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The article “Open systems and glass ceilings. The disappearing woman and life on the internet” by Astra Taylor was published in 2010. In this article Taylor reports a general view and examples of gender discrimination. She covers briefly what is going on both, the virtual realm as well as in real life. Taylor mentions several discrimination issues taking place on different spaces of the Internet, such as blogs and social media platforms. She argues that Internet is not an equal ground for men and women nor for racial diversity. Her stronger points are how women are victim of harassment usually by men and that this behavior is not taken seriously just because it’s happening online. And if gender is  linked to race then the situation turns to the worse for women. In the real life realm, Taylor is critical toward companies that take too long to hire women in executive positions. She also mentions, based on a study by another researcher a decreased interest by women on technological careers as low as 18% by 2008. It leaves the readers to wonder if there is a correlated issue taking place: women are discouraged in making tech careers decisions because they are not taken into the technological labor market. Although, this author is very critical about technology, she also believes and encourages all to engage in changing the negative dynamics taking place on Internet and the tech world.

The article “How the NYPD is using social media to put Harlem teens behind bars” by Ben Popper was published online in The Verge on December 10, 2014. It deals with the gang issues in Harlem in the city of New York. The author reports the use of social media information such as Facebook, Instagram, MySpace  and You tube by NYPD, New York Police Department as evidence for teenager’s participation in crime activities as well as, how this kind of usage turns into unlawful biased judicial treatment.  Ben Popper tells us the story of two brothers Asheem and Jelani Henry who grew up in Harlem and how as teenagers they got involved in gang activities.  The author also takes notice in his article of how authorities based their charges and handled the information gathered from social media platforms to hold it against both brothers.  This is both an interpretative  and ethical  article. As an interpretative article the author reports and quotes from the interviews he did to both brothers and their mother. As an ethical article the author poses the question about the wrongful maneuver that authorities made to build up the case against Asheem and Jelani Henry who although were involved in criminal activities, they still have the right  to be accountable for what they did and not for what they didn’t. The author might lead to some of us to reflect about how these actions might pollute the justice system and generate mistrust. Popper mentions in his article  the criminal justice system, police and prosecutors as  responsible for wrongful legal procedures and the family of the Henry brothers who are willing to fight through the innocence of Asheem and Jelani.

“Let them eat code” is an article written by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian and published online on Dissent Magazine during Spring 2014. This is an interpretative and ethical article that analyses the issue of homelessness in general and its relation to technology in United States. The author based her writings on interviews with entrepreneurs  from the tech world as well as a homeless person. The subject of discussion for her is how technology can contribute in effective ways to an overwhelming social problem such as homelessness. In this sense, she mentions as an example how the tech people decided to hire homeless as internet hot spots. Then the debate and critique about the ethical aspect of using the homeless as  work force began to rise. The author takes into account the homeless person statement and quotes him in terms that he didn’t see anything wrong with it, because “it is just a job”.  The author through this article allows us to rethink about our sensitivity about the human condition.