Algorithmic Literacy, with Barabra Fister from Project Information Literacy
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#WeMakeMedia Season 2: New and Digital Literacies
Episode 4: Algorithmic Literacy, with Barbara Fister
In this episode I speak with librarian Barbara Fister from Project Information Literacy about their study Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms. We discuss the growing role of algorithms in our daily lives, why the architects of these systems matter, and how the move to online learning in expanding student awareness of surveillance culture. Naturally, Barabara named many great book names on subjects discussed, see the show notes for a great reading list on these topics and more.
Project Information Literacy (PIL) is a nonprofit research institute that conducts ongoing, national studies on what it is like being a student in the digital age. In the past decade, PIL has surveyed and interviewed almost 21,000 U.S. college students and released 12 groundbreaking research reports that examine how they interact with information resources for school, for life, for work, and most recently, for engaging with the news. All of PIL’s work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Barbara Fister, librarian, writer and friendly curmudgeon, co-authored Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms in her position as PIL’s Scholar-in-Residence, alongside Senior Researcher Margy MacMillan, and PIL’s Executive Director and Principal Investigator Alison J. Head
Project Information Literacy website: www.projectinfolit.org
Project Information Literacy on twitter : @projectinfolit
Barbara Fister : https://barbarafister.net/
Show notes and related links:
Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms: Student Experiences with News and Information, and the Need for Change, Head, Alison J.; Fister, Barbara; MacMillan, Margy, Project Information Literacy - https://projectinfolit.org/publications/algorithm-study/
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
Was software responsible for the financial crisis? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/oct/16/computing-software-financial-crisis
Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651
Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff - - https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/
Software that monitors students during tests perpetuates inequality and violates their privacy, Shea Swauger - https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/08/07/1006132/software-algorithms-proctoring-online-tests-ai-ethics/
Google and advertising: digital capitalism in the context of Post-Fordism, the reification of language, and the rise of fake news - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-017-0021-4
The History of Google Ads 20 Years in the Making (Infographic)
https://instapage.com/blog/google-adwords-infographic
How Bezos built his data machine, Leo Kelion, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data
Automating InequalityHow High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor, Virginia Eubanks - https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250074317
Machine Bias: There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks, by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica - https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing
Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble - http://algorithmsofoppression.com/
Edward Snowden NSA FILES: DECODED, By EWEN MACASKILL and GABRIEL DANCE - https://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/snowden-nsa-files-surveillance-revelations-decoded
The Fiduciary Model of Privacy, Jack M. Balkin, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3700087
VPN Usage Surges During COVID-19 Crisis [Infographic], Niall McCarthy
Failure to Disrupt, By Justin Reich - https://failuretodisrupt.com/
CONspirituality: A weekly study of converging right-wing conspiracy theories and faux-progressive wellness utopianism - https://conspirituality.net/about/