media & resource libary
You can find books, podcasts, movies, documentaries, articles and references discussing current issues related ethical technology. Our curated selection of resources focus on understanding the issues and the ways forward that move towards a more humane and responsible technology ecosystem.
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Books - Non-Fiction
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- Oct 26, 2022 Custodians of the Internet
- Oct 26, 2022 Artificial Unintelligence
- Oct 26, 2022 A Future So Bright
- Sep 23, 2022 System Error
- Sep 23, 2022 Rules for a Flat World
- Sep 23, 2022 The Age of AI
- Sep 6, 2022 Internet for the People
- Sep 6, 2022 Design Justice
- Sep 6, 2022 Coded Bias
- Sep 6, 2022 Automating Inequality
- Sep 6, 2022 Atlas of AI
- Sep 6, 2022 Algorithms of Oppression
- Sep 6, 2022 The Age of Surveillance
- Sep 6, 2022 Weapons of Math Destruction
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Course
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- Sep 24, 2022 Tech Stewardship
- Sep 7, 2022 Foundations for Humane Tech
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Film & TV
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- Sep 6, 2022 The Social Dilemma
- Sep 6, 2022 Q: Into the Storm
- Sep 6, 2022 Web of Make Believe
- Sep 6, 2022 The Great Hack
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Podcast
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- Sep 24, 2022 Digital Sociology Podcast
- Sep 23, 2022 Eye on AI
- Sep 23, 2022 The Tech Humanist
- Sep 6, 2022 Your Undivided Attention
- Sep 6, 2022 Spark
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Report
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- Sep 7, 2022 Improving Social Media
- Sep 7, 2022 Responsible Tech Handbook
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Tool Kit
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- Sep 7, 2022 Youth Toolkits
- Sep 7, 2022 Policymakers Toolkits
- Sep 7, 2022 Parents and Educators Toolkit
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Improving Social Media
It is time for greater action toward improving social media. This report, Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations and Ideas for a Better Tech Future is directed at policymakers and social media platforms with the express purpose of creating a more holistic, collective approach to improving social media.
Responsible Tech Handbook
Get ready to discover a vibrant and diverse community that is deeply committed to building a better tech future.The Responsible Tech Guide, the flagship resource for our non-profit, is structured to allow you to quickly learn about the people, organizations, and ideas of the growing movement.
Foundations for Humane Tech
To build technology that matters tomorrow, we have to start with different principles today. This self-paced online course prepares product teams to create technology that treats attention and intention as sacred, protects well-being, and builds our collective capacity to address humanity’s most urgent challenges.
Youth Toolkits
Our social media environment is broken. Want a roadmap to help fix it? Integrating expertise across technology, mindfulness, and educational instruction, this interactive toolkit helps young people navigate — and push to change — a broken social media environment.
Policymakers Toolkits
As a society, we’ve normalized digital lawlessness in the name of innovation and disruption. We need guardrails that protect the conditions that democracy needs to thrive: a comprehensively educated public, a citizenry that can check the power of market forces and bind predatory behavior.
Parents and Educators Toolkit
For school districts, educators, mental health advocates, young people, and other leaders alike, the Centre for Humane Technology’s Youth & Educators Toolkit helps high school and college students navigate — and push to change — a broken social media environment.
The Social Dilemma
Technology’s promise to keep us connected has given rise to a host of unintended consequences that are catching up with us. If we can’t address our broken information ecosystem, we’ll never be able to address the challenges that plague humanity.
Q: Into the Storm
A six-part documentary series charting a labyrinthine journey to unmask the mastermind behind QAnon.
Web of Make Believe
Conspiracy. Fraud. Violence. Murder. What starts out virtual can get real all too quickly — and when the web is worldwide, so are the consequences.
The Great Hack
Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Your Undivided Attention
Your Undivided Attention explores the incredible power that technology has over our lives — and how we can use it to catalyze a humane future.
Internet for the People
The internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.
Design Justice
An exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.
Coded Bias
CODED BIAS explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini’s discovery that facial recognition does not see dark-skinned faces accurately, and her journey to push for the first-ever legislation in the U.S. to govern against bias in the algorithms that impact us all.
Automating Inequality
Automating Inequality systematically investigates the impacts of data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models on poor and working-class people in America.
Atlas of AI
In Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Crawford reveals how the global networks underpinning AI technology are damaging the environment, entrenching inequality, and fuelling a shift toward undemocratic governance.
Algorithms of Oppression
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms