Readings

REQUIRED READINGS 

• Reading 01: Ryan, Susan Elizabeth. “Chapter 01: Disparate Histories,” In Garments of Paradise. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014. <– link to NYU Library. Log in to access Ebook Central. 
• Reading 02: Schüll, Natasha Dow. “Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care.” BioSocieties 11.3 (2016): 317-333. <– PDF in Drive, NYU Only 
• Reading 03: Goodyear, V. A., Kerner, C., & Quennerstedt, M. 1966. (2019). “Young people’s uses of wearable healthy lifestyle technologies; surveillance, self-surveillance and resistance.” Sport, Education and Society, 24(3), 212–225.  <– PDF in Drive, NYU Only 
• Reading 04: Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts, “Chapter 09: Through Google-Colored Glass(es),” In Emotions, Technology, and Design, edited by Sharon Tettegah, and Safiya Noble, (San Diego: Elsevier Science & Technology), 2016. <– link to NYU Library. Log in to access Ebook Central. 
• Reading 05: Mann, Steve, Jason Nolan, and Barry Wellman. “Sousveillance: Inventing and using wearable computing devices for data collection in surveillance environments.” Surveillance & society 1.3 (2003): 331-355; AND Mann, Steve. “Wearable computing: Toward humanistic intelligence.” IEEE intelligent systems 16.3 (2001): 10-15.
• Reading 06: Lee Jones, Sara Nabil, Amanda McLeod, and Audrey Girouard. (2020). “Wearable Bits: Scaffolding Creativity with a Prototyping Toolkit for Wearable E-textiles.” In Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’20), 165–177. <– PDF in Drive, NYU Only 
• Reading 07: Jarrod Knibbe, Rachel Freire, Marion Koelle, and Paul Strohmeier. (2021). “Skill-Sleeves: Designing Electrode Garments for Wearability.” In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’21), 1-16. <– PDF in Drive, NYU Only 
• Reading 08: Heather Suzanne Woods, “Asking more of Siri and Alexa: feminine persona in service of surveillance capitalism,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 35, no. 4 (2018): 334-349 [HCI]. <– PDF in Drive, NYU Only 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS 

(The vast majority can be accessed through NYU Libraries online. If you’re struggling, feel free to ping me). 

• Nakamura, Lisa. “Indigenous circuits: Navajo women and the racialization of early electronic manufacture.” American Quarterly 66.4 (2014): 919-941.
• Benjamin, Ruha. “Chapter 3: Coded Exposure,” in Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the New Jim Code.” (Medford, MA: Polity Press), 2019.
• Phan, Thao, “Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness,” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 5, no. 1 (2019): 1–38. 
• D’Ignazio, Catherine, and Lauren F. Klein. Data feminism. (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2020.
• Rosner, Daniela. Critical Fabulations: Reworking the methods and margins of design. (Cambridge: MIT Press), 2020.
• Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why we Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, New York: Basic Books, 2011. (Chapter 6: “Love’s Labor Lost.”)
• Katherine Behar, Object-Oriented Feminism, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.
• Chang Geun Oh and Jaeheung Park, “From Mechanical Metamorphosis to Empathic Interaction: A Historical Overview of Robotic Creatures,” Journal of Human-Robot Interaction 3, no. 1 (2014) 4-19.
• Martina Mara and Markus Appel, “Science fiction reduces the eeriness of android robots: A field experiment,” Computers in Human Behavior, no. 48 (2015): 156–162.
• Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild: And Other Stories, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1995. (Science fiction)

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