This course examines the cultural impact of new digital technologies such as the Internet and new telephonic and audiovisual media. We will survey the origins of digital communication and the Internet and engage closely with contemporary scholarship on digital technologies, the Internet, the institutions that control these technologies.
Juan Monroy
http://juanmonroy.com/newmedia
By appointment.
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet: the Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-line Pioneers. New York: Walker, 2007.
Wu, Tim. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. Creative Commons, 2005.
Morozov, Evgeny. To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism Paperback. New York: PublicAffairs, 2013.
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think. New York: Penguin, 2012.
Rainie, Harrison, and Barry Wellman. Networked: The New Social Operating System. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2012.
Rheingold, Howard. Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012.
Rushkoff, Douglas. Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age. New York: Soft Skull Press, 2011.
Shirky, Clay. Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators. New York: Penguin, 2011.
Vaidhyanathan, Siva. The Googlization of Everything: And Why We Should Worry. 1st ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Links to PDFs are available on the course website.