Overview of Big Data

• Michael Keller and Josh Neufeld (2014), Terms of Service
• The Human Face of Big Data documentary
• Living in a Culture of Algorithms, Data & Society Podcast Episode 11
• Alex Pentland (2015), Social Physics: How Social Networks Can Make Us Smarter

Capitalism and Data

• Cathy O’Neil (2017), Weapons of Math Destruction
• Weapons of Math Destruction, Data & Society Podcast Episode 8
• Claudo Minca and Maartje Roelofsen (2021), “Becoming Airbnbeings: on datafication and the Quantified Self in Tourism” in Tourism Geographies
• Andrew McStay (2017), Privacy and the Media.
• “Nosedive,” Black Mirror Season 3, Episode 1
• Adtech and the Attention Economy, Data & Society Podcast Episode 74
• Becoming Data Episode 5: Data & Racial Capitalism, Data & Society Podcast Episode 85
• Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Range (2018), Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data
• Shoshana Zuboff (2019), The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

Bias and Inequality

• Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein (2020), Data Feminism
• Data Feminism, Data & Society Podcast Episode 67
• Safiya Noble (2018), Algorithms of Oppression
• Algorithms of Oppression, Data & Society Podcast Episode 46
• Teri Schnaubelt (2018), Automating Inequality
• Coded Bias documentary
• Caroline Criado Perez (2019), Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

Artificial Intelligence

• Kai-Fu Lee (2018), AI Superpowers
• Jill Walker Rettberg (2022), “ChatGPT is Multilingual but monocultural, and it’s learning your values,” in jill/txt
• Kate Crawford (2021), Atlas of AI
• Person of Interest
• “Be Right Back,” Black Mirror, Season 2, episode 1
• Becoming Data Episode 3: Data, AI & Automation, Data & Society Podcast Episode 83
• Can ChatGPT Make This Podcast? Hard Fork Podcast
• AI Text Generators: Sources to Stimulate Discussion among Teachers
• Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan (2021), AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Politics and Computational Warfare

• Kai Strittmatter (2020), We Have Been Harmonized
• Samuel C. Woolley and Philip N. Howard (Eds.) (2019), Computational Propaganda
• Yochai Benkler Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts (2018), Network Propaganda
• The Great Hack
• A Look Inside China’s Social Credit System
• Electionland Misinformation, Data & Society Podcast Episode 75
• Digital Technology and Democratic Theory, Data & Society Podcast Episode 78
• Peter Pomerantsev (2019), This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality
• Philip N. Howard (2020), Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives
• Jenny Goldstein and Eric Nost (Eds.) (2022), The Nature of Data: Infrastructure, Environments, Politics

My Related Writing

• Sylvia IV, J.J. and Kyle Moody (2019), “False Information Narratives: The IRA’s 2016 Presidential Election Facebook Campaign.” In Chiluwa, Innocent and Sergei Samoilenko (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Deception, Fake News and Misinformation Online, (pp. 326-348). IGI Global.
• Carrigan, Mark and J.J. Sylvia IV. 2022. “Is It Paranoia? A Critical Approach to Platform Literacy.” Journal of Media Literacy, The Human-Algorithmic Question: A Media Literacy Education Exploration Special Issue.
• Sylvia IV, J.J. (2016), “Little Brother: How Big Data Necessitates an Ethical Shift from Privacy to Power.” In Booth, P. and A. Davisson, (Eds.), Controversies in Digital Ethics (pp. 13-28). Bloomsbury.
• Sylvia IV, J.J. (2010), “The Ethical Implications of A/B and Multivariate E-Commerce Optimization Testing”. In Palmer, D.E. (Ed.), Ethical Issues in E-Business: Models and Frameworks (pp. 91-104). Business Science Reference.
• ​​Sylvia IV, J.J. 2021. “An Affirmative Approach to Teaching Critical Data Studies.” Journalism and Media, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence in Journalism and Media Special Issue. Vol. 2, Issue 4. 641-656.
• Sylvia IV, J.J. (2020), “The Biopolitics of Social Distancing.” in Social Media + Society, 2k Special Issue. Vol. 6, Issue 3.
• Sylvia IV, J.J. and Mark Andrejevic. (2016), “The Future of Critique: Mark Andrejevic on Power/Knowledge and the Big Data-Driven Decline of Symbolic Efficiency.” International Journal of Communication. Vol. 10. 3230-3240.
• Sylvia IV, J.J. (Pre-Print) “From LiveJournal with Love: A Comparative Analysis of Russia’s Domestic and International Disinformation Campaigns.”
• Sylvia IV. J.J. (Draft) “Caught in the Middle: LiveJournal’s Geopolitical-Fueled Decline.”