"People who take this class always say there is too much reading. I don't care."

Here is our reading list for Social Analysis of Computing, taught by Professor Crooks. I love 100% of this.

• Ali, M. (2014). Towards a decolonial computing. In: Ambiguous Technologies: Philosophical Issues, Practical Solutions, Human Nature, International Society of Ethics and Information Technology, pp. 28–35.
• Andrejevic, M. (2009). Surveillance in the Digital Enclosure. In S. Magnet & K. Gates (Eds.), New Media of Surveillance (pp. 1–23). Routledge.
• Aparicio, C. And Aikin, S. Co-directors), T. (Director). (1990). The salt mines: Latina transwomen in New York [Film]. Frameline. https://www.kanopy.com/en/uci/video/199637
• Ball, K. S., Phillips, D. J., Green, N., & Koskela, H. (2009). Surveillance Studies needs Gender and Sexuality. Surveillance & Society, 6(4), 352–355. https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v6i4.3266
• Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Duke University Press Books.
• Barlow, J. P. (1996). A declaration of the independence of cyberspace. The Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• Bayard, P. (2009). How to talk about books you haven’t read. New York: Bloomsbury USA. [or a review: https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/McInerney-t.html]
• Benjamin, R. (2016). Catching our breath: Critical race STS and the carceral imagination. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2, 145.
• Berg, A.-J., & Lie, M. (1995). Feminism and constructivism: Do artifacts have gender? Science, Technology, & Human Values, 20(3), 332–351.
• Borges, J. L. (1998). The Library of Babel. In A. Hurley (Trans.), Collected fictions. New York: Penguin.
• Browne, S. (2010). Digital Epidermalization: Race, Identity and Biometrics. Critical Sociology, 36(1), 131–150. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920509347144
• Burrell, J. (2016). How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms. Big Data & Society, 3(1), 1–12.
• Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The Atlantic, 176(1), 101–108.
• Butler, J. (2016). Gender trouble. In W. Longhofer & D. Winchester (Eds.), Social Theory Re-Wired (pp. 798–813). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315775357-39
• Cifor, M. and Garcia, P. (2020). Gendered by design: A duoethnographic study of personal fitness tracking systems. ACM Transactions of Social Computing 2 (4), 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3364685
• Combahee River Collective. (1980). A Black feminist statement. Women’s Studies Quarterly, 42(3/4), 271–280.
• Craib, R. (2025). The private fiefdom as planetary project. Los Angeles Review of Books. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-private-fiefdom-as-planetary-project/
• Edwards, P. (2005). How to read a book, v5.0. University of Michigan School of Information. Retrieved from https://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtoread.pdf
• Feenberg, A. (2017). Critical theory of technology and STS. Thesis Eleven, 138(1), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513616689388
• Fortun, K. (2019). Questioning a text. In Fortun, K. (ed.). Ethnographic methods Ph.D seminar. Department of Anthropology. University of California, Irvine.
• Garba, T., & Sorentino, S. (2020). Slavery is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor.” Antipode, 52(3), 764–782. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12615
• Heywood, P. (2017). The Ontological Turn. In R. Campos & F. Stein (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology (pp. 1–12). University of Cambridge. http://doi.org/10.29164/17ontology
• Introna, L. D. (2006). Maintaining the reversibility of foldings: Making the ethics (politics) of information technology visible. Ethics and Information Technology, 9(1), 11–25.
• Irani, L. (2023). Encountering innovation, countering innovation. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.2303
• Irani, L., Vertesi, J., Dourish, P., Philip, K., & Grinter, R. E. (2010). Postcolonial computing: A lens on design and development. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’10.
• King, J. L. (2004). Rob Kling and the Irvine School. The Information Society, 20(2), 97–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240490422978
• Kitchin, R. (2024). Critical data studies: An A to Z guide to concepts and methods. Polity.
• Latour, B. (2000). The Berlin key or how to do words with things. In P. Graves-Brown (Ed.), Matter, Materiality, and Modern Culture (pp. 10–21).
• Licklider, J. C. R. (1960). Man-Computer symbiosis. IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, HFE(1), 4–11.
• Light, J. (1999). When computers were women. Technology and Culture 40 (3), 455–483.
• M’charek, A., & Irene, van O. (2019). What about race? In A. Blok, I. Farías, & C. Roberts (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (1st ed., pp. 235–245). Routledge.
• Marks, P. (2005). Imagining Surveillance: Utopian Visions and Surveillance Studies. Surveillance & Society, 3(2/3), 222–239.
