21.5. More Resources

We wanted to conclude by linking you to more resources that you might be interested, some of which we weren’t able to delve into in this book.

21.5.1. Recommended Articles

• A People’s History of Black Twitter [u15]

• There Is No Replacement for Black Twitter | WIRED [u16]

• Facebook won’t call itself a media company. Is it time to reimagine journalism for the digital age? [u17]

• Social media and science [u18], etc.

21.5.2. Recommended Books

• Gender specific

  • Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ingnazio and Lauren F. Klein [u19]

  • Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing by Janet Abbate [u20]

  • Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing by Mar Hicks [u21]

• Race specific

  • Black Software by Charlton D. McIlwain [u22]

  • Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne [u23] - Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism by Safiya Umoja Noble [u24]

  • Coded Bias (Netflix documentary) [u25]

• Content Moderation

  • Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media by Tarleton Gillespie [u26]

  • Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media by Sarah T. Roberts [u27]

• General Social Media

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media [u28]

• International programming

  • Coding Places: Software Practice in a South American City by Yuri Takhteyev [u29]

• Economics

  • Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor by Virginia Eubanks [u30]

  • Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass by Mary L. Gray [u31]

  • The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff [u32]

• Other ethics of tech books

  • Weapons Of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality And Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil [u33] -Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock [u34]

  • Your Computer Is on Fire [u35]

  • Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher [u36]

  • Media Ethics, Free Speech, and the Requirements of Democracy [u37]

  • Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want by Ruha Benjamin [u38]

21.5.3. Other Social Media Programming Options

Note: We haven’t tried these out yet, but we are pointing to what looks like the information you’d need to set yourself up:

• Facebook / Instagram / WhatsApp

  • Developer access: https://developers.facebook.com/ [u39]

  • Python library: https://facebook-sdk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html [u40]

• TikTok

  • Python library: https://dteather.com/TikTok-Api/docs/TikTokApi.html

  • TikTok for developers appears to be geared toward making apps people can use on their accounts: https://developers.tiktok.com/ [u41]

• QQ Weibo

  • Developer access (with some python code): https://developers.weixin.qq.com/doc/offiaccount/en/Getting_Started/Getting_Started_Guide.html [u42]