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\n\n \n \n Roderic Crooks; and Bryan Truitt.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \"Where the Victor/Victim Bleeds:\" State Violence and the Public Sphere.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n
Center for Information, Technology, & Public Life (CITAP), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. January 2023.\n
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\n If you want to understand how the public is being harmed by disinformation, start with state violence. Only then can we account for the unequal social terrain produced by forms of interlocking oppression.\n
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\n\n \n \n Lucy Pei; Benedict Salazar Olgado; and Roderic Crooks.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Market, Testbed, Backroom: The Redacted Internet of Facebook’s Discover.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n In
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–13, Yokohama Japan, May 2021. ACM\n
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\n\n \n \n Jennifer Pierre; Roderic Crooks; Morgan Currie; Britt Paris; and Irene Pasquetto.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Getting Ourselves Together: Data-centered participatory design research & epistemic burden.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n In
Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–11, Yokohama Japan, May 2021. ACM\n
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\n\n \n \n Roderic Crooks.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Productive myopia: Racialized organizations and edtech.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n
Big Data & Society, 8(2): 1–16. July 2021.\n
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\n\n \n \n Lucy Pei; and Roderic Crooks.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Attenuated Access: Accounting for Startup, Maintenance, and Affective Costs in Resource-Constrained Communities.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n In
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 1–15, Honolulu HI USA, April 2020. ACM\n
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\n\n \n \n Roderic Crooks.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n Between Communication and Violence.\n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n
ACM Interactions, 27(5): 60 – 65. October 2020.\n
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\n\n \n \n Roderic N. Crooks.\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n Times Thirty: Access, Maintenance, and Justice.\n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n\n\n\n
Science, Technology, & Human Values, 44(1): 118–142. January 2019.\n
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\n Based on an ethnographic project in a public high school in a low-income neighborhood in South Los Angeles, this paper argues that access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) cannot be taken as helpful or empowering on its own terms; instead, concerns about justice must be accounted for by the local communities technology is meant to benefit. This paper juxtaposes the concept of technological access with recent work in feminist science and technology studies (STS) on infrastructure, maintenance, and ethics. In contrast to popular descriptions of ICTs as emancipatory and transformative, in the setting of an urban school, access produced extensive demands for attention, time, and information. This paper focuses on the labor of a group of student workers, Student Technology Leaders (STLs), and how they became responsible for the significant amount of repair and maintenance work involved in keeping hundreds of new computing devices available for use. An expanded process of accounting can more realistically frame issues of justice and its relationship to ICTs. I use a town hall meeting held with these students as an example of a processual vision of justice, one that encourages the beneficiaries of technological access to evaluate costs, benefits, and ethical concerns together.\n
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