Please assume that the material and schedule for future meetings may change a few weeks 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.

MondayTuesday WednesdayThursday Friday
jan 23 jan 24 jan 25
LEC 1: Introduction
Preparation:
First day of classes
jan 26 jan 27
LEC 2: Data, who, what, where?
Preparation: Lemov, Data is people
Preparation: Becket, Everything we know about what data brokers know about you
jan 30
LEC 3: Data as property
Preparation: John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, chapter 5
jan 31 feb 1
LEC 4: Data as property
Preparation: Mcnish et al, Big Data and Democracy, part 1: chapter 3
feb 2 feb 3
LEC 5: Data as property
Preparation: Muldoon, Data-owning democracy or digital socialism?
feb 6
LEC 6: Data as a factor of production
Preparation: Sadowski, When data is capital: Datafication, accumulation, and extraction
Assigned: Short paper 1
feb 7 feb 8
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 9 feb 10
LEC 8: Data as a factor of production
Preparation: Weyl and Posner, Radical Markets, chapter 5: Data as Labor
feb 13
LEC 9: Data as an extension of the body
Preparation: Berson, Computable Bodies: Instrumented Life and the Human Somatic Niche, chapter 4
feb 14 feb 15
LEC 10: Data as an extension of the body
Preparation: Lupton, Data Selves, chapter 4
feb 16 feb 17
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
feb 20
Presidents' Day
feb 21 feb 22
LEC 12: Use of data: surveillance and control
Preparation: Foucault , Discipline and Punish, part III -- chapter 3 ("Panopticism")
feb 23 feb 24
LEC 13: Use of data: surveillance and control
Preparation: Warren and Brandeis, The Right to Privacy
DUE: Short paper 1
feb 27
LEC 14: Use of data: surveillance and control
Preparation: Allen, Privacy-as-Data Control: Conceptual, Practical, and Moral Limits of the Paradigm
feb 28 mar 1
LEC 15: Use of data: prediction
Preparation: Brayne, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, chapter 4
mar 2 mar 3
LEC 16: Use of data: prediction
Preparation: Sunstein, Algorithms, Correcting Biases
Assigned: Short paper 2
mar 6
LEC 17: Use of data: manipulation
Preparation: Pettit, Freedom as Antipower
mar 7 mar 8
LEC 18: Use of data: manipulation
Preparation: Jongepier and Wieland, Microtargeting people as a mere means (chapter 8)
mar 9 mar 10
LEC 19: Use of data: accountability
Preparation: Mcnish et al, Big Data and Democracy, chapters 10 and 11
mar 13
LEC 20: Writing workshop
mar 14 mar 15
LEC 21: Controlling data: consent
Preparation: Simmons, Tacit Consent and Political Obligation
mar 16 mar 17
LEC 22: Controlling data: consent
Preparation: Kleinig, The Ethics of Consent
mar 20
LEC 23: Controlling data: paternalism
Preparation: Dworkin, Paternalism
mar 21 mar 22
LEC 24: Controlling data: paternalism
Preparation: Castro et al. Epistemic Paternalism Online
mar 23 mar 24
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 27
Spring Break
mar 28
Spring Break
mar 29
Spring Break
mar 30
Spring Break
mar 31
Spring Break
apr 3
LEC 26: Hiding data: encryption
Preparation: Bay, The ethics of unbreakable encryption: Rawlsian privacy and the San Bernardino iPhone
apr 4 apr 5
LEC 27: Revealing Data: whistleblowing and leaking
Preparation: Anderson, Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful: the cypherpunk ethics of Julian Assange
apr 6 apr 7
LEC 28: Revealing Data: whistleblowing and leaking
Preparation: Delmas, The Ethics of Government Whistleblowing
DUE: Final paper proposal
apr 10
LEC 29: Final paper workshop
Preparation:
apr 11 apr 12
LEC 30: Our data: self-quantification
Preparation: Lanzing, The transparent self
apr 13 apr 14
LEC 31: Our data: self-quantification
Preparation: Danaher, The quantified relationship
Preparation: Hull, The politics of quantified relationships
apr 17
LEC 32: Our data: sharing and forgetting
Preparation: Pasquale, The Black Box Society, chapter 2
apr 18 apr 19
LEC 33: Our data: sharing and forgetting
Preparation: Ctrl + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten, chapter 4.
apr 20 apr 21
LEC 34: Their data: ancestors
Preparation: Buitelaar,Post-mortem privacy and informational self-determination
apr 24
LEC 35: Their data: ancestors
Preparation: Winter, Against Posthumous Rights
apr 25 apr 26
LEC 36: Final paper pitches
Preparation:
apr 27 apr 28
LEC 37: Final paper pitches
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may 1
LEC 38: Class wrap-up
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may 2 may 3 may 4 may 5
may 8
DUE: Final project
may 9
Last day of classes
may 10
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