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The '''Sociotechnocanonicon Great Books Discussion Series''' allows members of the CDSC to build their familiarity with some of the classic works which are foundational to the collective's research program.
The '''Sociotechnocanonicon Great Books Discussion Series''' allows members of the CDSC to build their familiarity with some of the classic works which are foundational in studies of online communities and peer production. The discussions are open to all, and facilitated by senior members of CDSC in order to introduce the broader context of the work. Meetings are held in person and aired over Jitsi for remote participation.


The discussions are open to all, and facilitated by senior members of CDSC in order to introduce the broader context of the work. Meetings are held in person and aired over Jitsi for remote participation. Themes we often try to cover including collective action, social movements, participatory-democracy, networks, sociomateriality, sociotechnical systems, and cooperation.
Themes try to cover including collective action, social movements, participatory-democracy, networks, sociomateriality, sociotechnical systems, and cooperation.


This page covers the Summer 2021 version of the reading group. Links to previous years are at the bottom of the page.
This page covers the Summer 2020 version of the reading group. Links to previous years are at the bottom of the page.


== Details ==
== Details and Schedule ==


;Time: Wednesdays at 1pm pacific, 3pm central (except for week 1).  
;Time: Mondays at 11am Pacific; 1pm Central; 2pm Eastern; 8pm Central European
;Place: https://meet.jit.si/cdsc (see [[CommunityData:Jitsi]] for call in numbers and such)
;Notes: [https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/cdsc-stc2020 Etherpad]
;Location: Online on [https://meet.jit.si/cdsc CDSC Jitsi]  


== Schedule ==
;<strike>[Week 1 / of July 6]: Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-3)
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* People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, sejal, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, [[User:Healspersecond|Charlie]], [[User:Carl|Carl]], mika, salt, sejal
;Week 1 (June 21-25): Douglass North's ''Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance'' Part I: Institutions -- Friday at noon Pacific, 2pm Central
;[Week 2 / of July 13]: Elinor Ostrom's Governing the Commons (second half: Chapters 4-6)
;Week 2 (June 28-July 2): Douglass North's ''Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance'' Part II: Institutional Change & Part III: Economic Performance Wednesday at 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central.
* People attending: kaylea, aaron, Ellie, sejal, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, salt, sejal
;Week 3 (July 7) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Axelrod's [[:wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation|The Evolution of Cooperation]] Parts I - III; Wednesday at .  
;[Week 3 / of July 20]:  Two articles by Yochai Benkler: [http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.PDF Coase's Penguin] and [http://benkler.org/SharingNicely.html Sharing Nicely]
;Week 4 (July 14) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Axelrod Parts IV and V.
* If there's anyway you can, read [[:wikipedia:Ronald Coase|Ronald Coase's]] [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.x The Nature of the Firm] (Mako calls it a [https://www.pnas.org/content/112/24/7426 Sleeping Beauty] paper). At the very least, read [[:wikipedia:The Nature of the Firm|the Wikipedia article on the article]] which has a good summary of the piece.
;Week 5 (July 21) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: [[:wikipedia:Michael_Polanyi|Michael Polanyi]]'s The Tacit Dimension, credited with the notion of [[:wikipedia:Tacit_Knowledge]]
* People attending: sohyeon, kaylea, aaron, Ellie, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]], [[User:St3f|Stef]]</strike>
;Week 6 (July 28) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Jenna Bednar's ''A Robust Federation'' Chapters 1-4 (we're assuming most folks will skip/skim the mathematical appendixes)
;[Week 4 / of July 27]: Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (first half: Preface, Chapters 1-4)
;Week 7 (August 4) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Jenna Bednar's ''A Robust Federation'' Chapters 5-8
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;Week 8 (August 10) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Thomas Kuhn's ''The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'' (the whole book!)
* People attending: Floor, kaylea, Ellie, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote(?), Nate [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]], Regina
;Week 9 (August 18) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: [[:wikipedia:Margaret Levi|Margaret Levi]] ''[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520067509/of-rule-and-revenue On Rule and Revenue]'' Chapters 1-4
;[Week 5 / of August 3]: Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson's A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks (second half: Chapters 5-8)
;Week 10 (August 25) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: [[:wikipedia:Margaret Levi|Margaret Levi]] ''[https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520067509/of-rule-and-revenue On Rule and Revenue]'' Chapters 1-3 (if you didn't finish), at least one of 4-7, and 8</strike>
* People attending: Floor, kaylea, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote(?), Nate [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]]
;Week 11 (September 1) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell's ''Critical Mass in Collective Action'' Chapters 1-4 (pg 1-100) on "The critical mass and the problem of collective action"; "Building blocks: goods, groups, and processes"; "The paradox of group size"; and "The dynamics of production functions"
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;Week 12 (September 8) 1pm Pacific, 3pm Central: Pamela Oliver and Gerald Marwell's ''Critical Mass in Collective Action'' Chapter 5-8 (pg 101-193) on "Social networks: density, centralization, and cliques"; "Selectivity in social networks"; "Reach and selectivity as strategies of recruitment;" and "Unfinished business"
;[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"
:* Marwell & Oliver's retrospective "[https://doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00142 Whatever Happened to Critical Mass Theory?]" https://doi.org/10.1111/0735-2751.00142
* People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, Ellie, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, Nate, [[User:Healspersecond|Charlie]]
:* There are some other interesting suggestions for things to read on [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Schedule]] but those can all be treated as optional.
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;[Week 7 / of August 17]: Francesca Polleta's Freedom is an Endless Meeting (second half: Chapters 5-8)
* People attending: sohyeon, Floor, kaylea, aaron, Ellie, [[User:Mako|Mako!]], jdfoote, Nate [[User:Nemo_bis|Nemo]]?<!--or the other but not both weeks, will confirm-->
* Discussion leader(s): ''You?''
;[Week 8 / of August 24]: TBD
;[Week 9 / of August 31]: TBD


