Here are a bunch of extra resources for the Fall 2017 Introduction to Digital Technology and Emerging Media course. The syllabus with its main readings is important but this is an attempt to collect the additional material that is otherwise only found on the closed course website. I also hope to use this as a storage space for links to new material that becomes available as the course progresses.
A good booklet on how many of our fundamental technologies work is McNamee et al, How the Internet Works: A guide for policy-makers. European Digital Rights. Also check out Julien Hopkins: How to Define Social Media – An Academic Summary.
Week 1
Twenge, J. Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?
Shwartz, A. Smartphones Have Destroyed More Than a Generation
Cavanagh, R. No, Smartphones are Not Destroying a Generation
Samuel, A. Yes Smartphones are destroying a generation, but not of kids
Tarnoff How the internet was invented
Video
Habermas & the Public Sphere
Global Digital Culture: Cultural Differences and the Internet
https://youtu.be/UNwnQkGpKPE
Week 2
Chayko Superconnected chap 2
Standage: Writing on the Wall Chap 2
Shapin What Else Is New? How uses, not innovations, drive human technology.
Milner, G. Nobody Knows What Lies Beneath New York City
Burrington, I. Seeing Networks in New York
Project Subway NYC X-Ray area maps
Mailland, J. Minitel, the Open Network Before the Internet
Video
Lessons from ancient social media | Tom Standage | TEDxOxbridge
Week 3
Chayko Superconnected chap 3
Jurgenson: The IRL Fetish The New Inquiry
Video
Computer Networks: Crash Course Computer Science #28
Are You Literally What You Post? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Is The Internet a Public Place?
Week 4
Chayko Superconnected chap 4
Newell et al: Privacy in the Family in Social Dimensions of Privacy
Leaver, T. ‘Born Digital? Presence, Privacy, and Intimate Surveillance’ in the Re-Orientation: Trans-lingual, Trans-cultural, Trans-media. Studies in narrative, language, identity, and knowledge
Marx “Your Papers Please”: Personal and Professional Encounters With Surveillance in D. Lyon, K. Ball and K. Haggerty (eds.) International Handbook of Surveillance Studies, Routledge, 2012
Zuboff, S. Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization. Journal of Information Technology (2015) 30, 75–89
The Birth And Death Of Privacy: 3,000 Years of History Told Through 46 Images
Video
Our evolving attitudes toward surveillance, secrets, and privacy – The New Yorker Festival
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
Week 5
Mossberger: Digital Citizenship
Nakamura, L. Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet. Chapter 5 Measuring Race on the Internet
Mossberger Digital Citizenship
Crawford: The New Digital Divide
Video
Net Neutrality: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Do “Digital Natives” Exist? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
The Internet of Civil Rights: the New Digital Divide | Brigitte Daniel | TEDxPhiladelphia
Week 6
Rettberg Walker: Seeing Ourselves Through Technology Chap1
Tiidenberg, K. Bringing sexy back: Reclaiming the body aesthetic via self-shooting
SEMIOTICS: The theory behind media literacy
Hess, A. The Selfie Assemblage, International Journal of Communication
Salty, J. Art at Arm’s Length: A History of the Selfie
Benjamin, R. Selfies are just the contemporary version of the art masters’ self-portraits
Murphy, K. What Selfie Sticks Really Tell Us About Ourselves
Monkey Selfie Subsection
Guadamuz, A. Monkey Selfie Case Settled Out of Court, Questions Remain
Fuller, S. Monkey selfie case finally settled – but there are many similar animal rights battles to come
Video
Young Women, Narcissism and the Selfie Phenomenon | Mary McGill | TEDxGalway
Wearables and how we measure ourselves through social media | Jill Walker Rettberg | TEDxBergen
What Is The Treachery of Images?
What is Semiotics? A short film by Creative Semiotics
Week 7
Chayko Superconnected chap 5
Tufekci, Z. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest chap 1 & 4
Video
Zeynep Tufekci: How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win
Social movements | Society and Culture | MCAT | Khan Academy
Week 8
Castells, Networks of outrage and hope social movements in the internet age, Prelude to Revolution
Klang & Madison: The domestication of online activism First Monday
Video
How Anonymous Hackers Changed the World – Full Documentary HD
Castells and the Network Society
Week 9
Chayko Superconnected chap 6
Thumim, N. Self-Representation and Digital Culture chap 6
Video
Representation & the Media: Featuring Stuart Hall
How Social Media Shapes Identity | Ulrike Schultze | TEDxSMU
Week 10
Chayko Superconnected chap 7
Week 11
Gillespie, T. The politics of ‘platforms’ New Media & Society
Nahon, K. Where there is Social Media there is Politics in Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics, Publisher: Routledge, Editors: Bruns A., Skogerbo E., Christensen C., Larsson O.A., Enli G.S.
Video
iLaw 2004: Lawrence Lessig on Regulation
Week 12
Chayko Superconnected chap 8
Lupton, D. Digital Risk Society in The Routledge Handbook of Risk Studies (2016), edited by Adam Burgess, Alberto Alemanno and Jens Zinn. London: Routledge, pp 301-309
Week 13
Gilmore, J. N. Everywear: The quantified self and wearable fitness technologies, New Media & Society
Ajana, B. Digital health and the biopolitics of the Quantified Self Digital Health.
Video
Gary Wolf: The quantified self
Wearable Tech Expands Human Potential | Lauren Constantini | TEDxMileHigh
How Much Can Data Improve Your Health? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
Week 14
Chayko Superconnected chap 9
Hayles, N. K. How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine ADA Bulletin
Marwick & Lewis: Media Manipulation And Disinformation Online
Chen, A. The Fake-News Fallacy
Week 15
Chayko Superconnected chap 10