Zara Rahman: Recently, I’ve been looking for books taking a critical angle on technology (taking a broad view – data, the Internet, etc) – and I’ve noticed that many of the most cited ones are by men. I’ve read and thoroughly enjoyed a few, written by women – like Rebecca Mackinnon’s Consent of the Networked, Astra Taylor’s The People’s Platform, Gabriella Coleman’s Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy, and danah boyd’s It’s Complicated, to name just a few. I liked them especially for being accessible – not full of academic jargon, or reliant upon readers knowledge of complex theories, but rather, efforts to explain and reach a broader public.
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