Sociotechnocanonicon/2020 Planning

This space is for adding ideas for the 2020 Sociotechnocanonicon.

Proposal

We'll start with these classics:

[Week 1 / of July 6]

Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-3)

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, Ellie

[Week 2 / of July 13]

Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (second half: Chapters 4-6)

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, Ellie

[Week 3 / of July 20]

Yochai Benkler's "Coase's Penguin" and "Sharing Nicely"

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, Ellie

[Week 4 / of July 27]

Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4)

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: Floor, kaylea, Ellie

[Week 5 / of August 3]

Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (second half: Chapters 5-8)

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: Floor, kaylea, Ellie

[Week 6 / of August 10]

Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4) and Jo Freeman's "Tyranny of Structurelessness"

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, Ellie

[Week 7 / of August 17]

Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (second half: Chapters 5-8)

• Discussion leader(s):
• People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, Ellie

[Week 8 / of August 24]

TBD

[Week 9 / of August 31]

TBD

New suggestions go here

• Ruha Benjamin, The New Jim Code
• Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin
• Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Lisa Nakamura)

Top Ideas from the past?

• Data Feminism
• Axelrod
• Piaget
• Coding Freedom

Lessons from 2019 Instantiation

• Deciding on book/s needs to happen earlier so that we can get the word out and folks can plan
• Intersecting reading choices and discussion leaders earlier would also be helpful

Structural Ideas from Post-Summer 2019

• Part of a broader "Samba school" program that CDSC might operate as over each summer?
• What is the periodicity of the STC? 3 years? 4 years?

Reading Ideas From 2019 Planning

• Axelrod's wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation. A more controversial suggestion would be Kropotkin's wikipedia:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution —mako๛
• Claude Shannon (or at least someone else's summary of information theory) Aaronshaw (talk) 16:38, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
• Hayek (on information) Aaronshaw (talk) 16:39, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
• If we want to read something ecological I would pick "organizations evolving" by Reuf and Aldrich. It may be a bit too high level and its kind of a textbook. I'd also be excited to do Marx, Weber, Durkheim. Another idea for a social theory book is "Constructing Social Theories" by Stinchcomb. Groceryheist (talk) 18:24, 5 June 2019 (EDT)
• Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: outline of the theory of structuration. University of California Press.
• Something by Wanda Orlikowski Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
• Jo Freeman's Tyranny of Structurelessness Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (this is very short and important! there's no excuse not to do it —mako๛ 20:44, 5 June 2020 (CEST))
• Jessica Nembhard's Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
• Francesa Polletta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting Sneha (talk) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (This is a new classic and and I'd really like to do it. —mako๛)

Reading Ideas From Post-Summer 2019

• Castells (or, perhaps, Phil Howard on Castells, with some auxiliary reading) Kaylea (talk) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
• Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Hirschmann) Kaylea (talk) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
• The Sciences of the Artificial, HA Simon. "best known for concepts of bounded rationality and satisficing" Kaylea (talk) 15:48, 8 January 2020 (EST)
• Piaget (or, someone covering Piaget) in keeping with last year's pattern of having a reading about education Kaylea (talk) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST) (Mako suggests the A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks by Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson) Kaylea (talk)
• Gabrielle Tard (Mako mentioned in orgcomm class)
• Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith. 1999. Communities in Cyberspace. London: Routledge.
• Data Feminism by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (—mako๛)
• Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking by Gabriella Coleman (—mako๛)