Resources

Resources will magically appear here. Also see weekly posts for assigned readings and things to watch.
Key texts for class:

Weekly chapters from
Douglas Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed

Book group (Week 10-11 class review):
Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns The Future?

Kevin Kelly, Out of Control

Week 1:
The Eames Information Machine
Foster Huntington’s The Burning House
Catch and Release for AIGA Design/Relief, at Public Interest Design.org
Bruce Mau, Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Week 2:
A feminist critique of Her
Wired: Why Her will dominate UI design more than Minority Report
China’s Web Junkies, New York Times

Also see (ie not discussed in class):
Ray Kurzweil’s review of Her
Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools, Dezeen
Americans without smart phones a dwindling breed, Pew

Week 3:
Roger Martin, The Opposable Mind (emailed pdf)Tihamér von Ghyczy, Fruitful Flaws of Strategy Metaphors, Harvard Business Review (emailed pdf)

If Instagram was from the 1980s

Week 4:
The complete Taxi 07 project
Summary of the Walk NY wayfinding data project
Summary of the SVA interaction design MTA Big Data workshop

Five things we need to know about technological change, Neil Postman
The Craftsman, Richard Sennett
Unified Theory of Design, Nathan Shedroff (emailed)

Week 5:
The science of comic strips, Fast Company
Presence, Bill Gaver and Tony Dunne, 2000 (Excerpt I handed out comparing scientific and design accountability). Out of print. Cling to that handout!
Also see:
Evgeny Morozov‘s web site
If Instagram was around in the 80s

Week 6:
Designing for Solitude, Ben Fullerton
Also see:
Finding your superpower, Deborah Alden (emailed)

Week 7: See the post for this week. All readings listed there too
Harnessing the power of stories, Jen Aaker

Week 7-9:
Two movies:
– First Comes Love
– Mother of George

Then also, by request: (links to come*)
– Centre for Family Research, Cambridge University, Non-Traditional Families Study group (great range of papers, take a look, esp under Prof Susan Golombok)
– Old dads and autism research *
– Surrogacy for men (NPR or NYT) *
– Professional Aunts No Kids (PANK) *
-Jody Day, Gateway Women, 50 Ways Not to Be a Mother
– And, a bit hyperbolic but some valid points: Recline, Don’t Lean In, Why I hate Sheryl Sandberg , Washington Post

And since you insisted ; )
– Why white kids love hip hop, Bakwari Kitwana
Week 8:
Seeing Like a State, Paul Scott
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy, Arjun Appadurai (in Global Culture, Sage, 1990)

Week 9:
The woman in the body, Emily Martin
Transformation of Intimacy, Anthony Giddens
From Liora, on pornography:
The Louis Theroux docs are:
1. the 1997 original
2. the 2012 follow up

Sex Traffic (HBO, 2004)
The BBC article on one Indian man’s sanitary revolution
Also see Fresh Life in Nairobi, Kenya
Sex and the Start-up:  Silicon Valley’s gross gender bias

Week 10-11:

A primer on interviewing users, Lou Rosenfeld
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies cards
Where the Girls Are and Enlightened Sexism, by Susan J Douglas, about media influence on women
Everyday Sexism Project
The Good Men Project
Journal of Porn studies (a legit academic journal, suggested by Gaia and Graphic Medicine’s Dr Ian Williams)
Andrea found this lighthearted video on the biological clock

Week 12
Misc dropbox resources on systems, see Robert McKee on Story in here

Week 13
The Skoda cake commercial
The Guardian 1986 “Skinhead” commercial
The OK Go Rube Goldberg music video
Why the Open Internet is So Closed to Women, The Nation, April 2014
Danah Boyd’s response to (mostly my) feedback to her Quartz article

Week 14 and 15 – with recommendations from guest critics

Creative Mornings hosted Cindy Gallop’s talk about Make Love Not Porn.tv. The video is up here
“Meet the Woman who did everything in her power to hide her pregnancy from Google”, Think Progress
Judith Warner, Perfect Madness
Chester Brown, Paying for It
The White House’s Anti-Sexual Assault video
Technology’s Man Problem, NY Times
17 Lies We Need to Stop Teaching Girls about Sex, Policy Mic
Seven Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Forbes
Jezebel’s counter to Bloomberg Businessweek’s Freeze Your Eggs, Free Your Career