ENGL 391 (Section 001, Schedule #32076)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Spring 2015
TTh 11:00am-12:15pm :: 264 Hibbs
Prof. David Golumbia
Office: 324D Hibbs Hall
Spr 2015 Office Hours: Tues 1:00-3:30pm

Digital Studies

Complete Reading List

A complete list of all readings for the course, with full citation information for use in papers. In alphabetical order by the last name of the first author listed, and within each author by the title of the reading.

• Elias Aboujouade, "Delusions of Grandeur." Chapter 2 of Aboujouade, Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality. New York: Norton, 2011.
• Elias Aboujouade, "E-Personality." Chapter 1 of Aboujouade, Virtually You: The Dangerous Powers of the E-Personality. New York: Norton, 2011.
• Mark Andrejevic, "Social Network Exploitation." In Zizi Papacharissi, ed., A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites. New York: Routledge, 2011. 82-101.
• Mark Andrejevic, "Surveillance in the Big Data Era." In Kenneth D. Pimple, ed., Emerging Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies (PICT): Ethical Challenges, Opportunities, and Safeguards. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. 55-70.
• Mark Andrejevic, "The Work of Watching One Another: Lateral Surveillance, Risk, and Governance." Surveillance & Society 2:4 (2004). 479-497.
• Julia Angwin, "It's Complicated: Facebook's History of Tracking You." ProPublica (Jun 17, 2014). http://www.propublica.org/article/its-complicated-facebooks-history-of-tracking-you.
• Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, "The Californian Ideology." Mute 3 (Autumn 1995). http://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology.
• Lois Beckett, "Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You." ProPublica (Jun 13, 2014). https://www.propublica.org/article/everything-we-know-about-what-data-brokers-know-about-you.
• Drake Bennett, "Clayton Christensen Responds to New Yorker Takedown of 'Disruptive Innovation.'" Bloomberg Business (Jun 20, 2014). http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-06-20/clayton-christensen-responds-to-new-yorker-takedown-of-disruptive-innovation.
• Natalie Boero and C. J. Pascoe, "Pro-Anorexia Communities and Online Interaction: Bringing the Pro-Ana Body Online." Body & Society 18:2 (June 2012). 27-57.
• Simone Browne, "Race and Surveillance." In Kirstie Ball, Kevin Haggerty, and David Lyon, eds. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. New York: Routledge, 2012. 72-79.
• Nicholas Carr, "On Autopilot." Chapter 3 of Carr, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us. New York: Norton, 2014. 43-64.
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, "Race and/as Technology." In Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White, eds., Race After the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2012. 38-60.
• Danielle Citron, "Civil Rights in Our Information Age." In Saul Levmore and Martha Nussbaum, eds., The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy, and Reputation. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. 31-49.
• Danielle Citron and Frank Pasquale, "The Scored Society: Due Process for Automated Predictions." University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014 – 8. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2376209.
• Mark Coté and Jennifer Pybus, "Learning to Immaterial Labor 2.0: MySpace and Social Networks." Ephemera 7:1 (2007). 88-106.
• James Curran, "Reinterpreting the Internet." Chapter 1 of James Curran, Natalie Fenton, and Des Freedman, Misunderstanding the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Adam Curtis, dir. All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace. Three Parts. United Kingdom: BBC, 2011.
• Jessie Daniels, "Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment." WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly 37:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2009). 101-124.
• Jodi Dean, "Why the Net Is Not a Public Sphere." Constellations 10:1 (2003). 95-112.
• Charlene deGuzman and Miles Crawford, "I Forgot My iPhone." Video. YouTube (Aug 22, 2013). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8.
• Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control." October 59 (Winter 1992). 3-7.
• Stefano De Paoli, "Automatic-Play and Player Deskilling in MMORPGs." Game Studies 13:1 (September 2013). http://gamestudies.org/1301/articles/depaoli_automatic_play.
• Erasmuslijn, "Dread Techlord: Why to Worry about the Dark Enlightenment." Erasmuslijn (May 27, 2014). https://erasmuslijn.wordpress.com/2014/05/27/dread-techlord-why-to-worry-about-the-dark-enlightenment/.
• Des Freedman, "Web 2.0 and the Death of the Blockbuster Economy." Chapter 3 of James Curran, Natalie Fenton, and Des Freedman, Misunderstanding the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2012.
• Rayvon Fouché, "From Black Inventors to One Laptop Per Child: Exporting a Racial Politics of Technology." In Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White, eds., Race After the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2012. 61-84.
• Christian Fuchs, "Class and Exploitation on the Internet." In Trebor Scholz, ed., Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory. New York: Routledge, 2012. 211-224.
• Alexander Galloway, "Can the Whatever Speak?" In Lisa Nakamura and Peter A. Chow-White, eds., Race After the Internet. New York: Routledge, 2012. 111-127.
