Masters Module - Design for Social Change

This page exists as an index of some topics, thoughts and pages seeded by, relevant to, or linked to during my Masters study (but not necessarily from a specific resource).

  • Moten, F. & Harney, S. (2021) All Incomplete. Minor Compositions.
  • Ahmed, S. (2021) Complaint!
  • Bohnet, I. (2016) What Works: Gender Equality by Design.
  • Godin (2015). Innovation contested: The Idea of Innovation Over the Centuries.
  • Owen, R., Heintz, M. & Bessant, J. (eds.) (2013) Responsible Innovation
  • Costanza-Chock, S. (2018). Design justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the Design Research Society.
  • Amatullo, M. et al. (eds) (2022) Design for social innovation: case studies from around the world. New York: Routledge.
  • Smith, A., Fressoli, M., Abrol, D., Arond, E. & Ely, A. (2017) Grassroots Innovation Movements (Pathways to Sustainability)
  • Deighton, J., & Kornfeld, L. (2018). Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. Harvard Business School.
  • Plantin, J.-C., Lagoze, C., Edwards, P. N., & Sandvig, C. (2018). Infrastructure studies meet platform studies. New Media & Society, 20(1), 293–310.
  • Helmond, A. (2015). Facebook’s evolution as a platform-as-infrastructure. Internet Policy Review, 4(2).
  • Ossandón, J. (2021). Markets, infrastructures, and infrastructure markets. Journal of Cultural Economy, 14(4), 429–439.
  • Irani L., Vertesi J., Dourish, P. Philip, K. and E. Grinter, R. (2010) ‘Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development’, in Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’10). ACM, New York, USA, pp.1311-1320.
  • ohnet, I. (2016) What Works: Gender Equality by Design. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Katell, M., Young, M., Dailey, D., Herman, B., Guetler, V., Tam, A., … & Krafft, P. M. (2020, January). Toward Situated Interventions for Algorithmic Equity: Lessons From the Field. In Proceedings of the 2020 conference on fairness, accountability, and transparency (pp. 45-55).
  • D’Ignazio, C. and F. Klein, L., (2020) Data Feminism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 
  • West, S.M., Whittaker, M. and Crawford, K. (2019) Discriminating Systems: Gender, Race and Power in AI. https://ainowinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/discriminatingsystems.pdf
  • Broussard, M (2019) Artificial Unintelligence: How computers misunderstand the world. The MIT Press
  • The Hidden Life of an Amazon User by Joana Moll - Art Work
  • “Invention of Instagram” - Stanford’s Persuasive Technology Lab
  • Vladan Joler: Dissecting New Extractivism
  • Dark Patterns: How design seeks to control us
  • Sally Woellner
  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Explained