Please assume that the material and schedule for future meetings may change up to a week in advance. If you are particularly interested in some topic not covered here, send an email to Julia.
All the readings for the weeks ahead will be available on Canvas, unless they are available as an ebook from the library. In that case, there will be a link on the schedule.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| jan 22 | jan 23 | jan 24 LEC 1: Introduction First day of classes |
jan 25 | jan 26 LEC 2: Data, who, what, where? Preparation: Lemov, Data is people Preparation: Becket, Everything we know about what data brokers know about you Assigned: Short paper 1 |
| jan 29 LEC 3: Data as property Preparation: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, chapter 5 |
jan 30 | jan 31 LEC 4: Data as property Preparation: Mcnish et al, Big Data and Democracy, part 1: chapter 3 |
feb 1 | feb 2 LEC 5: Data as property Preparation: Muldoon, Data-owning democracy or digital socialism? |
| feb 5 LEC 6: Data as a factor of production Preparation: Sadowski, When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction |
feb 6 | feb 7 LEC 7: Data as a factor of production Preparation: Avent, The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century, part 2 (pp. 48-88) |
feb 8 | feb 9 LEC 8: Data as a factor of production Preparation: Weyl and Posner, Radical Markets, chapter 5: Data as Labor |
| feb 12 LEC 9: Data as an extension of the body Preparation: Berson, Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche, chapter 4 |
feb 13 | feb 14 LEC 10: Data as an extension of the body Preparation: Lupton, Data Selves, chapter 4 |
feb 15 | feb 16 LEC 11: Data as an extension of the body Preparation: Vallor, Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting, chapter 8 DUE: Short paper 1 |
| feb 19 Assigned: Short paper 2 Long Weekend |
feb 20 | feb 21 LEC 12: Use of data: surveillance and control Preparation: Foucault , Discipline and Punish, part III -- chapter 3 ("Panopticism") |
feb 22 | feb 23 LEC 13: Use of data: surveillance and control Preparation: Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy |
| feb 26 LEC 14: Use of data: surveillance and control Preparation: Allen, Privacy-as-Data Control: Conceptual, Practical, and Moral Limits of the Paradigm |
feb 27 | feb 28 LEC 15: Writing workshop |
feb 29 | mar 1 LEC 16: Use of data: prediction Preparation: Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, chapter 4 |
| mar 4 LEC 17: Use of data: prediction Preparation: Sunstein, Algorithms, Correcting Biases |
mar 5 | mar 6 LEC 18: Use of data: manipulation Preparation: Pettit, Freedom as Antipower |
mar 7 | mar 8 LEC 19: Use of data: manipulation Preparation: Jongepier and Wieland, Microtargeting people as a mere means (chapter 8) |
| mar 11 LEC 20: Use of data: accountability Preparation: Mcnish et al, Big Data and Democracy, chapters 10 and 11 |
mar 12 | mar 13 LEC 21: Controlling data: consent Preparation: Simmons, Tacit Consent and Political Obligation |
mar 14 | mar 15 LEC 22: Controlling data: consent Preparation: Kleinig, The Ethics of Consent |
| mar 18 LEC 23: Controlling data: paternalism Preparation: Dworkin, Paternalism |
mar 19 | mar 20 LEC 24: Controlling data: paternalism Preparation: Castro et al. Epistemic Paternalism Online |
mar 21 | mar 22 LEC 25: Hiding data: encryption Preparation: Diffie and Landau, Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, Introduction Preparation: Horsman, A Call for the Prohibition of Encryption: Panacea or Problem? DUE: Short paper 2 |
| mar 25 Spring Break |
mar 26 Spring Break |
mar 27 Spring Break |
mar 28 Spring Break |
mar 29 Spring Break |
| apr 1 LEC 26: Hiding data: encryption Preparation: Bay, The ethics of unbreakable encryption: Rawlsian privacy and the San Bernardino iPhone |
apr 2 | apr 3 LEC 27: Revealing Data: whistleblowing and leaking Preparation: Anderson, Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful: the cypherpunk ethics of Julian Assange |
apr 4 | apr 5 LEC 28: Revealing Data: whistleblowing and leaking Preparation: Delmas, The Ethics of Government Whistleblowing DUE: Final paper proposal |
| apr 8 LEC 29: Final paper workshop Preparation: |
apr 9 | apr 10 LEC 30: Our data: self-quantification Preparation: Lanzing, The transparent self |
apr 11 | apr 12 LEC 31: Our data: self-quantification Preparation: Danaher, The quantified relationship Preparation: Hull, The politics of quantified relationships |
| apr 15 LEC 32: Our data: sharing and forgetting Preparation: Pasquale, The Black Box Society, chapter 2 |
apr 16 | apr 17 LEC 33: Our data: sharing and forgetting Preparation: Ctrl + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten, chapter 4. |
apr 18 | apr 19 LEC 34: Their data: ancestors Preparation: Buitelaar,Post-mortem privacy and informational self-determination |
| apr 22 LEC 35: Their data: ancestors Preparation: Winter, Against Posthumous Rights |
apr 23 | apr 24 LEC 36: Final paper pitches Preparation: |
apr 25 | apr 26 LEC 37: Final paper pitches Preparation: |
| apr 29 LEC 38: Class wrap-up Preparation: |
apr 30 | may 1 | may 2 | may 3 |
| may 6 | may 7 DUE: Final project Last day of classes |
may 8 Exam period |
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may 10 Exam period |
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