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Recommended Texts for Deeper Reading

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• Jaron Lanier, You are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto (New York: Knopf, 2010).

• Kevin Kell, What Technology Wants (New York: Viking, 2010).

• Nicholas A. John’s The Age of Sharing (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016).

• Simon Lindgren, Digital Media and Society (London: Sage, 2017).

• Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble (New York: Penguin, 2012)

• Janet Murray, Inventing the Medium (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2012).

  • Online resource available through Woodruff Library

• Lev Mancovich, The Language of New Media (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001).

• Charles Seife, Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It’s True? (New York: Viking, 2014).

• Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction (London: Sage, 2013).

• Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: NYU Press, 2006). 

• Steven Hall, Raw Shark Texts (New York: Canongate, 2007).

• Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (New York: Pantheon Books, 2000).

 

By the end of the semester, please submit a report describing your deeper reading of one of the primary readings or recommended resources listed on the syllabus. If you choose a text that we cover some part of in class, your report should discuss more than the selection or excerpt covered in class. You are welcome to consult with the professor about an alternative text not listed above that you feel speaks to the topics addressed in the course. You should consider this a formal “book review.” However, you are required to integrate at least one non-textual element and encouraged to be creative in its composition. This includes using hyperlinks and opening the one-dimensional text to broader conversations. It is due by 12/ 9, but you are encouraged to post your final review as you complete it. Your review should be at least 500 words.Click below to see a helpful list of potential questions to address in crafting your hyperlink extension report.