Schedule_Fall2021

Week 1 – 9/1: Introductions

    Week 2 – 9/8: Looking Back

    • 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.
    • Winner, Langdon. “Do Artifacts Have Politics?” Daedalus 109, no. 1 (1980): 121–36.
    • Lessig, Lawrence. “Code Is Law: On Liberty in Cyberspace.” Harvard Magazine, January 1, 2000.

    Week 5 – 9/29: Approaches III (Intersectionality)

    • 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.
    • Crawford, Kate. “Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem.The New York Times, June 25, 2016.

    Week 6 – 10/6: Issues I (Internet Culture)

    Week 7 – 10/13: Issues II (Digital Business)

    Week 8 – 10/20: Issues III (Social Media)

    • 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.
    • Klein, Ezra. “How Technology Is Designed to Bring out the Worst in Us.” The Ezra Klein Show, February 19, 2018. [Podcast]
    • Tufekci, Zeynep. “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer.The New York Times, March 10, 2018.

    Week 9 – 10/27

    • No class: Individual Paper Meetings (by appointment)

    Week 10 – 11/3: Views I

    • Eggers, Dave. The Circle. Knopf, 2013. [Fiction]

    Week 11 – 11/10: Views II

    • Lynch, Michael P. The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data. New York: Liveright, 2016.

    Week 12 – 11/17: Views III

    • Her. 2014. [Film]
    • White Christmas. Black Mirror. 2014 [Television]

    Week 13 – 11/24

    • No Class – Thanksgiving

    Week 14 – 12/1: Looking Ahead

    Week 15 – 12/8

    • No Class – Papers Due Friday 12/10