Course Introduction

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Medium / Media / Gadget / Person

Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message"

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Lev Manovich, "There is Only Software" 

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William Merrin, "The Rise of the Gadget And Hyperludic Me-dia"

Medium / Media / Gadget / Person

Lanier, Part One: "What is a Person?"

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Kelly, "My Question" 

Screening 1

Tangerine (d. Sean Baker, 2015) NETFLIX

Who is you? : Media's Interpellation of the Subject

Louis Althusser, Excerpt from "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses" 

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Keywords for Media Studies (Ideology, New Media)

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Murray, "Affordance of the Digital Medium" (online resource available through Emory Library)

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Murray, "Four Affordances" of the Digital Medium

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Manovich, "What is New Media?" and "Principles of New Media"

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View in Class: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYDt1E6Wwg

Facing Facebook: Is the blue box you?

Keywords for Media Studies (Identity, Intersectionality, Public)

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Zadie Smith, "Generation Why?"

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Kaitlyn Tiffany, "Does It Hold Up?" 

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Screening 2

The Social Network (d. David Fincher, 2010)

The Self (Sharing) the Selfie: #gram Squares

Alice Marwick, "Instafame: Luxury Selfies int he Attention Economy"

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Nicholas A. John, "Sharing and the Internet"

The Self (Sharing) the Selfie: #gram Squares

Selfiecity, explore the site (http://selfiecity.net).

Read one post from the "Theory" or "Blog post" section

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Menaker, "Take Our Selfies Seriously"

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Doyne, "Do You Have 'Instagram Envy'?" 

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Williams, "The Agony of Instagram"

Screening 3

Mommy (d. Xavier Dolan, 2014) 

Gender, Music, Media-tion

Marwick, "Gender, Sexuality, and Social Media" 

Gender, Music, Media-tion

Cyberfeminist Manifesto

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Keywords for Media Studies (Gender, Queer, Feminism) 

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Source and read one article/ chapter/ post from the following site. Be prepared to share with your classmates: http:// culturalpolitics.net/digital_culture_gender

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Spotify/Youtube Playlist Discussion

Screening 4

Amy (d. Asif Kapadia, 2015) 

"Friends" and Followers: YouTube, Fandom, and Fame

Hilderbrand, "Youtube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge"

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Marwick, "You May Know Me From YouTube: (Micro)-Celebrity in Social Media" 

"Friends" and Followers: YouTube, Fandom, and Fame

Keywords for Media Studies (Celebrity)

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"(B)adpatations" 

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YouTube Guest Lecture and Assignment Introduced

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​http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/24/545552788/youtube-stars-stress-out-just-like-the-rest-of-us

Screening 5

To Die For (d. Gus Van Sant, 1995). 

Intimacy and the Digital: "You have to log on to get off"

In-Class Viewing and Responses: Internet as "Democratization of Intimacy" (Stefani Broadbent TEDtalk)

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Lindgren, "Feeling Digital," from Digital Media and Society

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Patterson, "Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era" 

Intimacy and the Digital: "You have to log on to get off"

Student Presentations (Ready Datr One)

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Redmon, "Social Media and the Illusion of Intimacy" 

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DJ Pangburn, "Our Bodies, Our Machines: Inside the 'New Intimacy' of the Digital Age" 

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Keywords for Media Studies (Affect)

Screening 6

Her (d. Spike Jonze, 2013) 

NO CLASS FALL BREAK

Read Seife, "Chasing the Stupid Bug" and "Living in the Raw"

Fake News and #alt Facts: Truth in the Digital Age

Student CURRENT EVENTS Presentations/ Meme Culture

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Darby, "The Rise of the Valkyries"

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Gray et al, "Fake News"

Screening 7

No ALL group screening this week (Independent Website and Project Work)

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Please listen on your own to S-Town podcast (chapters I, II, and III).

Please try not to go beyond chapter III. 

Race: Social Change and "Digital Activism"?

Gladwell, "Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted"

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Packer, "Doris is Coming" 

Race: Social Change and "Digital Activism"?

hooks, selection

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Keywords for Media Studies (Race)

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S-Town (Chapters IV and V in class, time permitting) 

Screening 8

Fruitvale Station (d. Ryan Coogler, 2013) 

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Recommended Outside of Class Viewing: 

C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (d. Kevin Willmott, 2004) 

Privacy and Protection: In Limbo/ the Cloud

Coleman, "Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls" 

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Keywords for Media Studies (Surveillance) 

Privacy and Protection: In Limbo/ the Cloud

LeRoux, "Privacy Concerns in the Digital World"

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Brock, The Right to Be Forgotten, "Law, Power, and the Hyperlink"

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Screening 9

Caché (d. Michael Haneke, 2005) 

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Recommended Outside of Class Viewing: 

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Hackers (d. Iain Softley, 1995)

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The Lives of Others (d. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006). 

Digital "Memory": Search, Storage, Snapchat, Storytelling

Before Google Micro-Assignment Results

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"Introduction," Google and the Culture of the Search

Digital "Memory": Search, Storage, Snapchat, Storytelling

Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (PDF selections)

Lovett, "Posting to Mourn a 'Friend'"

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"What the Web Looked Like Before Google" (The Atlantic)

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Keywords for Media Studies (Memory)

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S-Town Assignment Introduced

Screening 10

S-Town (VI and VII)

Filtering Class, Citizenship, and Cultural Capital: Hiearchy, Palimpsest, Bubble?

Keywords for Media Studies (Citizenship)

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Pariser, selections from The Filter Bubble

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In-Class (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s)

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Tableau Public workshop and VIZ Assignment introduced (GOT example)

Filtering Class, Citizenship, and Cultural Capital: Hiearchy, Palimpsest, Bubble?

Lotz, "Television Outside the Box" (online resource available through Emory Library)

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Final Projects Workshop

Screening 11

Homeland TBD

Mr. Robot TBD

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Live Tweet

What is Life? What is the Human?: Back to (Binary) Basics

Watson, "How Turing Invented the Computer Age"

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Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" (skim link) 

What is Life? What is the Human?: Back to (Binary) Basics

Haraway (skim)

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Body Hackers

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WIP VIZ discussion and viewings (mini presentations) 

Screening 12

Ex Machina (d. Alex Garland, 2015) 

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Recommended Outside of Class Viewing: 

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13 Reasons Why (Netflix)

Westworld (HBO)

Consumption and Waste; Access and Disability

Keywords for Media Studies (Access)

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Goggin, "Cellular Disability"

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Maxwell and Miller, "Our Dirty Love Affair with Technology" 

No Class Thanksgiving Break

Optional:

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Watch Wall E with your family, live tweet, and write a blog post reflection.

Final Project Presentations

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Final Project Presentations

Tiernan Morgan and Lauren Purje, “An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord’s ‘The Society and the Spectacle,”” Hyperallergic.com, August 10, 2016, https://hyperallergic.com/313435/an-illustrated-guide-to-guy-debords-the-society-of-the-spectacle/

Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle (1967, 1970/ PDF, SKIM): https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/guy-debord-the-society-of-the-spectacle.pdf

Final Screening

Merlí, "Guy Debord” (S1E8, Netflix)

Are You a Gadget?

Summative Statements