Once again, there is PDF copy of the book and all articles in the group Zotero library. Contact [[Mako]] if you need one in some other way. The book is difficult and includes a bit of math and data. Don't try to start reading this the morning of.
=== New suggestions go here===
 
== 2021 Suggestions ==
* Elizabeth Colson's Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Order
* Bainbridge: The Social Structure of Online Communities
** I would love to read something by Bainbridge but this book is more of an set of case studies to contexts we're already pretty deeply familiar with. I'd probably skip it for this group. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 04:17, 17 June 2021 (CEST)
* Iris Marion Young: Justice and the politics of difference
* Kropotkin: Mutual Aid
* Scott: Seeing Like a State
** We talked about reading this as a group off and on this year but it didn't come together; I read it for Generals. I think there's value here for CDSC work, but the benefit might be a little diffuse. Maybe if we read it quickly? [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 19:54, 21 June 2021 (CEST)
* <s>Douglas North: Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance</s> [SELECTED]
* <s>Margaret Levi:</s> [SELECTED]
* <s>Jenna Bednar: The Robust Federation</s> [SELECTED]
* Pierre Bourdieau: Cultural Capital
** If there's strong demand for this, we should ask one of several Bourdieau experts to come in an help read with us. Bourdieau is difficult and I've personally struggled with his work. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 04:17, 17 June 2021 (CEST)
* Visualizations Series:
** WEB Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America (Ed: Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert)
*** I'd be really into this. Maybe we could find some stuff written about it to help contextualize it and its impact? —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 04:18, 17 June 2021 (CEST)
****I think this book is meant to be at least some of that context. Maybe could add in some book reviews, or read some of the original/primary texts? [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 19:41, 21 June 2021 (CEST)
** Tufte
*** I'm not sure we'd be the best group to give a tour of this stuff. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 04:17, 17 June 2021 (CEST)
** Kieren Healy
** Manuel Lima
* Epistemics of Science Series:
** Paul Feyeraband, Against Method
** Thomas Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions
** Karl Popper, Logic of Scientific Discovery
** Stephen Jay Gould, Mismeasure of Man
** Hasock Chang, Inventing Temperature
** Scholar as Human, (Eds: Anna Sims Bartel and Debra A. Castillo)
* The Economics of Knowledge, Dominique Foray
* Dividing the Waters, William Blomquist
* Revisiting classics
** Critical Mass In Collective Action, Marwell & Oliver
 
== Suggestions from previous years ==
 
Feel free to move up things we missed before and you'd like to cover or things we covered before several years ago that you think it's time to do again.
 
