Book Clubs

2022

• Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism by Christo Sims

• More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave by Ruth Schwartz Cowan

• Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan edited by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh

• The Design of Everyday Things, Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman

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

2023

• Power On! by Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, illustrated by Charis JB

• Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein

• Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need by Sasha Costanza-Chock

• More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard

• Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil

• Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant

2024

• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman

• Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini

• Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin

• Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

• Access Is Capture: How Edtech Reproduces Racial Inequality by Roderic N. Crooks

2025

• The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy by Francesca Bolla Tripodi

• Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

• Building the Innovation School: Infrastructures for Equity in Today’s Classrooms by T. Philip Nichols

• The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna

• Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI by Karen Hao

• Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

• Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence by Dan McQuillan

2026

• Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms: A Practical Guide for Cultivating Justice and Joy by Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie K. Heath

• Techno-Negative: A Long History of Refusing the Machine by Thomas Dekeyser

• Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools by Natasha Singer