@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@ # Week 4 -**No lecture on Monday, but we do have a special lecture on Thursday (see [week 5](5.md)).** +## Lecture + +Readings +: - Spitzberg et al. (2020) +- Spitzberg and Schneider (2022) + +In this lecture, we will be joined by **Danny Spitzberg**. + +About our guest speaker: + +> [Danny Spitzberg](https://twitter.com/daspitzberg) leads user research for a cooperative economy. He currently works with [Turning Basin Labs](https://turningbasinlabs.com), a staffing and training cooperative, and is based in Oakland, California. Over the last few years he has created an original model for user- and worker-led co-design, a more efficient and lasting approach than mainstream inclusive design. Danny's background and training is in economic sociology and experimental research, and he has done applied research for over a decade. +> +> His work focuses on financial security, shared ownership, workforce development, and predistributive strategies of building wealth and power. Examples of participant-led research and design collaborations include conducting human factors field work in rural India around biomass energy; developing case studies and frameworks for credit unions and other member-led organizations worldwide to build shared leadership; and facilitating co-design for California ridehail drivers to effectively file over 5,000 wage claims through a custom-build spreadsheet tool and web app, which led to a $1.3b suit filed by the state. With [Tech Workers Coalition](https://techworkerscoalition.org), Danny also co-edits a newsletter and curates an oral history project about international labor in and around the digital tech and software industry. Danny believes in stories that brings people together for collective action. +> +> For more information, consider viewing Danny's talk [How Not to be an Advocate](https://joinlearners.com/talk/how-not-to-be-an-advocate) (UXRConf 2021). -## Tutorial +**No tutorials this week.** Homework -: - Come up with a fictional research scenario and complete the [EFF risk assessment](https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/your-security-plan) for that hypothetical scenario. Think about what skills or tools you would need to mitigate the risks you identified. -- Browse some of the following resources and write down a few ideas for what you would like to work on for your second assignment: - - - - - - - -During tutorials, you will discuss and plan the [second assignment](../assignments/2.md). This will require forming groups with two or three other students in your tutorial group and coming up with a contribution to the Hacking Ethnography collection. +: - Learn about the Crisis Text Line scandal by reading McNeil (2022) and at least one additional source of your own choice. +- Take some notes to prepare for the discussion in next week's tutorials.