Citation
Graeff, E & Chowdhary, S. 2021. “Design Refusal as Public Interest Technology.” Presented at A Better Tech: Public Interest Technology Convention & Career Fair, New York University, virtual, Oct 15.
Category: speaking
The Responsibility to Not Design and the Need for Civic Professionalism
Citation
Graeff, Erhardt. 2020 (December 16). The Responsibility to Not Design and the Need for Civic Professionalism. BOW Big Ideas. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1qQCKGjpZg.
Presentation Recording
Slides
Real World PIT Applications For Students
Cumiskey, K, Garvin, L, Graeff, E, & Johnson, G. 2020. Panel: “Real World Applications for IT Students.” Presented at the Public Interest Technology University Network 2020 Virtual Convening, Nov 13.
Video
Care and Liberation in Creating a Student-Led Public Interest Technology Clinic (ISTAS)
Recommended Citation
S. Chowdhary, S. Daitzman, R. Eisenbud, E. Pan and E. Graeff, “Care and Liberation in Creating a Student-Led Public Interest Technology Clinic,” 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 2020, pp. 164-175, doi: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462188.
Link
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9462188
Abstract
The emerging field of Public Interest Technology contains the seeds for an engineering practice that embodies the ethic of care and undergraduate engineering educational experiences in the mold of liberatory education. We realized these opportunities by creating an undergraduate, student-led public interest technology clinic. Using autoethnography, we reflect on our effort to create the clinic and find that we prioritized emotions and relationships, embraced slowness and deliberation, and claimed student ownership. These practices define public interest technology and redefine engineering in ways centering care and equity, which enabled us to create the inclusive and effective engineering and public interest technology educational experiences we wanted for ourselves.
Collective Organizing and Social Responsibility at CSCW
Devansh Saxena, Erhardt Graeff, Shion Guha, EunJeong Cheon, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Dawn Walker, Christoph Becker, and Kenneth R. Fleischmann. 2020. Collective Organizing and Social Responsibility at CSCW. In Conference Companion Publication of the 2020 on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’20 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 503–509. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406865.3418593
Link
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3406865.3418593
Abstract
The CSCW community has long discussed the ethics and politics of sociotechnical systems and how they become embedded in society and public policy. In light of the Black Lives Matter protests and Hong Kong protests, technologies such as facial recognition and contact tracing have re-invigorated conversations about the ethical and social responsibility of tech corporations, tech workers, and academics in science and technology. The goal of this workshop is to move beyond a call for the usual suspects of participatory design and human-centered design by committing to concrete steps to transform society through advocacy and activism.