Employees are defying a company ban on talking publicly about Amazon practices.

"This dubious thing is just a fact of life now."

For nearly three decades, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has led the fight to protect people’s digital rights, incubating allied organizations and offering free security tools to nonprofits. Can it continue to uphold its mission? From the Summer 2019 issue.

Teach your children to use technology in a healthy, responsible way. Learn what to watch for, how to set limits and stick to them, and when it's O.K. to embrace screen time.

Ethical OS Toolkit As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend most of our time focusing on how our tech will change the world for the better. Which is great. Everyone loves a sunny disposition. But perhaps it’s more useful, in some ways, to consider the glass half empty. What

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In this chapter we perform a meta-analysis and synthesize existing critical library and information studies work into a cohesive approach to critical systems librarianship, informed by diverse perspectives and ethical lenses. We seek to enable and facilitate a critically-informed, reflective, and reflexive approach to systems work with specific focus on how information technologies are applied in library work. Critical systems librarianship centrally involves critical reflection which allows systems workers to question the underlying values, assumptions, and power relations ingrained in their daily practices and the institutions within which they work: this is essential to both theoretical questioning and developing strategies to contest power imbalances.

I need to read this Verbeek book.

Social media is a recent invention, but conflicts between Washington and business aren't.

“If technology can mold us, and technologists are the ones who shape that technology, we should demand some level of ethics training for technologists.”

Vinopal knocks another one out of the park.

Writing about “technology and the moral dimension,” tech writer and Gigaom founder, Om Malik made the following observation: “I can safely say that we in tech don’t understand the…

Students in anthropology Professor Mark Kenoyer's Ancient Technology and Invention course were working recently under a beating hot sun at the outdoor UW–Madison Experimental Archaeology Lab near Picnic Point.

Saying that a science-fiction writer doesn’t really write about technology proper is perhaps the base of insults in that literary world, and one–I suspect–often reserved for the women of the genre. Ursula K. Le Guin writes a rant, republishing from her website below, arguing that technology is not just wires and servers but also “the active human interface with the material world.” Read the original version here.   In an interesting and favorable notice of Ch...

On the genderedness of what counts as "technology" and whom it empowers.