Announcements for Class

• When you arrive, please open The Tech You’re Grappling With and add your technology to it.
• Please check: Medical Bias Media: Screening Order and Links
• Student Resource Suggestions: Please check that your resource is in the list.
• Please keep adding to Keywords throughout class today.

Agenda

• Keywords Scribe, Marker Person
• Recaps
  • Medical Bias Media: Screening Order and Links
    • Who is perpetuating the bias? What is their salient identity?
    • Who is at the receiving end of the bias? What is their salient identity?
    • How is the bias being perpetuated?
    • Could the issue of bias have been avoided?
  • Taking Care of Brooklyn
  • Syllabus
    • Reminder about absences
  • The Tech You’re Grappling With
• Today’s class: Work Tech
  • Fabrication Lecture
  • Intersectionality 
    • Video: Kimberlé Crenshaw and Feminist Frequency
  • Unions and Global Cultures 

Assignments

• Blog Post Revision, Due Thursday 2/13. Please add detail to your “Tech You’re Grappling With” blog post. Feel free to make a new post for this if you like. If you change your tech, be sure to change it in the class spreadsheet. Make sure that your post answers these questions:
  • WHAT is the name of the technology?
  • WHICH use sector category does this technology fall into: Medical, Work, School, Home, Social, Public/City, Political, etc.?
  • WHAT is a 1-2 sentence description of the technology?
  • WHY was the technology created?
  • WHO makes the technology? Name companies, research groups, individuals, etc.
  • WHO is the audience for the technology?
  • WHEN was/is the technology made? Briefly describe the historical timeline for this technology.
  • WHERE is the technology made?
  • WHERE is the technology used?
  • HOW is the technology used and/or made? You can use technical terminology if appropriate. You can also include links to technical documentation (e.g. datasheets) if appropriate.
  • DIVERSITY CONSIDERATIONS: Do you observe any issues of bias, or any other issues named in our class Keywords doc, that pertain to this technology?
• Reading, Due Thursday 2/13. Please skim the Abridged Field Guide to Human Centered Design. We will use this guide in the coming weeks.
• Blog Post, Due Tuesday 2/18. Choose ONE of the following prompts for your post:
  • Mass Manufacturing: Read America’s Assembly Line, Chapter 7. How do aspects of race, gender, ability, and other kinds of identities play out in 1960-70s automotive manufacturing? How does it relate to the concept of “Intersectionality?”
  • Desktop Manufacturing: Watch Print the Legend (see trailer here) and read Questioning the 3D Printing Revolution, an article written by a former student after a previous class field trip to MakerBot. How do the two pieces of media complement each other? How do they conflict with each other?
  • Unions and Global Cultures: Read Google & NLRB (Los Angeles Times), Google & NLRB (onlabor.org blog), and The Chinese Lingerie Vendors of Egypt (New Yorker).

External Announcements and Links

• 2/12: NYU Center for Data Science Speaker: Fake News on Twitter
• 2/19: Afrofuturism x CUNY: Join us for a conversation about building a new and inclusive future of technology for People of Color.
• 2/27 & 3/26: NAACP Fireside Chat Series: 21st Century Education for All
• Due 3/16: Interaction and Design for Children R&D Competition.
• Generation Citizen seeks college student democracy coaches.
• Join CMEP, the Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation, and NYU Art in Public Places for an intergenerational panel conversation on multiracial identity. A group exhibition of photographic artwork that highlights the experiences of bi/multiracial identity will be on show in the Kimmel 8th floor hallways and will be featured in an event, “MIXED Blood: A Conversation on Multiracial Identity” on March 3rd, 2020. We ask for works from current NYU students that will appropriate the photographic works of the artist, Cyjo. Works should focus on the visual representation of the bi/multiracial identity.
• IJNet: Determining when a medical study is newsworthy and true.
• In the wake of the Oscars: Mediaversity Reviews
• When Bias Is Coded Into Our Technology (NPR)