European leaders need to bring immigration numbers down, and metadata on smartphones could be just what they need to start sending migrants back

Maria O’Hara (Reading List Services Support Co-Ordinator) outlines why we need to question the existing structures of the Library, namely our classification system -Dewey Decimal – a sy…

If you’ve got the “right” job, race and gender, marketers use tracking to flatter you. If you don’t, tracking is is more likely to be used to exploit you.

Content updated 2016 Links updated October 15, 2018 Community-Led Work in Practice: Experiences from Canadian libraries A series of papers written by members of the former CLA Community-Led Library…

"Privacy was once misconstrued as being about hiding and secrecy. Now it’s understood to be something much more pressing: power dynamics between the individual, the state and the market."

Archival Science - This paper critically explores power structures embedded in archival description and re-conceptualizes archives and archival material as assemblages of politicized decisions...

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Which professions have a set-apart "woman X" term, and which a "male X" term?

Two new books show that for the poor, privacy has never been on offer

From the Pinkerton private detectives of the 1850s, to the closed-circuit cameras and email monitoring of the 1990s, to contemporary apps that quantify the prod

Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong.

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.

Attempts at fleshing out the concept of algorithmic violence.  - GitHub - MimiOnuoha/On-Algorithmic-Violence: Attempts at fleshing out the concept of algorithmic violence.

A student’s path into software engineering has not been easy with DACA protections hanging in the political balance.