Announcements

• Group Prototypes are OKAY for Midterm and Final. Partner papers are OKAY for the Final.
• Attendance policy will start on WEDNESDAY.
• NYU Prototyping Fund ($500) Applications Due February 8
• NYU Center for the Humanities Event Calendar
• NYU Center for Data Science NLP & Text-As-Data Speaker Series
• Silicon Harlem meetup
• NYU Student Diversity
• NYU MLK Week Event Calendar
• NYU Stonewall 50th Anniversary Calendar
• NYU “One Zone” Trainings
• Out in Tech and Start Out meetups
  NYU Community Screening: Crime + Punishment
• A Death of One’s Own: Literature, Law, and the Right to Die
• For Seniors: Tandon Professional Leadership Academy
• ProPublica Diversity Scholarship
• New York City Digital Humanities Week
• Recurse Center Localhost Lighting Talks

Agenda

• Identity, Diversity, Technology: Your Findings
  
• Your Technologies, Your Identities
• Intro to Diversity and Medical Technology
  • The Belmont Report
  • UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • The Problem of Race Medicine
  • Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects For Women

Assignments

• Due Wednesday 2/6:
  • If you haven’t already, finish the assignments from last week. Starting on Wednesday, every class session in which your blog is not listed on the class site will lead to a 0.5 point deduction from your midterm grade.
  • Blog Post: Pick a piece of pop culture that you think propagates the biases that derived from historical medical discrimination. Post a link (e.g. a YouTube link) on your blog. (Hint: Medical dramas and superhero stories can be a good place to start.) We will have a viewing and discussion party on Wednesday.
• Due Monday 2/11:
  • Blog Post. Do some internet searching (or other research) on the intersection of the technology with your partner’s salient identity. Write a blog post on what you find–do you think it’s relevant to your exercise partner? Please cite URLs and other resources that you find.