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Officially finished the second semester @TUM_STS!
Was asked recently: "What would you say are the most impactful pieces you've read so far?"
To mark this accomplishment of completing the first year of graduate school - here is an #STS inspired reading list (12 total)
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Was asked recently: "What would you say are the most impactful pieces you've read so far?"
To mark this accomplishment of completing the first year of graduate school - here is an #STS inspired reading list (12 total)
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They are broken up into two broad themes:
- Most impactful to me personally (First 6)
- Most impactful and now foundational to #STS as a discipline (after the person graduated from the field) (Second 6)
*Just my opinion, so eager to hear what others might choose*
- Most impactful to me personally (First 6)
- Most impactful and now foundational to #STS as a discipline (after the person graduated from the field) (Second 6)
*Just my opinion, so eager to hear what others might choose*
'A clean kill?: the role of Patriot in the Gulf War' by #STS icons the late Trevor Pinch @STSCornell & Harry Collins of @cardiffuni
"but to see that this fog was just a dense version of the fog through which #golemscience always has to strain to see."
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"but to see that this fog was just a dense version of the fog through which #golemscience always has to strain to see."
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On this day in 1989, architect John Louis Wilson, Jr. passed away. we should celebrate his life and career, especially in New Orleans and NYC:
(a thread, 1/14)
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(a thread, 1/14)
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Born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1898, Wilson moved to New Orleans to attend Gilbert Academy, a Black Methodist Episcopal high school on St. Charles near what's now Jefferson Ave, Uptown.
Gilbert was tied to New Orleans University, founded in 1873 during Reconstruction (2/14)
Gilbert was tied to New Orleans University, founded in 1873 during Reconstruction (2/14)
(the site is now De La Salle High School, a predominantly White Catholic institution built in 1949 after the demolition of Gilbert's epic 1886 building. @nolacampanella writes about how that happened here: richcampanella.com/wp-content/uplā¦) (3/14)
A brief thread on #ADA30 and the future of design: Disability justice is foundational to #designjustice. Ch. 2 of Design Justice begins with the disability activist slogan "Nothing about us without us." (Freely available here: design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/cfohnud7/rā¦)
Figure 2.1, at the start of Ch.2, is the cover illustration for āNothing About Us Without Us: Developing Innovative
Technologies For, By and With Disabled Personsā by David Werner, 1998,
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Technologies For, By and With Disabled Personsā by David Werner, 1998,
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In the chapter, I argue that employment diversity is important, but that ultimately, #designjustice challenges us to push beyond the demand for more equitable allocation of professional design jobs.
Yes. & the path to better algos has to involve those who will be most likely to be harmed by algorithmic decisionmaking IN THEIR DESIGN AND ONGOING EVALUATION #designjustice
I feel like there is an additional dimension of this debate that has to be constantly highlighted: it's not just 'yes algos, no algos, better algos,' it's also: who gets to design,scope, evaluate their use? #designjustice
#designjustice principle 1: "We use design to sustain, heal, and empower our communities, as well as to seek liberation from exploitative and oppressive systems."
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