{"id":170,"date":"2014-01-26T19:48:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karanovic.org\/blog\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T00:17:46","slug":"digital-media-intro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.karanovic.org\/blog\/digital-media-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Digital Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Schedule of Readings for the Spring 2014 Semester<\/h5>\n<p>Dr. Jelena Karanovic<br \/>\nAdjunct Assistant Professor<br \/>\nDepartment of Media, Culture and Communication<br \/>\nNew York University<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Week 1: What do we mean by digital media?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lev Manovich. 2001. What is New Media? In <em>The Language of New Media<\/em>. Cambridge: MIT Press.<\/li>\n<li>Ginsburg, Faye. 2008. Rethinking the Digital Age. In <em>The Media and Social Theory<\/em>, 127-144. David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee, eds. New York: Routledge.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Week 2: Novelty and obsolescence of digital media<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bolter, David, and Richard Grusin. 1999. Introduction and Chapter 1. In <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?ttype=2&amp;tid=3468&amp;mode=toc\"><em>Remediation: Understanding New Media<\/em><\/a>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Cohen, Kris. 2005. \u201cWhat Does the Photoblog Want?\u201d Media, Culture &amp; Society 27 (6): 883 -901.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sterne, Jonathan. 2007. \u201cOut with the Trash: On the Future of New Media.\u201d In <em>Residual Media<\/em>. Charles Acland, ed. pp. 16-31.<\/li>\n<li>Parks, Lisa. 2004. \u201cKinetic Screens: Epistemologies of Movement at the Interface.\u201d In <em>MediaSpace: Place, Scale and Culture in a Media Age<\/em>, ed. Nick Couldry and Anna McCarthy. London: Routledge. pp. 37-57.<\/li>\n<li>YesLab and MolleIndustria. 2011. \u201cPhone Story.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/yeslab.org\/project\/phone-story\">http:\/\/yeslab.org\/project\/phone-story<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Small Team Presentation:<\/strong> Zhao, Michael. 2009. \u201ceDump.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelzhao.net\/eDump\/\">http:\/\/michaelzhao.net\/eDump\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Week 3: Digital media and social change<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edwards, Paul. 1996. \u201cWhy Build Computers?: The Military Role in Computer Research.\u201d In <em>The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 43-73.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Light, Jennifer. 1999. \u201cWhen Computers Were Women.\u201d <em>Technology and Culture<\/em> 40: 455-483.<\/li>\n<li type=\"_moz\">Turner, Fred. 2006. &#8220;How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology: Lessons from the First Hacker&#8217;s Conference.&#8221; In <em>Critical Cyberculture Studies<\/em>. David Silver and Adrienne Massanari, eds. New York: NYU Press. pp. 257-269.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Abbate, Janet. 2012. <em>Recoding Gender: Women&#8217;s Changing Participation in Computing<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Goldsmith, Jack L., and Tim Wu. 2006. Preface and Introduction. In <em>Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World<\/em>. Oxford: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 4: The politics of data, databases and algorithms<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gillespie, Tarleton. 2013. \u201cThe Relevance of Algorithms.\u201d In <em>Media Technologies: Essays on Communication, Materiality, and Society<\/em>. Ed. Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo Boczkowski, and Kirsten Foot. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.<\/li>\n<li>Pentland, Alex. 2012. \u201cReinventing Society in the Wake of Big Data.\u201d Edge.org. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/reinventing-society-in-the-wake-of-big-data\">http:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/reinventing-society-in-the-wake-of-big-data<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Small team presentation:<\/strong> \u201cDigital Dynamics across Cultures,\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/vectorsjournal.org\/projects\/index.php?project=67 \">http:\/\/vectorsjournal.org\/projects\/index.php?project=67 <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raley, Rita. 2013. \u201cDataveillance and Countervailance.\u201d In <em>\u201cRaw Data\u201d Is an Oxymoron<\/em>, edited by Lisa Gitelman, 121\u2013145. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 121-145.<\/li>\n<li>Brunton, Finn, and Helen Nissenbaum. 2011. \u201cVernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation.\u201d <em>First Monday<\/em> 16 (5). <a href=\"http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/article\/view\/3493\/2955\">http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/article\/view\/3493\/2955<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Small team presentation:<\/strong> \u201cWhat They Know,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/wtk\/\">http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/wtk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 5: Network<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zittrain, Jonathan. 2008. Preface, Introduction, and Chapter 2 in <a href=\"http:\/\/yupnet.org\/zittrain\"><em>The Future of the Internet&#8211;And How to Stop It<\/em>.<\/a> New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. ix-x, 1-5, and 19-35.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Benkler, Yochai, and Helen Nissenbaum. 2006. \u201cCommons-based Peer Production and Virtue.\u201d <em>The Journal of Political Philosophy<\/em> 14 (4): 394\u2013419.<\/li>\n<li>Burgess, Jean. 2008. \u201cAll Your Chocolate Rain Are Belong to Us\u201d? In <em>Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube, ed. Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer<\/em>. