Course Books on Reserve through NYU Libraries
Some of these books are in the D&T Course Books Google Folder. This folder also contains links to audiobooks and other resources you can use for projects.
- Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, by Virginia Eubanks
- Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, Edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, and Holly Yanacek
- Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, by Deirdre Cooper Owens
- The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist, by Ben Barres
- Diversity and Design: Understanding Hidden Consequences, Edited by Beth Tauke, Korydon Smith, Charles Davis
- Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, by Safiya Umoja Noble
- More Work For Mother: The Ironies Of Household Technology From The Open Hearth To The Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
- Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line by Amy E. Slaton
- Technology Choices: Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology By Diane E. Bailey and Paul M. Leonardi
- Dominance by Design: Technological Imperatives and Americaβs Civilizing Mission by Michael Adas
- Culture, Learning, and Technology: Research and Practice, Edited by Angela D. Benson, Roberto Joseph, Joi L. Moore
- A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet Washington
- The Senses: Design Beyond Vision (design book exploring inclusive and multisensory design practices across disciplines) by Ellen Lupton
- Design Meets Disability by Graham Pullin
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
- Medical Apartheid: the dark history of medical experimentation on Black Americans from colonial times to the present by Harriet A. Washington
Additional Course Books (Not in Course Reserves)
- Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information AgeΒ by Virginia Eubanks (MIT Press)
- Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of FuturityΒ by Laura Harjo
- Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education by Jay Timothy Dolmage
- This is why we can’t have nice things : mapping the relationship between online trolling and mainstream culture by Whitney Phillips
- The Inner History of Devices by Sherry Turkle
- Alone Together : Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherry Turkle
- The second self : computers and the human spirit by Sherry Turkle
- On the Outskirts of Engineering: Learning Identity, Gender, and Power through Engineering Practice by Karen Tonso
- Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher
- Mismatch: how inclusion shapes design by Kat Holmes
- You can also use NYU Libraries: Technology Databases and NYU’sΒ All Databases for your projects.
HOW YOU CAN SCORE MORE POINTS ON YOUR MIDTERM AND FINAL PROJECTS (Prof D will discuss in class)
- NYU Libraries: Technology Databases, All Databases
- NYU Research Guides
- NYU Citation Style Guide
- EasyBib for Google Docs
- NYU: Encyclopedias
- NYU: Google Scholar
- NYU: Accessing E-Resources Off Campus (has the proxy URL and bookmarklet)
- NYU Citation Style Guide
- NYU Research Guides
- Other useful Guides