Social/Media/Theory Presentation Schedule

Presentation Schedule

CS 640 Social/Media/Theory

Week of January 12:

HAYLEY

*Jennifer Slack and Greg Wise. “Articulation and Assemblage” (MLS)

*Jeremy Packer & Stephen B. Crofts Wiley, “Strategies for Materializing Communication (MLS)

JILLIAN

*Leah Lievrouw, “Materiality and Media in Communication Technology Studies” (MLS)

*Jennifer Slack, “Beyond Transmission, Modes and Media” (MLS)

WILL

*Mark Hansen, “Media Theory”

*Manuel Castells “Power in the Network Society” (MLS)

Week of January 19

SANTIAGO

Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, 1-89

*Adam Arviddson and Elanor Colleoni, “Value in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet”(MLS)

INEEN

*Eran Fischer, “Class struggles in the Digital Frontier: Audience Labour Theory and Social Media Users” (MLS)

*Mark Andrejevic, “Personal Data: Blind Spot of the “Affective Law of Value” (MLS)

Week of January 26           

SAMI

Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, 95-178

ERIKA

*Kylie Jarrett, “Who Says Facebook Friends are Not Your Real Friends?: Alienation and Exploitation in Digital Media” (MLS)

*Andrew Herman, “Production, Consumption and Labor in the Social Media Mode of Communication and Production” (MLS)

Week of February 2

MARIA

Gehl, Reverse Engineering Social Media 1-92

KARLY

*Tarleton Gillespie “The Politics of Platforms” (MLS)

*Jussi Parikka, “Cultural Techniques of Cognitive Capitalism: Metaprogramming and the Labour of Code” (MLS)

Week of February 9

SANTIAGO

Gehl, Reverse Engineering Social Media, 92-140

AMARA

*Peter Nagy and Gina Neff, “Imagined Affordance: Reconstructing a Keyword for Communication Theory” (MLS)

*Joshua McVeigh-Shultz and Nancy K. Baym, “Thinking of You: Vernacular Affordance in the Context of the Relationship App, Couple” (MLS)

Week of February 23

JO-DEE

Mosco, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World, 1-122

WILL

*Jodi Dean, “Communicative Capitalism and Class Struggle” (MLS)

*Ted Striphas, “Algorithmic Culture” (MLS)

*Melissa Gregg, “Inside the Data Spectacle” (MLS)

Week of March 1

SAMI

Mosco, To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World, 123-226

JACQUELINE

*danah boyd and Kate Crawford, “Critical Questions for Big Data” (MLS)

*Andre Brock, “Deeper Data: A Response to boyd and Crawford” (MLS)

*Nick Couldry and Alison Powell, “Big Data from the Bottom Up” (MLS)

Week of March 8

JILLIAN

Frith, Smartphones as Locative Media, 1-79

KARLY

*Jason Farman, “The Materiality of Locative Media” (MLS)

*Stephen Crofts-Wiley, Tabita Becerra, and Daniel Sutko, “ Subject, Networks, Assemblages: a Materialist Approach to the Production of Social Space” (MLS)

ERIKA

* Andrew Herman and Vincent Manzerolle, “The Rise, Fall and Future of BlackBerry™ Capitalism” (MLS)

Week of March 15

KATIE

Frith, Smartphones as Locative Media, 81-146

JO-DEE

*J. Macgregor Wise, “A Hole in the Hand: Assemblages of Attention and Mobile Screens”(MLS)

*Jodi Dean, “Apps and Drive” (MLS)

MARIA

*Gerard Goggin, “Mobile Web 2.0: New Imaginaries of Mobile Internet” (MLS)

*Aaron Hess, “The Selfie Assemblage” (MLS)

Week of March 22

INEEN

Massanari, Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit, 1-94

Week of March 29

HAYLEY

Massanari Participatory Culture, Community, and Play: Learning from Reddit, 95-170

AMARA          

Gehl, Reverse Engineering Social Media, 141-166

Week of April 5

JACQUELINE

Papacharissi, Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, Politics

KATIE

Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, 179-208, 235-266