Manifesting the Sociotechnical

Optional Reading List

Using this Reading List

We, the organizers of the FAT* '20 CRAFT session titled Manifesting the Sociotechnical, the slides of which can be found here, have compiled a list of resources we used while prepping and planning for the workshop. As mentioned, we envision the session to be a collective learning experience, so we are providing these resources for participant (and public) consumption both before and after the conference. Note that this is optional reading and all relevant information to the activities in the workshop will be provided during the session. If you have any resources you think would make a good addition to this list, let us know by emailing ezragoss (at) gatech (dot) edu!

Table of Contents

Power Analysis Readings

Title Author(s) Description
Dynamics and Power, Inclusion and Exclusion VeneKlasen and Miller In depth discussion of tools for teaching power analysis.
Power Analysis Trainer Training Ward and Thompson, US Action Concise set of tools for teaching power analysis.
Power cube Powerhouse Network -- see author recognition in each section. Set of online resources on power analysis in practice.
Power and Social Change Grassroots Policy Project Considerations of power and power analysis from a community organizing perspective.
Community Organizing Wikipedia and Power Wikipedia See Wikipedia contributors for each page Standard but helpful wikipedia entries on Community Organizing and Power respectively.

Data Justice Readings

Title Author(s) Description
Towards data justice: The ambiguity of anti-surveillance resistance in political activism Dencik et al Introducing the notion of data justice, these authors seek to "(re)conceptualize" fields concerning large-scale data collection in governance in a more expressly political perspective.

Design Justice Readings

Title Author(s) Description
Dynamics and Power, Inclusion and Exclusion VeneKlasen and Miller In depth discussion of tools for teaching power analysis.

Discrimination Law Reading

Title Author(s) Description
Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex:A Black Feminist Critique of AntidiscriminationDoctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics Crenshaw Early doctrinal paper focusing on failures in discrimination law with regard to intersections of different marginalized communities. Highlights key issues with 'if but for' notions of discrimination.

Hospital Readmission Background Readings

Title Author(s) Description
Changes to Racial Disparities in Readmission Rates After Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program Within Safety-Net and Non–Safety-Net Hospitals Chalyati et al Examines racial disparities in readmission rates between patients from both safety net and non-safety net hospitals. Reading the intro and conclusion should suffice for purposes of background context on the problem domain.
Building Community Governance of Risk Assessment Sassaman et al FAT* tutorial on "building an understanding of the experiences, needs and goals" involved in community governance over risk assessment.
The Medicare Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program: Potential Unintended Consequences for Hospitals Serving Vulnerable Populations Gu et al Explores the impact of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program on vulnerable populations. Reading the intro and conclusion should suffice for purposes of background context on the problem domain.