(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