Humane Technology reading lists

Thanks for psoting the post here, metasj! I’ll update the list with the other suggestions the next days.

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As a neuroscience geek, I’ll suggest a few things that I think are relevant:
Behave by Robert Sapolsky
Social: Why Our Brains are Wired to Connect by Matthew Lieberman
Connected by Nicholas Cristakas
Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian

Also of note: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/608986/forget-killer-robotsbias-is-the-real-ai-danger/amp/

And if you’d like a good, hilarious fictional romp, try I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek.

Also please check out SUXS.es if interested in this topic from the design side.

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Found this alternative view on the ‘addiction’ aspect of social media on the RescueTime blog…

This looks interesting! But it has at least one UX issue :slight_smile: After filling in the form it ask for creation of a TypeForm… not knowing what this means I pushed the top-right menu, and… it throws me back to the 1st form. Hope they have received my data :frowning:

Yes they also break down many of their lessons into bite sized videos.

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Funny you mention games @valere :slight_smile:
While searching for the Brainwash Talk video of Kate Raworth, I found this one on gamification:

Gamification to improve our world: Yu-kai Chou at TEDxLausanne

Gamification for Humane Tech uses…

edit: I have created a separate topic for all things gamification on this forum: Gamification for Good

This - while not dealing with Humane Tech solutions - constitutes some very interesting reading on the internal processes of Facebook, describing in detail their problems of the last 2 years, and reveals the company culture and decision-making processes…

Great resource and reading list from Culture Reframed for porn around kids and teenagers:

https://parents.culturereframed.org
https://parents.culturereframed.org/table-of-contents/

All free resources for parents.

Interesting alternatives for Twitter (i.e. Mastodon) and Facebook (i.e. Diaspora)…

Read more on the advantages of decentralization in this CHT thread: Towards the Vision of The Decentralized Web

https://hackernoon.com/your-facebook-data-is-creepy-as-hell-319ae47117e6

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Well… it couldn’t get more on-topic than with this article by Mr. Dan Hon :slight_smile:

There is a lot in here, but the gist is this:

"I’ve made this case above, but I feel it’s important enough to make again: at a high level, I believe that we need to:

  1. Clearly decide what kind of society we want; and then
  2. Design and deliver the technologies that forever get us closer to achieving that desired society."

(btw. this fits with my earlier argument for a deeper foundation than just tech for this community along the vision of Kate Raworth)

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I can’t wait to read this in the morning… Discovering this website at midnight was an awful idea…

As a local slactivist with little to no tech knowledge. How would you start to spread the message? Short of a manic Facebook post (My usual tactic).

I want to yell it at everyone, but I don’t want to weaken the message and the work you are all putting in.

How do I be a productive promoter of this content?

I just preordered Irresistible by Adam Alter, but there is a plethora of tasty reads up on Edge.org (an amazing community, perhaps forming a bond here would be very productive)

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Strongly recommend Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Noble.

&Check out the buzz on Twitter–fascinating back and forth between those who feel tech has no politics and those who do…

Also recommend
Paul Dourish The Stuff of Bits


Tarleton Gillespie
http://opentranscripts.org/transcript/relevance-of-algorithms/
Langdon Winner

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This link was shared to me by the team at https://eelo.io - who are developing a Google-less Android version…

The amount of data any Android device is collecting at any time is astounding :frowning:

These two articles have been extremely helpful to me ask I have delved deeper into this conversation. Tom Chatfield approaches this from a philosophical angle.

Books:
I’ve found these books really fascinating and would recommend them highly.

Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. New York: Penguin Press, 2015.

Simanowski, Roberto. Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Verbeek, Peter-Paul. Moralizing Technology: Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Verbeek is one my favourite authors on the philosophy of technology.

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Langdon Winner is brilliant. In this article he famously critiques racist bridges as a form of technological bias.

For an older look at another “humane tech” movement, I would recommend Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher.

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For a more archival space to publish and organize readings, try the Time Well Spent wiki:
https://tws.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

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There’s a lot of short stories by George Saunders that work here. Pleased to see his work mentioned here.

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Hi all,
there are so many books to choose from but here are some of my favourites that are align with this subject:

Postdigital Aesthetics: Art, Computation and Design - David M. Berry & Michael Dieter

The Bright Labyrinth: Sex, Dead and Design in the Digital Regime - Ken Hollings

Nature’s Due: Healing our Fragmented Culture - Brian Goodwin

Soil : Soul : Society - A New Trinity for our Time - Satish Kumar

Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked - Adam Alter

Enjoy!!