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
- NYU: Google Scholar
- NYU: Advanced Google References and Resources
- NYU: Accessing E-Resources Off Campus (has the proxy URL and bookmarklet)
- NYU Citation Style Guide
- Other useful tips
- NYU Research Guides
Assignments (required)
- REQUIRED Phase 2, Blog Post #3:
- 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)
- 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.
- 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:
- 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