• Michael Hardt, "Annotated 'Postscript on the Societies of Control.'" Rap Genius (no date). http://genius.com/Gilles-deleuze-postscript-on-the-societies-of-control-annotated.
• Rob Horning, "Google Alert for the Soul." The New Inquiry (Apr 12, 2013). http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/google-alert-for-the-soul/.
• Rob Horning, "Information Inundation and Social Deskilling." The New Inquiry (Jun 1, 2012). http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/information-inundation-and-social-deskilling/.
• Rob Horning, "Liquid Modernity and Social Media." The New Inquiry (Sep 18, 2012). http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/liquid-modernity-and-social-media/.
• Rob Horning, "The Silence of the Masses Could Be Social Media." The New Inquiry (Aug 5, 2014). http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/the-silence-of-the-masses-could-be-social-media/.
• Rob Horning, "Social Media Is Not Self-Expression." The New Inquiry (Nov 14, 2014). http://thenewinquiry.com/blogs/marginal-utility/social-media-is-not-self-expression/.
• Elise Hu, "Our Cultural Addiction to Phones, in One Disconcerting Video." NPR All Tech Considered (Sep 5, 2013). http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/09/05/219266779/our-cultural-addiction-to-phones-in-one-disconcerting-video.
• Human Kinetics, "Technology Can Have Positive and Negative Impact on Social Interactions." Human Kinetics (no date). http://www.humankinetics.com/excerpts/excerpts/technology-can-have-positive-and-negative-impact-on-social-interactions.
• Brad Hunter, "The Subtle Benefits of Face-to-Face Communication." Paper for Todd Davies, Symbolic Systems course, Stanford University, 2007. http://web.stanford.edu/class/symbsys205/facetoface.html.
• Olu Jenzen and Irmi Karl, "Make, Share, Care: Social Media and LGBTQ Youth Engagement." Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology 5 (July 2014). http://adanewmedia.org/2014/07/issue5-jenzenkarl/.
• Jaron Lanier, "The Internet Destroyed the Middle Class (Interview with Scott Timberg)." Salon (May 12, 2013). http://www.salon.com/2013/05/12/jaron_lanier_the_internet_destroyed_the_middle_class/.
• Jill LePore, "The Disruption Machine: What the Gospel of Innovation Gets Wrong." The New Yorker (Jun 23, 2014). http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/23/the-disruption-machine.
• Evgeny Morozov, "Internet Freedoms and their Consequences." Chapter 9 of Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
• Evgeny Morozov, "The Nonsense of 'The Internet'—and How to Stop It." Chapter 2 of Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013.
• Evgeny Morozov, "Open and Closed." The New York Times (March 16, 2013). http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/17/opinion/sunday/morozov-open-and-closed.html.
• Evgeny Morozov, "Open Networks, Narrow Minds: Cultural Contradictions of Internet Freedom." Chapter 8 of Morozov, The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. New York: PublicAffairs, 2011.
• Evgeny Morozov, "Who's the True Enemy of Internet Freedom—China, Russia, or the US?." The Guardian (Jan 3, 2015). http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/04/internet-freedom-china-russia-us-google-microsoft-digital-sovereignty.
• Frank Pasquale, "The Dark Market for Personal Data." The New York Times (Oct 16, 2014). http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/opinion/the-dark-market-for-personal-data.html.
• Robert Payne, "Frictionless Sharing and Digital Promiscuity." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (2014). 1-18.
• Corey Pein, "Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich." The Baffler (May 19, 2014). http://www.thebaffler.com/blog/mouthbreathing-machiavellis.
• Kavita Philip, Lily Irani and Paul Dourish, "Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey." Science, Technology, & Human Values 37:1 (Jan 2012). 3-29
• Sue Rosser, "Through the Lenses of Feminist Theory: Focus on Women and Information Technology." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 26:1 (2005). 1-23.
• LM Sacasas, "10 Points of Unsolicited Advice for Tech Writers." The Frailest Thing (March 30, 2014). http://thefrailestthing.com/2014/03/30/10-points-of-unsolicited-advice-for-technology-writers/.
• Christian Sandvig, "Corrupt Personalization." Multicast (Jun 26, 2014). http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/niftyc/archives/1003.
• Sasha Shepperd and Deborah Charnock, "Against Internet Exceptionalism." BMJ (Mar 9, 2002). 556-557.
• Tiziana Terranova, "Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy." Social Text 63 (Summer 2000). 33-58.
• Nathaniel Tkacz, "From Open Source to Open Government: A Critique of Open Politics." Ephemera: Theory & Politics in Organization 12:4 (2012). 386-405.
• Siva Vaidhyanathan, "The Googlization of the World: Prospects for a Global Public Sphere." Chapter 4 of Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2011. 115-148.
• Audrey Watters, "From 'Open' to Justice." Hacked Education (Nov 16, 2014). http://hackeducation.com/2014/11/16/from-open-to-justice/.
• Audrey Watters, "The Myth and Millenialism of 'Disruptive Innovation.'" Hacked Education (May 24, 2013). http://hackeducation.com/2013/05/24/disruptive-innovation/.
• Langdon Winner, "Cyberlibertarian Myths and the Prospect for Community." Computers and Society (September 1997). 14-19.

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