Poe, Marshall T. A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet. Illustrated edition. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Week 3 – 9/15: Approaches I (History and Sociology)
Marx, Leo. “Technology: The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept.” Technology and Culture 51, no. 3 (2010): 561–77.
Light, Jennifer S. “When Computers Were Women.” Technology and Culture 40, no. 3 (1999): 455–83.
Kline, Ronald, and Trevor Pinch. “Users as Agents of Technological Change: The Social Construction of the Automobile in the Rural United States.” Technology and Culture 37, no. 4 (1996): 763–95.
Johnson, Jim. “Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer.” Social Problems 35, no. 3 (1988): 298–310.
Week 4 – 9/22: Approaches II (Anthropology, Politics, and Law)
Coleman, E. Gabriella. “Ethnographic Approaches to Digital Media.” Annual Review of Anthropology 39, no. 1 (2010): 487–505.
Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto,” in Manifestly Haraway. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2016, 3–90.
Noble, Safiya Umoja. “Searching for Black Girls” in Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York, New York University Press, 2018, 64-109.
Tufekci, Zeynep, and Christopher Wilson. “Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square.” Journal of Communication 62, no. 2 (2012): 363–79.
Marwick, Alice E., and danah boyd. “Networked Privacy: How Teenagers Negotiate Context in Social Media.” New Media & Society 16, no. 7 (2014): 1051–67.