We move about the world in multiple ways: physically, virtually, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually, and more. The spaces we inhabit help cultivate who we are and how we live, and are also created by who we are and how we live. This is reflexive in two senses: the spaces we interact with reflect us back to ourselves, and they can also spark a reflex reaction when they tap into our inner selves. Here are a few:
News and Views
“Human Learning” || Flipboard
“What Is Sociotechnology?” || Quality and Innovation
“A Sociology of the Smartphone” || Longreads
“As Technology Gets Better, Will Society Get Worse?” || New Yorker
“Will Smarter Phones Mean Dumber People?” || HuffPost
“Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” || The Atlantic
“Growing Up with Alexa” || MIT Technology Review
“The Impact of the Internet on Society” || Open Mind
“The World Beyond Your Head” || National Review
“The Future” (according to Kevin Kelly) || Forbes
“Who Own the Internet?” || The New Yorker
“Algorithms and Love” || Nipun Mehta, Daily Good
“The Dystopia We Signed Up For” || Chelsea Manning, NY Times
Compilations
“Technosociology” || Zeynep Tufekci
“How to Survive the Great Tech Panic” || WIRED
“Technology & Society” || Financial Times
“Technology and Society” || MIT News
“Technology News” || Popular Science
“Future Tech News” || TechRadar
“Future Tech” || Tech Times
“Future: Technology” || BBC
“Technology” || The Atlantic
“Recode” || VOX Media
“Spectrum: Technology” || IEEE
“Social Implications of Technology” (blog) || SSIT
“Wildtech: Technology for Conservation” || Mongabay
Networks and Forums
Sociotech.net || “understanding sociotechnical systems”
Urbanscale || “design for networked cities & citizens”
Society on Social Implications of Technology (IEEE-SSIT)
Full AI || “prevent AI limiting human self-determination”
Tech for Good || “technology with humankind in mind”
Data & Society || “social and cultural issues…”
Digital Citizenship || “using technology appropriately”
Time Well Spent || “demand technology that serves us…”
Theorizing the Web || “DIY conference on tech & society”
Mindful Technology || “for tech lovers … good humans”
Journals and Publications
Int’l Journal of Sociotechnology & Knowledge Development
Technology in Society: An International Journal
Science, Technology, and Society
Technology (the Journal)
Real Life Magazine (online)
Backchannel (WIRED)
Cyborgology (blog)
Bot! (zine)
Berkman Klein Center (papers & reports)