Christoph Becker

@cbecker@hci.social
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Professor of Information studying just sustainability in IT: design, software, requirements, values, power, responsibility. Critical Systems Thinker, #TechOtherwise, just sustainability design, #degrowth.

Book INSOLVENT: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability @MIT Press 2023 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent
#T1D #PHPledge #MaskUp 🍉

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Bookhttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/insolvent
Personal websitehttps://christoph-becker.info/
Just Sustainability Design labjustsustainabilitydesign.org/
Keywordsjust sustainability design, social responsibility, ethics, values, politics, decision making, data curation, social aspects of software engineering
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Look what I just found at #Dagstuhl @savetheAI

Guess I won’t have coffee then. Gotta keep those shrimp Jesuses coming! #saveTheAI

Over the new year period I received news that my book "INSOLVENT: How to Reorient Computing for Just Sustainability" (MIT 2023) was selected a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. ✨ That's the second recognition for the book after being selected PROSE Award Finalist in Engineering and Technology 2024 so I'm feeling quite good about that. :)

😱 Who needs #halloween when you got a grant proposal to submit. I offer you

SCREAM SHARE (2024)

Brought to you by #NSERC
Building on the successful franchise of the Canadian Common CV 🧟‍♂️

(I swear the plot gets much scarier after this. IYKYK) #rant @academicchatter

📢 The Faculty of Information at UofT offers fully funded PhD student positions to study w/ me in the areas of #HCI, IT for sustainability, #CivicTech, #CSCW, Computing within Limits, ethical & responsible tech, alternative AI, & related areas. Deadline: Dec. 1 for Fall 2025 start.

Come join the Just Sustainability Design Lab! https://justsustainabilitydesign.org/lab/

@academicchatter #PhD #UofT #sustainableHCI #ComputingWithinLimits #Degrowth #TechOtherwise #RRI #ResponsibleComputing

JSD Lab

Technologies for Just and Sustainable Communities.

Let's get these names straightened out, shall we.
For all the Helenes and Miltons and everyone else.

#Helene #Milton #hurricane #climatechange #fossilfuel #JustStopOil

Rarely was there a more extreme illustration of the "Fixes that Fail" archetype than the suggestion that using chatbots to write more papers and write more peer reviews would be good for science. #LLM #generativeAI
Meanwhile we are approaching a break … does the shape of this CO2 chart look familiar? #co2 #CleanTheAir
And what could possibly be bad about THAT

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And paw strokes and drool

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Of cats and their fool 🎶

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