=== Post 2020 suggestions ===
* Ruha Benjamin, The New Jim Code
* Ruha Benjamin, The New Jim Code
* Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice
* Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice
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* A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin
* A People’s History of Computing in the United States - Joy Lisi Rankin
* Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Lisa Nakamura)
* Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet (Lisa Nakamura)
* <strike>Data Feminism (2020)</strike> (Read it!)
* Data Feminism
* Coding Freedom
* Coding Freedom
* Automating Inequality - Virginia Eubanks


===Lessons from 2019 Instantiation===
===Lessons from 2019 Instantiation===
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===Reading Ideas From 2019 Planning===
===Reading Ideas From 2019 Planning===
* <strike>Axelrod's [[:wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation]]</strike>. A more controversial suggestion would be Kropotkin's [[:wikipedia:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]] —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>
* Axelrod's [[:wikipedia:The Evolution of Cooperation]]. A more controversial suggestion would be Kropotkin's [[:wikipedia:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution]] —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>
* Claude Shannon (or at least someone else's summary of information theory) [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaronshaw]] ([[User talk:Aaronshaw|talk]]) 16:38, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
* Claude Shannon (or at least someone else's summary of information theory) [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaronshaw]] ([[User talk:Aaronshaw|talk]]) 16:38, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
* Hayek (on information) [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaronshaw]] ([[User talk:Aaronshaw|talk]]) 16:39, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
* Hayek (on information) [[User:Aaronshaw|Aaronshaw]] ([[User talk:Aaronshaw|talk]]) 16:39, 7 May 2019 (EDT)
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* Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: outline of the theory of structuration. University of California Press.
* Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: outline of the theory of structuration. University of California Press.
* Something by Wanda Orlikowski [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
* Something by Wanda Orlikowski [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
* <strike>Jo Freeman's [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Tyranny of Structurelessness] [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (this is very short and important! there's no excuse not to do it —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 20:44, 5 June 2020 (CEST))</strike>
* Jo Freeman's [https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm Tyranny of Structurelessness] [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (this is very short and important! there's no excuse not to do it —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b> 20:44, 5 June 2020 (CEST))
* Jessica Nembhard's  Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
* Jessica Nembhard's  Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT)
* <strike>Francesa Polletta's [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3682810.html Freedom is an Endless Meeting] [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (This is a new classic and and I'd really like to do it. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)</strike>
* Francesa Polletta's [https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3682810.html Freedom is an Endless Meeting] [[User:Sneha|Sneha]] ([[User talk:Sneha|talk]]) 11:49, 6 June 2019 (EDT) (This is a new classic and and I'd really like to do it. —<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)


===Reading Ideas From Post-Summer 2019===
===Reading Ideas From Post-Summer 2019===
* Castells (or, perhaps, Phil Howard on Castells, with some auxiliary reading) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
* Castells (or, perhaps, Phil Howard on Castells, with some auxiliary reading) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
* <strike>Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Hirschmann) </strike> (2020) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
* Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Hirschmann) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST)
* The Sciences of the Artificial, HA Simon. "best known for concepts of bounded rationality and satisficing" [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:48, 8 January 2020 (EST)
* The Sciences of the Artificial, HA Simon. "best known for concepts of bounded rationality and satisficing" [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:48, 8 January 2020 (EST)
* <strike>Piaget (or, someone covering Piaget) in keeping with last year's pattern of having a reading about education [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST) (Mako suggests the [https://www.amazon.com/Piaget-Primer-Child-Thinks-Revised/dp/0452275652 A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks] by Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]])</strike> (2020)
* Piaget (or, someone covering Piaget) in keeping with last year's pattern of having a reading about education [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]]) 15:52, 13 November 2019 (EST) (Mako suggests the [https://www.amazon.com/Piaget-Primer-Child-Thinks-Revised/dp/0452275652 A Piaget Primer: How a Child Thinks] by Dorothy Singer and Tracey Revenson) [[User:Kaylea|Kaylea]] ([[User talk:Kaylea|talk]])
* Gabrielle Tard (Mako mentioned in orgcomm class)
* Gabrielle Tard (Mako mentioned in orgcomm class)
* Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith. 1999. [https://www.amazon.com/Communities-Cyberspace-Peter-Kollock/dp/0415191408 Communities in Cyberspace]. London: Routledge.
* Kollock, Peter and Marc Smith. 1999. [https://www.amazon.com/Communities-Cyberspace-Peter-Kollock/dp/0415191408 Communities in Cyberspace]. London: Routledge.
*<strike> [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism Data Feminism] by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (—<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>) </strike>(2020)
* [https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/data-feminism Data Feminism] by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (—<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)
* [https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Freedom-Ethics-Aesthetics-Hacking/dp/0691144613 Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking] by Gabriella Coleman (—<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)
* [https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Freedom-Ethics-Aesthetics-Hacking/dp/0691144613 Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking] by Gabriella Coleman (—<b>[[User:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#C40099">m</font><font color="#600099">a</font><font color="#2D0399">k</font><font color="#362365">o</font>]][[User_talk:Benjamin Mako Hill|<font color="#000000">๛</font>]]</b>)


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* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Planning]]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Planning]]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Schedule]]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2019 Schedule]]
* [[Sociotechnocanonicon/2020 Schedule]]
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