Digital Media & Advocacy

(DTEM3475) Fall19 Readings & Material. Syllabus is here.

A little technology

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.

The Internet: Wires, Cables & Wifi – https://youtu.be/ZhEf7e4kopM

Zeynep Tufekci, “Is The Internet Good or Bad? Yes.”  https://medium.com/matter/is-the-internetgood-or-bad-yes-76d9913c6011#.84en6mshr

Badalge (2017) Our phones make us feel like social-media activists, but they’re actually turning us into bystanders Quartz

Aaron Smith (Pew Research Center), “Civic Engagement in the Digital Age.” http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/04/25/civic-engagement-in-the-digital-age/

The Digital CultureSHIFT: From Scale to Power. http://centerformediajustice.org/digital-cultureshift-from-scale-to-power/

Marisa Franco, B. Loewe and Tania Unzueta, “How We Make Change is Changing: Open Source Campaigns for the 21st Century” https://medium.com/organizer-sandbox/how-we-make-changeis-changing-part-i-5326186575e6  and  https://medium.com/@marisa_franco/how-we-makechange-is-changing-part-ii-7a5ca6170a9e#.jpy2t9x6c

Public Space & Civil Disobedience

Thoreau (1849) Civil Disobedience

King (1963) Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Episode #083 Henry David Thoreau – https://youtu.be/Kl1Ao4PJa-I

Civil Disobedience – https://youtu.be/elrTpoY6AYQ

Thoreau and Civil Disobedience – https://youtu.be/gugnXTN6-D4

Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail – https://youtu.be/s5Y-64GJT8E

Is The Internet a Public Place? – https://youtu.be/FmZbdaqGqlc

Magro (2017) Australians don’t loiter in public space – the legacy of colonial control by design The Conversation

Social Movements

Wikipedia Entry for Social Movements  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movement

Social movements | Society and Culture | MCAT | Khan Academy – https://youtu.be/y7YPTD7QwR4

Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms, “Understanding New Power” https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-new-power

Growing participatory and deliberative democracy animation (2010) https://youtu.be/dl85BhsYAcQ

Evgeny Morozov, “Why Social Movements Should Ignore Social Media” https://newrepublic.com/article/112189/social-media-doesnt-always-help-social-movements

How online social movements translate to offline results https://youtu.be/_DTOc1uMOIU

Networks of Outrage and Hope – Manuel Castells https://youtu.be/X8m66tNPUb0

Movements

History Brief: The Temperance Movement https://youtu.be/08_Ho_pkUVA

Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course US History #16 https://youtu.be/fM1czS_VYDI

Women’s Movement USA – 1950s-60s https://youtu.be/amZD8XxTsjQ

Documentary on Women’s Liberation Movement https://youtu.be/EOsLjbpHV8M

How We Got Gay (Full Documentary) https://youtu.be/foQrmKRUFgg

What you need to know about the gay rights movement https://youtu.be/WcOzarSpTMk

The new frontier of LGBTQ civil rights, explained https://youtu.be/YCjDnX-Xzhg

BLM

Coates, T. “The case for reparations. The Atlantic June.” (2014). https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/

Ross, Janell. “How Black Lives Matter moved from a hashtag to a real political force.” The Washington Post (2015).

“Our Demand is Simple: Stop Killing Us” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/magazine/ourdemand-is-simple-stop-killing-us.html

“How Black Lives Matter moved from a hashtag to a real political force” http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/19/how-black-lives-matter-movedfrom-a-hashtag-to-a-real-political-force/

“When Black Lives Matter Met Clinton: Activists Speak Out on Challenging Candidate over Crime Record http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/19/when_black_lives_matter_met_clinton

Black Lives Matter Organizer Explains Movement To Older White Americans Using Sailing Metaphors https://youtu.be/AIZiN65xgsM

Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement documentary (2016) https://youtu.be/eIoYtKOqxeU

Occupy

Fault Lines – History of an occupation https://youtu.be/K4VLYGfGDZg

History of Environmentalism

How Rachel Carson Launched The Environmental Movement

A History of the Green Movement in Europe | mygreenlearning.eu

Chicano! PBS Documentary Fighting For Political Power

The Chicano Movement In Texas – NHD Documentary

National History Day 2018 – Centuries of Broken Treaties: The American Indian Movement

Turning point in US anti-war movement

The 20th Century: Vietnam Protest Movement

Protests & Riots

Zoot Suit Riots: Causes and Riots

Rodney King Beating LA Riots TV Special with Mike Wallace

50 years on, a look back at the Watts riots

Detroit 1967: When a city went up in flames

Tulsa Race Massacre

What Caused the Atlanta Race Riots?

The Civil War Draft Riots (Documentary)

STUFF

Semiotics: Making Meaning from Signs, Symbols, Icons, Index | LittleArtTalks https://youtu.be/aGYOHKCigAo

Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks  https://youtu.be/2U-tOghblfE

Identity Theory vs. Social Identity Theory https://youtu.be/MUs_Y3z-I7c

WHAT DO TRUMP RALLIES AND HIP HOP HAVE IN COMMON? https://youtu.be/g8TtcvoNsUI

Technological Control

Will Oremus, “Who Controls Your Facebook Feed” http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/01/how_facebook_s_news_feed_algorithm_works.html

Alex Hern, “Google ‘bug’ buries competitors Yelp and TripAdvisor” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/25/google-bug-buries-yelp-tripadvisor-search

Adam Ruins Everything – Why Partisan Politics Have Been on the Rise since the 1960’s https://youtu.be/o0FnrhNx9z0

Is America More Divided Than Ever? https://youtu.be/JRa5l_LQ32s