(and listening, and watching…)
A simple and non-definitive list of resources I find particularly influential on my own work as a critical digital thinker.
Reading
From least spicy to very spicy.
1. In the beginning… was the command line
Neal Stephensen
2. The Information
James Gleick
3. Metadata
Jeffrey Pomerantz
4. Program or be Programmed: 10 Commands for a Digital Age
Douglas Rushkoff
5. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Cathy O’Neil
6. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Shoshana Zuboff
Listening
1. Team Human podcast
Douglas Rushkoff
2. Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene podcast
Terry Greene
Watch
1. Coded Bias
A Shalini Kantayya film
That’s it. That’s the watch list.
Bonus list: Subscribe
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Algorithmic Justice League
- Reclaim Roundup (shameless plug 😉)
This is rad, and I’ve heard of pretty much nothing on this list, except Terry Greene’s podcast, which I agree is awesome. Very pumped to check some of this out!
I’ve been wanting to read Zuboff’s seminal The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, but the sheer size has kept me at bay. But now that I see it very spicy, I might have to relent, but findinf Neil Stephenson’s in the beginning was the command line freely available is beautiful as well, thanks for this list, it is an awesome primer.