January eBook Deals
January 9, 2022
For Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 17 and Data Privacy Day on January 28, NYU Press presents January eBook deals to inform and educate readers on these important… READ MORE
Category: Science & Technology
Should We Own Our Data? The Limits of Privacy as Information Control
January 29, 2019
—Nora A. Draper
When our world is becoming more and more like Black Mirror, privacy as information control becomes more prevalent and begs the question: who should own what?
A Climate Change Denier’s Perfect Storm
October 16, 2017
— Antony Alumkal
In the past few months, we have witnessed the devastation caused by climate change induced severe weather. Anthony Alumkal critiques the campaign of anti-environmentalism spearheaded by E. Calvin Beisner and his organization, the Cornwall Alliance, for it is one that the planet cannot afford.
We Need Algorithmic Transparency
May 15, 2017
—Kelly Gates
Understanding what’s inside the black box of cloud computing matters. We need transparency in the weird experience of being human.
From the March for Science to an Abolitionist Science
April 20, 2017
—Britt Rusert
An abolitionist science moves beyond generic defenses of science in an age of populist skepticism and backlash, requiring an evaluation of different types of science and an excavation of their specific relationships to forms of power and exploitation.
Don’t Bring a Test Tube to a Gun Fight
April 19, 2017
—Antony Alumkal
The March for Science is a response to politically motivated efforts to undermine scientific research and ignore scientific evidence when crafting public policy. Science is under increasingly heavy political fire, and the March for Science indicates that scientists plan to fire back.
Available, Accessible, Usable
March 28, 2017
—Elizabeth Ellcessor
Creating accessible spaces, technologies, and content often entails augmenting, altering, or otherwise working around the assumption that all users will have a “normal” able body.
More Than a Symbolic Change: iOS 10 and the Accessible Icon Emoji
September 7, 2016
—Elizabeth Ellcessor
The revised accessibility symbol emoji introduced in iOS 10 is not the familiar static wheelchair symbol. Its inclusion demonstrates how art and activism can influence culture, industries, and policies with major implications for access and participation in broader society.
Zika and the Limits of Biomedical Fixes
March 4, 2016
There are reasons to see the rise of Zika not as another problem in need of a biomedical fix but as a sign of the limits of biomedical fixes.
On Biomedicine and its Limits: An Interview with Joseph E. Davis
February 5, 2016
—Joseph E. Davis [This piece originally appeared on Social Trends Institute.] Q: The title of your book is To Fix or to Heal: Patient Care, Public Health, and the Limits… READ MORE
Six Classics of Queer Literature