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Recommended Readings (and other resources) by Concept
Infodemiology
Munthe T, Madsen JK. Infodemiology. Spotify; 2021. [podcast]
Eysenbach G. Infodemiology and infoveillance: framework for an emerging set of public health informatics methods to analyze search, communication and publication behavior on the Internet. J Med Internet Res. 2009;11(1):e11. Published 2009 Mar 27. doi:10.2196/jmir.1157
Technology & Public Health
Landau SE. People Count: Contact-Tracing Apps and Public Health. The MIT Press; 2021.
Information Theory
Gleick, J. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. 1st Vintage Books ed., 2012. Vintage Books; 2011.
Data Justice
Barassi V. Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies Are Profiling Us from before Birth. The MIT Press; 2020.
D’Ignazio C, Klein LF. Data Feminism. The MIT Press; 2020.
Thinyane M. Operationalizing Data Justice in Health Informatics. In: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE); 2019. doi:10.23919/ITUK48006.2019.8996149
Privacy
Westin, A. Privacy and Freedom. The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; 1967.
Hartzog W, Selinger E. Surveillance as Loss of Obscurity. Washington and Lee Law Review. 2016;72.
Algorithmic Determinism
Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism. New York University Press.
O’Neil, C. (2016). Weapons of math destruction: How big data increases inequality and threatens democracy (First edition). Crown.