[SIGCIS-Members] Good news

[Mara Mills]

Congrats on the book award, Mar!

The AI Now symposium and white paper were co-sponsored by the NYU Center
for Disability Studies, and I want to offer extra thanks to the two grad
students affiliated with the Center who drafted the report based on the
notes they took during the symposium -- Emily Lim Rogers and Marcel Salas.
And also to Meredith Whittaker of AI Now, the lead author and primary
organizer of the event. Otherwise, co-authorship was listed in alphabetical
order.

(And separately, the MCC Department at NYU is very excited to welcome
Whitney Pow to our growing team of historians of technology & media!)




Mara Mills | Associate Professor | Media, Culture, and Communication | New
York University
https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty/Mara_Mills
http://maramills.org/
Co-Director, NYU Center for Disability Studies
https://disabilitystudies.nyu.edu/



On Sun, Jan 5, 2020 at 10:11 PM Mar Hicks <mhicks1 at iit.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Given that we could all probably use some right about now, I thought I
> would share a roundup of recent good news involving several of our members.
> Each shows the impact studies of computing are having not just within our
> field but on the broader public discourse.
>
> 1) Safiya Noble’s Algorithms of Oppression, about the development of
> “digital redlining” and other racist online practices, was NYU’s
> bestselling book of the year and their top pick of all the books they’ve
> published this past decade.
>
> 2) Sarah Roberts’s recent book Behind the Screen, on the past, present,
> and future of commercial content moderation, was ranked one of the top 8
> books of 2019 on privacy by BookAuthority.
>
> 3) Meryl Alper’s work on AI, bias, and disability discrimination was cited
> in Elizabeth Warren’s disability plan. You can read the coauthored paper,
> published by the AI Now Institute, here:
> https://ainowinstitute.org/disabilitybiasai-2019.pdf
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>
> 4) Some good news of my own: Programmed Inequality received the 2019
> Herbert Baxter Adams Prize in European History from the American Historical
> Association this weekend.
>
> 5) In job news: Whitney Pow, who works on queer and trans video game
> studies and computing history has accepted a full time job at NYU. Congrats
> Whitney!
>
> 5) Lastly, several books have recently added to the important,
> swiftly-growing body of work on Blackness and digital technologies,
> including André Brock’s Distributed Blackness, Ruha Benjamin’s Race After
> Technology, Charlton McIlwain’s Black Software, and Clyde Ford’s Think
> Black (about his and his father’s time at IBM).
>
> Feel free to add your own or others’ good news to the list.
>
> Best,
>
> Mar
>
> ______________________
> Mar Hicks
> Associate Professor
> History of Technology
> Illinois Institute of Technology
> Chicago, IL USA
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