Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen

By
Sarah T. Roberts
Sarah T. Roberts
2019 • 289 pages

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21 books

Tech Reading List

nikvi
Nikki Vinayan
Technically Wrong
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Black Software
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
Race after Technology Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

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326 books

Nonfiction

bugbear
Adam
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
No god but God
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't
Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Blunders: A Complete Guide to the Worst Decisions and Stupidest Moments in Baseball History
Crossworld

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23 books

Labor

bugbear
Adam
Ghost Work
Detroit
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Behind the Screen
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Fulfillment

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28 books

Technology

bugbear
Adam
The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech
Ghost Work
Calling Bullshit : The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World
The Internet Is Not the Anwer
Silicon Values
Behind the Screen
Hard Drive

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15 books

Sociology

bugbear
Adam
Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Educated Underclass: Students and the False Promise of Social Mobility
Behind the Screen
The Invisible Heart
Thicker Than Blood: How Racial Statistics Lie
White Logic, White Methods

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156 books

Non Fiction

katebrarian
Kate
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The numerati
Quiet, Please
The Psychopath Test

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254 books

Lady Writer

katebrarian
Kate
Blood: A Scientific Romance
Monument 14
Stir-Fry
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
A Complicated Kindness
The Love Monster

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129 books

American Author

katebrarian
Kate
Rogue Moon
My brother's name
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Lives of the Monster Dogs
Serena
The Fault in Our Stars
The last animal

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9 books

Queer Author

katebrarian
Kate
Love Enough
The Boy & The Bindi
Queer
A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
Behind the Screen
Language Unlimited: The Science Behind Our Most Creative Power

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5 books

Mental Illness

katebrarian
Kate
My brother's name
Café Babanussa: A Novel
Behind the Screen
The Rapture
A Stitch of Time: The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life

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1 book

Internet

katebrarian
Kate
Behind the Screen