Weekly Reading (2020/09/08)

Selections from the Web:

• Adam Tooze: The Sociologist Who Could Save Us From Coronavirus
• Blair McClendon: A Gathering of Wolves
• Christopher Clark: Libya’s Storms of History
• Héctor Tobar: East of the Eastside
• Irina Dumitrescu: How to Read Aloud
• Maya Lau: Police PR Comes Under Scrutiny for Inaccurate Reporting, Pro-Cop Bias
• Paul Taylor: Ofqual and the Algorithm
• Susan Orlean: The Rabbit Outbreak
• Tom Stevenson: The US Had Other Ideas

From the Archives:

• Kim Phillips-Fein: Lotteryville, USA (1995)

Books and Journal Articles:

Journal Articles and Chapters:

• Abeba Birhane: “Algorithmic Colonization of Africa,” SCRIPTed, (2020)
• Andreas Pickel: “Rethinking Systems Theory,” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, (2007)
• Robert K. Merton: “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy,” The Antioch Review, (1948)
• Robert K. Merton: “The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action,” American Sociological Review, (1936)
• Steven Yearley: “Computer Models and the Public’s Understanding of Science,” Social Studies of Science, (1999)

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Title image: Istivan Banyai: Illustration from “Workstation Amiga,” AmigaWorld Magazine, August 1988, (1988)

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