COMMS 208 • Test #2 • 2026
Test Day!!
PLEASE:
- • All phones / devices OFF and stored in your bag
- Then➜ Leave your bag at the front of the class
- Then➜ Each student may take ONE test
- • Do NOT open test until instructed to do so
You may have with you:
- ✓ Handwritten notes covering ONE sheet of standard (A4) printer paper
- ✓ Pencils / Pens
- ✓ Optional: Printed dictionary
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COMMS 208 • Test #2 • 2026
New Reading List (Weeks 7-11)
- 15Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media (Zhuravskaya et al.)
- 16Algorithmic Decision-Making And Accountability Case Study (Kirchner / Stanford U.)
- 17AI Making Benefit Decisions (Keall)
- 18Bigger Brother (Tim Wu review of Zuboff)
- 19The Coup We Are Not Talking About (Zuboff/NYT)
- 20Will AI Take My Job? With Karen Hao (Minhaj)
- 21Deepfakes & Democracy (Benn)
- 22Chapter 16: Algorithmic Colonization of Africa (Birhane)
- 23Yellow Techno-Peril: The 'Clash of Civilizations' and Anti-Chinese Racial Rhetoric in the US-China AI Arms Race (Kerry McInerney)
- 24AI is trash (Anne Pasek)
- 25A New AI Lexicon: Maintenance (Anna Pendergrast and Kelly Pendergrast)
Old Reading List (Weeks 1-5)
- 1AI Essentials Canvas Course (UoA)
- 2Anatomy of an AI System (Crawford & Joler)
- 3Benefits of AI in healthcare for Aotearoa NZ: Summary (PMCSA)
- 4Physiognomy’s New Clothes (Agüera y Arcas, et al.)
- 5AI Ethics: Seven Traps (Zimmermann & Zevenbergen)
- 6Principles of Māori Data Sovereignty (Te Mana Raraunga)
- 7Data Feminism: The Power Chapter (D’Ignazio & Klein)
- 8Ethics & Info. Technology (Johnson & Miller)
- 9Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement (Murray)
- 10IP and Confucianism (Yu)
- 11Milestones in the History of Info. and Computer Ethics (Bynum)
- 12A Moral Panic: ChatGPT & the Gamification of Ed. (Kennedy)
- 13Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy (Ray & Guest)
- 14Contestation of Tech Ethics (Green)