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures. pp. 101-109. <a href=\"http:\/\/networkcultures.org\/wpmu\/portal\/files\/2008\/10\/vv_reader_small.pdf \">http:\/\/networkcultures.org\/wpmu\/portal\/files\/2008\/10\/vv_reader_small.pdf <\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Albert-L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Barab\u00e1si. 2002. <em>Linked: The New Science of Networks<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: Perseus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 6: Networked intimacy <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Madianou, Mirca, and Daniel Miller. 2011. \u201cMobile phone parenting: Reconfiguring relationships between Filipina migrant mothers and their left-behind children.\u201d <em>New Media &amp; Society<\/em> 13 (3): 457-470.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gershon, Ilana. 2010. \u201cBreaking Up in a Public.\u201d In <em>The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media<\/em>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. pp. 165-196.<\/li>\n<li>Thompson, Clive. 2008. Brave New World of Digital Intimacy. <em>The New York Times<\/em>, September 7, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 7: Networked activism<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>Session 1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shirky, Clay. 2008. \u201cIt Takes a Village to Find a Phone.\u201d In <em>Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations<\/em>. New York: Penguin. pp. 1-25.<\/li>\n<li>Downey, Tom. 2010. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/07\/magazine\/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=magazine\">\u201cChina\u2019s Cyberposse.\u201d<\/a> <em>The New York Times<\/em>. http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/07\/magazine\/07Human-t.html?pagewanted=1&amp;ref=magazine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tufekci, Zeynep, and Christopher Wilson. 2012. \u201cSocial Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest: Observations From Tahrir Square.\u201d <em>Journal of Communication<\/em> 62 (2): 363\u2013379.<\/li>\n<li>Coleman, Gabriella. 2011. \u201cAnonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action.\u201d <em>The New Everyday: A Media Commons Project<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/tne\/pieces\/anonymous-lulz-collective-action\">http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/tne\/pieces\/anonymous-lulz-collective-action<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Scholz, Trebor. 2008. Where the Activism Is. In <em>Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times<\/em>, ed. Megan Boler. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. pp. 355-365.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> MacKinnon, Rebecca. 2012. <em>Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom<\/em>. New York: Basic Books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 8: Networked journalism<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In-class screening:<\/strong> Sloan, Robin, and Matt Thompson. 2007. \u201cEPIC 2015.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Anderson, C. W. 2012. \u201cFrom Indymedia to Demand Media: Journalism\u2019s Vision of Its Audience and the Horizons of Democracy.\u201d In <em>The Social Media Reader<\/em>. Ed. Michael Mandiberg. New York: NYU Press. pp. 77\u201396. NOTE: Read especially pp. 77-89.<\/li>\n<li>Widdicombe, Lizzie. 2013. \u201cFrom Mars: A Young Man\u2019s Adventures in Women\u2019s Publishing.\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, 23 Sept. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/09\/23\/130923fa_fact_widdicombe\">http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/09\/23\/130923fa_fact_widdicombe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Zuckerman, Ethan. 2004. Making Room for the Third World in the Second Superpower. In <em>Extreme Democracy<\/em>, ed. Jon Lebkowsky and Mitch Ratcliffe. <a href=\"http:\/\/extremedemocracy.com\/chapters\/Chapter13-Zuckerman.pdf\">http:\/\/extremedemocracy.com\/chapters\/Chapter13-Zuckerman.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Auletta, Ken. 2013. \u201cFreedom of Information.\u201d <em>The New Yorker<\/em>. 7 Oct.\u00a0<a href=\" http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/10\/07\/131007fa_fact_auletta\"> http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2013\/10\/07\/131007fa_fact_auletta<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out Wikipedia page on Wikileaks. <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/WikiLeaks\">https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/WikiLeaks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Small team presentation:<\/strong> \u201cGlobal Voices In English,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\">http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 9: Redefining ownership<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boyle, James. 2008. \u201cChapter 1: Why Intellectual Property?\u201d In <em>The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind<\/em>. New Haven: Yale University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Lessig, Lawrence. 2008. \u201cIn Defense of Piracy.\u201d <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Stim, Rich. 2007. \u201cChapter 9: Fair Use.\u201d Read\u00a0 the sections \u201cWhat is Fair Use?\u201d and \u201cMeasuring Fair Use: The Four Factors.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/fairuse.stanford.edu\/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview\/chapter9\/index.html\">http:\/\/fairuse.stanford.edu\/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview\/chapter9\/index.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Small-team presentation:<\/strong> \u201cEverything is a Remix,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingisaremix.info\/watch-the-series\/\">http:\/\/www.everythingisaremix.info\/watch-the-series\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In-class screening:<\/strong> \u201cGrand Theft Auto IV &#8211; The Trashmaster: Fan-Made Movie.\u201d 2008. Clips.