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There are many fields that study/critique tech: Science & Technology studies, media & comm studies, Schools of Info mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/opi… pic.twitter.com/dM3uZVz6PS
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Stuart Geiger
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This is something I hear over and over in STEM: a recognition of these problems as social, but a belief that nobody has studied it
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Stuart Geiger
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There are hundreds of papers on the "critical algorithm studies" reading list, much less the social study of tech socialmediacollective.org/reading-lists/…
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Stuart Geiger
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What book? I do think this is the perennial problem of the social/humanistic study of science and tech
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Stuart Geiger
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And b/c Berkeley was called out, we have a great algorithm studies group across @CSTMSBerkeley @BerkeleyISchool @UCBIDS @SocSciMatrix sites.google.com/site/algorithm…
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Andrew R. Schrock
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I mean, duh, yes higher ed wants to combine education for specific occupations alongside research on just these juicy ethical questions. It might be a better route to longevity.
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Stuart Geiger
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Agreed. We undersell the social sciences and humanities as ways to study tech as instances of things we've been studying for a while
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