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Week 1: Introduction: overview, logistics and a welcome to the information society

Webster - chapter two - what is an information society

Miller and Horst - the digital and the human

Escobar

Silverstone - what is new about new media

Everett - digitextuality

Lecture 1 powerpoint - introduction and welcome to the information society

Week 2: Technology and society: from technological determinism to the post-human

Turkle - Alone Together

Cohen - what does the photoblog want?

Cook - technological revolutions

Heidegger - the question concerning technology

Braidotti - posthuman

Williams - technology and society

Law - notes on the theory of the actor-network

Lecture 2 powerpoint - technology and society

Week 3: Communication, language and social media

John McWhorter: Txting is killing language

Brownlie and Shaw - empathy rituals

Axel - anthropology and new technologies of communication

Crawford - following you - disciplines of listening in social media

Murthy - Twitter - intro

Slack - Beyond transmission modes and media

Page - stories and social media - introduction

Discussion questions - week 3

Lecture 3 powerpoint - communication, language and social media

Week 4: Culture, virtuality and gaming

Castells - culture of real virtuality

Egenfeldt et al - video games in culture

Nardi - My life as a night elf priest - e-book

Pearce - Communities of play - e-book

Deuze - participation, remediation, bricolage and digital culture

weberman - matrix

Boellstorff - coming of age in second life - e-book

Discussion questions - Week 4

Week 4 - lecture powerpoint

Week 5: Information, property and power

Malte Spitz - TED

Hier and Greenberg - part 2

Foucault - panopticism

Lessig

Litman

Peters - information

Wark - hacker manifesto

Wollaeger - modernism, media and propaganda

Discussion questions - week 5

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis 03-02-20 - The NHS, AI and Our Data

Week 5 - lecture powerpoint

Week 7: New media and the transformation of time and space

Kevin Slavin - TED

Castells - space of flows and timeless time

Manovich - augmented space

Leong et al - the question concerning internet time

Gotved - time and space in cyber social reality

Kaun and Stiernstedt - facebook time

Potts - no-one is where they are

Week 7 - lecture powerpoint

Week 8: Media on the move: mobile communications and social transformations

6 TED talks

Demand a fairtrade cellphone

Horst and Miller - e-book link

Ito and Matsuda - e-book link

Foster and Horst - moral economy - e-book download link

Garcia-Montes et al - changing self and mobile phones

Doron - mobile persons - cell phones in north india

Cellphone reader - maroon

Cellphone reader intro

Licoppe 2004 - connected presence

Week 8 - discussion questions

Week 8 - lecture powerpoint

Week 9: New media, identity, community