<\/li>\n<li>Paley, Nina. 2009. \u201cFrequently Asked Questions,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitasingstheblues.com\">http:\/\/www.sitasingstheblues.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Rodman, Gilbert, and Cheyanne Vanderdonckt. 2006. \u201cMusic for Nothing or, I Want My MP3: The Regulation and Recirculation of Affect.\u201d Cultural Studies 20 (2): 245-261.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Glass, Ira. 2013. \u201cWhen Patents Attack&#8230; Part Two!\u201d <em>This American Life<\/em>. WBEZ, 31 May 2013. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/496\/when-patents-attack-part-two\">http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/496\/when-patents-attack-part-two<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Aufderheide, Patricia, and Peter Jaszi. 2004. <em>Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture for Documentary Filmmakers<\/em>. Washington, D.C.: Final Report to Center for Social Media.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Morfoot, Leigh and Jason. 2010. \u201cCitizen 3.0: Copyright, Creativity and Contemporary Culture.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinobserver.com\">http:\/\/www.kinobserver.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Cumberland, Sharon. \u201cPrivate Uses of Cyberspace: Women, Desire, and Fan Culture.\u201d <em>MIT Communications Forum<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/papers\/cumberland.html \">http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/comm-forum\/papers\/cumberland.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Benjamin, Walter. 1968 (1936). \u201cThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.\u201d In <em>Illuminations<\/em>. New York: Harcourt Brace.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 10: Digital labor<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Xiang, Biao. 2005. Gender, Dowry and the Migration System of Indian Information Technology Professionals. <em>Indian Journal of Gender Studies<\/em> 12: 357-380.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Small team presentation:<\/strong> \u201cAmazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mturk.com\/mturk\/\">https:\/\/www.mturk.com\/mturk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dibbell, Julian. 2007. The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer. <em>New York Times<\/em>, June 17, 2007. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliandibbell.com\/texts\/goldfarmers.html\">http:\/\/www.juliandibbell.com\/texts\/goldfarmers.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>In-class film screening:<\/strong> MTV News. 2006. &#8220;The Real Price of Virtual Gold.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/videos\/news\/120059\/is-mining-virtual-gold-exploitative.jhtml#id=1545907\">http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/videos\/news\/120059\/is-mining-virtual-gold-exploitative.jhtml#id=1545907<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Rivera, Alex. 2008. \u201cSleep Dealer.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Freeman, Carla. 2000. <em>High Tech and High Heels in the Global Economy: Women, Work, and Pink-Collar Identities in the Caribbean<\/em>. Durham: Duke University Press.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Recommended:<\/strong> Ahn, Luis von. 2006. Presentation for Google TechTalk on Human Computation. October 26. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtFroEJN1nI\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dtFroEJN1nI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Week 11: Remaking identities<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>In-class film screening:<\/strong> Matulick, Shelley. 2006. \u201cOur Brilliant Second Life.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8610970\">http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8610970<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Kendall, Lori. 2002. Hanging Out in the Virtual Locker Room: BlueSky as a Masculine Space. In <em>Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online<\/em>. University of California Press. pp. 71-108.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nakamura, Lisa. 2013. \u201c\u2018It\u2019s a Nigger in Here! Kill the Nigger!\u2019 User-Generated Media Campaigns Against Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia in Digital Games.\u201d In <em>Media Studies Futures<\/em>, eds. Kelly Gates and Anghy Valdivia. New York: Blackwell. pp. 1-15.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Small team presentation:<\/strong> Sarkeesian, Anita. 2013. \u201cTropes vs Women in Video Games.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministfrequency.com\/\">http:\/\/www.feministfrequency.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Week 12: Technologies of personhood<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Malaby, Thomas. 2009. \u201c1_The Product: Second Life, Capital, and the Possibility of Failure in a Virtual World.\u201d In <em>Making Virtual Worlds: Linden Lab and Second Life<\/em>. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. pp. 17-45.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Coleman, Beth. &#8220;Interview with the Virtual Cannibal.&#8221; In <em>Hello Avatar! Rise of the Networked Generation<\/em>. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. pp. 81-107.<\/li>\n<li>In-class film screening: Baggs, Amanda. 2007. &#8220;In My Language.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/imr\/2007\/03\/28\/found-in-translation\">http:\/\/mediacommons.futureofthebook.org\/imr\/2007\/03\/28\/found-in-translation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Weeks 13 and 14: Student conference<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schedule of Readings for the Spring 2014 Semester Dr. Jelena Karanovic Adjunct Assistant Professor Department of Media, Culture and Communication New York University Week 1: What do we mean by digital media? Lev Manovich. 2001. What is New Media? In The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. Ginsburg, Faye. 2008. Rethinking the Digital Age. 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