Announcements

• You are still welcome to share D&T Phase 2 suggestions through this form. Thank you!
• In case you missed it: Phase 2 Syllabus Updates
• Midterm projects and grades: any questions?
• Phase 2 Recordings require a password, to help protect participants’ privacy.
• Phase 2 Required Assignments, since they are now required, will be compiled on a single page. They’ll still be at the bottom of session posts, too.
• Poll: Google Scholar, Interest in continuing midterm topic

Agenda

• 2:00: Announcements
• 2:10: Toisha Tucker, conceptual artist and writer. See bottom of this page for full bio. Happy Trans Day of Visibility!
• 3:00: HOW YOU CAN SCORE MORE POINTS ON YOUR MIDTERM AND FINAL PROJECTS, Part 1: Notes on Research
  • NYU Research Guides
    • NYU Citation Style Guide
      • EasyBib for Google Docs
    • NYU: Encyclopedias
      • https://pitt.libguides.com/wikipedia
      • http://libguides.merrimack.edu/wikipedia_beware
    • NYU: Google Scholar
    • NYU: Advanced Google References and Resources
    • NYU: Accessing E-Resources Off Campus (has the proxy URL and bookmarklet)
  • Other useful tips
    • PEN America’s Guide on COVID-19 and Disinformation

Assignments (required)

• REQUIRED Phase 2, Blog Post #3:
  1. In Toisha Tucker’s presentation, they discuss a shift in their work “towards exploring our empathetic and anthropomorphic relationship with technologies in our homes and as a whole. Coronavirus had been an interesting source of threads for that.” Chose and discuss a work(s) from their presentation that reflect this shift. Here are links to some of the external works that came up during the discussion:
     • Alone Together by Sherry Turkle
     • The Singularity is Near by Ray Kurzweil
     • What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
     • Mt. Fuji with Flowers by David Hockney
     • Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum
     • Sex Workers using tech for activism:
       • Speak Out About Coronavirus (Them.Us)
       • Sex Workers Outreach Project: Brooklyn and LA (Instagram)
  2. Please use Google Scholar (or any of the resources discussed during the “Notes on Research” part of today’s session) to find a scholarly journal article related to your area of research. Copy the MLA citation and add that to your blog post.
• Please also take a quick look at these links in advance of Thursday’s guest speaker sessions:
  • National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled
  • Dibner Exhibit: Touch This Page!
    • Northeastern News coverage
    • Northeastern University Library What’s New podcast episode on Touch This Page and another on Enabling Engineering which is a student group at Northeastern that was involved in designing the 3D models included in the website and exhibition.  

Extra Credit Options

Watch, listen, and/or read one of the following and discuss it on your blog for extra credit. I’m currently compiling these into an Extra Credit page, but it’s still under construction!

• Webinar: How coronavirus may disrupt the unfair division of labor at home. (New America, Friday 4/3 @ 1pm)
• Webinar: The 1918 Pandemic and Immigration Policy (New School, Tuesday 4/14 @ 1:30pm)
• Reading: CMD-IT interviews with women of color in computer science Fatimah Richmond and Andrea Delgado-Olson
• Reading: PEN Online Field Harassment Manual
• Reading: Four Data Trends in Gender, Diversity, and Security That You Should Know About (New America Research article)
• Reading: It’s Not Just the Content, It’s the Business Model: Democracy’s Online Speech Challenge (New America Research article on social media, advertising, algorithms, and democracy)
• Reading: Internet is ‘Not Working for Women and Girls‘ (Guardian UK) and New ITU data reveal growing Internet uptake but a widening digital gender divide