Rockefeller Reads discussion

Look here for reviews of Automating Inequality, interviews with the author, and additional resources on the algorithmic governance and economic inequality. Feel free to add new films, TV shows, books, articles, current events for the group to discuss on July 23.

Here are some of my favorite interviews and reviews!

THE NEW YORK TIMES SUNDAY REVIEW OF BOOKS
“How Big Data is ‘Automating Inequality’” (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/bo...)
May 4, 2018, Liza Featherstone

“‘Automating Inequality’ is riveting (an accomplishment for a book on technology and policy). Its argument should be widely circulated, to poor people, social service workers and policymakers, but also throughout the professional classes. Everyone needs to understand that technology is no substitute for justice.”

AL JAZEERA ENGLISH, ALL HAIL THE ALGORITHM
https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje...
This five-part series on the impacts of algorithms on everyday life, created by journalist Ali Rae, features Eubanks in "Episode 1: Trust Me, I'm an Algorithm," but they are all well-worth watching.

HARVARD LAW REVIEW, “Digitizing the Carceral State”
https://harvardlawreview.org/2019/04/...
April 10, 2019, Dorothy E Roberts

“Automating Inequality shines a needed spotlight on government assistance programs the public is more likely to view as benevolent than as punitive. The key aspects Eubanks highlights — big data collection, automated decisionmaking, and predictive analytics — also characterize expanding high-tech approaches to criminal justice.”

PODCAST: WRITER’S VOICE WITH FRANCESCA RHEANNON
https://www.writersvoice.net/2019/10/...
October 2019

We talk quite a bit about my process in the interview, which was fun for me!