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Big Tech rules our lives, and surveillance is part of their business model. These companies know about us, but what do we know about them? What are their beliefs? How do they influence global politics? What relationships do they have with law enforcement and intelligence agencies? Knowing Big Tech is the first step to taking our power back from them. This week, we'll hear from Rob Larsen, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and we'll talk about the big business of big data.
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list of big tech companies eg palantir;
 
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mckinsey data use//covid; tech worker organizing against sexual harassment; privacy as consent, abuse of big tech founders
 
  
 
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https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/05/uks-covid-19-health-data-contracts-with-google-and-palantir-finally-emerge/
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* Excerpt from Surveillance Valley: https://thebaffler.com/latest/oakland-surveillance-levine
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* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
 
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* https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
 
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* http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/commercial-trolling.feb2014.pdf
 
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* https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vex5/be-good-for-goodness-sake
 
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Another 540 Million Facebook Users Data Has Been Exposed by April Glaser
 
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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
 
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Regulators Around the World Are Circling Facebook
 
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YouTube’s Search Results for “Abortion” Show Exactly What Anti-Abortion Activists Want Women to See by April Glaser
 
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Facebook while black: Users call it getting 'Zucked,' say talking about racism is censored as hate speech
 
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Facebook Can't Clean Up Its Data Spill by April Glaser
 
  
 
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* Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.

Revision as of 22:41, 7 September 2020

Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies

Overview

Big Tech rules our lives, and surveillance is part of their business model. These companies know about us, but what do we know about them? What are their beliefs? How do they influence global politics? What relationships do they have with law enforcement and intelligence agencies? Knowing Big Tech is the first step to taking our power back from them. This week, we'll hear from Rob Larsen, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and we'll talk about the big business of big data.

Readings

Guest lecturer

Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley

Discussion

TBD

Tasks

  • Lecture, discussion forum, and final project work.
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