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Automation Otherwise: A Review of “Automating Inequality”

Automation Otherwise: A Review of “Automating Inequality”

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the PoorVirginia Eubanks2018, 272 pp, St. Martin's Press What if we thought differently about how to integrate human and machine agencies?  As I sat down in to write this review of Virginia Eubanks’ latest book, Automating...

Taking Sides in E-cigarette Research

Taking Sides in E-cigarette Research

In the last ten years, an eclectic mix of electronic nicotine delivery products (‘e-cigarettes’) and practices have proliferated in the US with little restriction, producing a vast array of vaping mechanisms, flavors, and styles. At the same time, anti-tobacco movements have targeted e-cigarettes...

Knowing a Country: A Post-Brexit Polemic

Knowing a Country: A Post-Brexit Polemic

"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." —Lenin My country has changed so dramatically in the last few days that I don’t know where to start. I don’t know if I even know my own country anymore. I am reeling. Shocked. Dismayed. Worried. I am not alone in...

Service Designing the City

Service Designing the City

Abstract: From cataclysmic recessions to unprecedented climate disasters, our cities seem awash with unintended consequences borne of complex times. While city administrations grapple with developing systemic supports, our infrastructure, communities and individual wellbeing are increasingly...