• McGranahan, C. (2016). Theorizing Refusal: An Introduction. Cultural Anthropology, 31(3), 319–325. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca31.3.01
• McMillan Cottom, T. (2020). Where platform capitalism and racial capitalism meet: The sociology of race and racism in the digital society. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 6(4), 441–449. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649220949473
• Michael, M. (2017). Actor Network Theory. In B. S. Turner (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory (pp. 1–4). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0002
• Mol, A. (1999). Ontological politics. A word and some questions. The Sociological Review, 47(1_suppl), 74–89.
• Morrison, M. D. (2024). Blacksound: Making race and popular music in the United States. University of California Press. https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1525/9780520390607/html
• Munoz, J. E. (1997). “The White to Be Angry”: Vaginal Davis’s Terrorist Drag. Social Text, 52/53, 80.
• Nakamura, L. (2014). Indigenous circuits: Navajo women and the racialization of early electronic manufacture. American Quarterly, 66 (4), 919–941.
• Nelson, A., Thompson, C., Van Wichelen, S., Rohde, J., Barkan, J., Sims, C., & Graizbord, D. (2023). Science and the State. Public Culture, 35(3), 279–288. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10742439
• Nelson, M. (2022). How to read journal articles like a professor.
• Newman, M. Z. (2017). Atari age: The emergence of video games in America. MIT Press. https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/2282/Atari-AgeThe-Emergence-of-Video-Games-in-America
• Noble, S. U. (2017). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism [video].
• Ogbonnaya-Ogburu, I. F., Smith, A. D. R., To, A., & Toyama, K. (2020). Critical race theory for HCI. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–16.
• Paret, M., & Levenson, Z. (2024). Two racial capitalisms: Marxism, domination, and resistance in Cedric Robinson and Stuart Hall. Antipode, 56(5), 1802–1829. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13054
• Pearl, A., Pollack, M. E., Riskin, E., Wolf, E., Thomas, B., & Wu, A. (1990). Becoming a computer scientist. Communications of the ACM, 33(11), 47–57. https://doi.org/10.1145/92755.92757
• Pinch, T. J., & Bijker, W. E. (1984). The social construction of facts and artefacts: or How the sociology of science and the sociology of technology might benefit each other. Social Studies of Science, 14(3), 399–441.
• Poster, M. (1996). Databases as Discourse; or, Electronic Interpellations. In D. Lyon & E. Zuriek (Eds.), Computers, Surveillance, and Privacy (Minnesota Archive Edition, pp. 175–192). University of Minnesota Press.
• Rankin, J. (2014). Toward a History of Social Computing: Children, Classrooms, Campuses, and Communities. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 36(2), 88–88.
• Russell, S. (1986). The social construction of artefacts: A response to Pinch and Bijker. Social Studies of Science, 16(2), 331–346.
• Sadowski, J. (2019). When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction. Big Data & Society, 6(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951718820549
• Seaver, N. (2017). Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data & Society, 4(2), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717738104
• Sharpe, C. (2024). The shapes of grief: Witnessing the unbearable. The Yale Review 112 (3). https://yalereview.org/article/christina-sharpe-shapes-of-grief
• Somerville, S. (2020). Queer. In B. Burgett & G. Hendler (Eds.), Keywords for American cultural studies (Third edition, pp. 203–206). New York University Press.
• Spencer-Notabartolo, L. (2020). Marika Pfefferkorn: Oral histories of surveillance [Interview]. Our Data Bodies Oral History Project. https://www.odbproject.org/2020/12/14/marika-pfefferkorn-oral-histories-of-surveillance/
• Spiel, K., Keyes, O., Walker, A. M., DeVito, M. A., Birnholtz, J., Brulé, E., Light, A., Barlas, P., Hardy, J., Ahmed, A., Rode, J. A., Brubaker, J. R., & Kannabiran, G. (2019). Queer(ing) HCI: Moving Forward in Theory and Practice. Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–4.
• Star, S. L. (1990). Power, Technology and the Phenomenology of Conventions: On being Allergic to Onions. The Sociological Review, 38 (1_suppl), 26–56.
• Stewart-Winter, T. (2023). Reading skills workshop for history grad students [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehB_CNpVyJ8
• Suchmann, L. (1995). Making work visible. Communications of the ACM, 38(9), 60–64c.
• Tuck, E., & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1). https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18630
• van Dijck, J. (2014). Datafication, dataism and dataveillance: Big Data between scientific paradigm and ideology. Surveillance & Society, 12(2), 197–208.
• Wajcman, J. (2010). Feminist theories of technology. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(1), 143–152.
• Weinberg, D. (2014). Contemporary social constructionism: Key themes. Temple University Press. Chapter 1.
• Wells, H. G. (1938). The idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia. In World Brain. New York, NY: Doubleday. https://sherlock.ischool.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html
• Whelchel, R. J. (1986). Is technology neutral? IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, 5(4), 3–8. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTAS.1986.5010049
• Winner, L. (1980). Do artifacts have politics? Daedalus, 109(1), 121–13.