LFI Course Materials 4/Week ten
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Contents
Week 8: The Global Power of Big Tech Companies
- September 10th 9 - 11 Pacific/12 - 2 Eastern Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
Overview
Readings
April Glaser readings
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
- https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers
- http://www.uncomputing.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/commercial-trolling.feb2014.pdf
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/59vex5/be-good-for-goodness-sake
How Amazon automatically tracks and fires warehouse workers for ‘productivity’ When the real threat is worker surveillance, not the robot apocalypse The inequalities of workplace surveillance Coronavirus is a labor crisis, and a general strike may be next Workplace monitoring and surveillance (optional long read)
Guest lecturer
Rob Larson, author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley
