Hi all, Slow on my listserv traffic as always but in response to Troy's q, I wanted to share this MIT teaching resource, "Case Studies in Ethical and Social Responsibilities of Computing." Geared towards teaching CS but with (I'd think) utility in historical and social studies of computing courses too. There are classroom exercises for most or all of the entries. https://mit-serc.pubpub.org (I published an edited excerpt of Hacking Diversity there last summer, https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/hacking-technology-hacking-communities/relea... .) Apologies for reposting if the resource went over the list earlier! best c ** Christina Dunbar-Hester New book! *Hacking Diversity* <https://press.princeton.edu/titles/14235.html>, Princeton U. Press & less-new book *Low Power to the People* <http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/low-power-people>, MIT Press On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 1:38 PM Hansen Hsu <hansnhsu@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Shreeharsh,
I’m honored you’ve included my AI blog post in your syllabus!
Best, Hansen
On Oct 27, 2021, at 11:10 AM, Shreeharsh Kelkar <shreeharsh@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Troy,
I've been teaching a course called "The Social Life of Computing" for about four years now and there are three textbooks that I've found really useful:
William Aspray et al.'s classic "*Computer: The History of the Information Machine*" is still my go-to source. I often assign parts of it for students to read but it helps me bring in contextual information in the lectures. Thomas Haigh was kind enough to let me read a preprint of his new book with Paul Ceruzzi and while I didn't assign any of it to students, it helped me a lot as background reading. Finally, I also highly recommend Thomas Misa's *Leonardo to the Internet *which has only one chapter on computing proper but again, it was invaluable to me as a resource. Again, I didn't assign much to the students from the latter two but I could see myself doing that in future iterations.
For readings, I tend to rely on magazine articles a lot more than academic texts. In that respect, I've often relied on articles from IEEE Spectrum and CHM. (I ask students to read additional texts for their papers and these are often academic articles).
You can see some of this in my latest syllabus <https://shreeharshkelkar.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Syllabus-ISF100J-Spring2021.pdf> for the course, if it helps. It lists both academic articles (often grouped under the "Of further interest" heading) and the more journalistic ones.
Last, but not the least, I made the course asynchronous last spring and therefore had a chance to reinvent my lectures as a podcast. (My inspirations were two history podcasts that I particularly love: Mike Duncan's Revolutions <https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/revolutions_podcast/>, a podcast on political revolutions, and Karina Longworth's You Must Remember This <http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/>, a podcast on Hollywood history.) I put up my lectures on SoundCloud here: https://soundcloud.com/user-118533348/sets/the-social-life-of-computing. They are meant to be used, so if you find them useful, please use them and let me know!
Hope some of this is useful. If you can share your syllabus when you have it, that would be wonderful. And of course, it goes without saying that this course is heavily indebted to the conversations I've been able to listen to here on SIGCIS.
Best, Shreeharsh _______________ Shreeharsh Kelkar http://www.shreeharshkelkar.net
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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:27:06 +0000 From: Troy Astarte <t.k.astarte@swansea.ac.uk> To: members <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] Seeking book recommendations for teaching Message-ID: <B5BCCE1C-6C7E-48C3-9EE1-ADB92771E621@swansea.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear SIG:CIS,
I have recently started a teaching role and have the opportunity to develop taught content from scratch. I want to include a significant influence from history of computing, history of technology, and STS?topics, approaches, methods. I?m looking for recommendations of books and other works to help in this: either for inclusion on reading lists, or to help me prepare more effective material. For example, I would be very grateful for a comprehensive and accessible book on the history of a particular technology, or a monograph on diversifying curricula. No suggestions are too obvious. Even if I already know them, others on-list may not.
Thanks in advance!
Best,
Dr. Troy Kaighin Astarte (they/them)
Lecturer, Computer Science Swansea University
For students: my office hours are Wednesday 1500?1700 and you can enter my personal Zoom room during that time.