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Week 1: Pshhhkkkkkkrrrrkakingkakingkakingtshchchchchchchchcchdingding*ding

An introduction to the terrain

• Madrigal, Alexis C. "The Mechanics and Meaning". The Atlantic.
• The Programing Historian: Introduction to the Bash Command Line

Week 2: Do Artifacts Have Politics?

What can things do? Considering the perspective of Science and Technology Studies.

• Winner, Langdon. "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" from The Whale and the Reactor (1986).
• Biss, Eula. "Time and Distance Overcome" from Notes from No Man's Land (2009).

Week 3: Considering Infrastructure (with Kevin Webb)

Before we can go further into networked technologies, we ought to have a starting point -- What do we mean when we say internet?

• Abbate, Janet. "Government, Business, and the Making of the Internet." The Business History Review (Spring 2001).
• Optional Star, Susan Leigh. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure.” American Behavioral Scientist 43, no. 3 (November 1, 1999): 377–91.

Week 4: The Economy of Attention

• Tufekci, Zeynep. “It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech.” Wired, January 16, 2018..
• ———. “‘Not This One’: Social Movements, the Attention Economy, and Microcelebrity Networked Activism.” American Behavioral Scientist 57, no. 7 (July 2013): 848–70.

FALL BREAK

Week 5: The Language of Visualization

• Drucker, Johanna. “Graphical Approaches to the Digital Humanities.” A New Companion to Digital Humanities, edited by Susan Schreibman et al. (2015): 238–50.
• Daniels, Matt. "The Language of Hip Hop." The Pudding (2017).

Week 6: Maps as Media

• Mattern, Shannon. "Gaps In The Map: Why We’re Mapping Everything, And Why Not Everything Can, Or Should, Be Mapped." Words in Space (2015).
• xpMethod, Borderlands Archives Cartography, Linda Rodriguez, Merisa Martinez, and Moacir P. de Sá Pereira. Torn Apart/Separados (2018). Vols. 1 & 2.
• Optional Dreyfuss, Emily. "'Ice Is Everywhere': Using Library Science To Map The Separation Crisis." Wired (June 25, 2018).

Week 7: Rethinking Repair and the Material of the Cloud

• Jackson, Steven J. “Rethinking Repair.” In Media Technologies, edited by Tarleton Gillespie, Pablo J. Boczkowski, and Kirsten A. Foot, 221–40 (2014).
• Burtynsky, Edward. (Photographer's Professional Site)
• Simon, Johnny. “These Beautiful Photos Reveal the Internet Is Hiding in Plain Sight.” Quartz. October 5, 2016.
• Greer, Dave. Professional site of artist mentioned in the Quartz article.

Week 8: When Computers Were Women: Critical Theory and Feminist Interventions

• Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto." In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women The Reinvention of Nature (2013).
• Light, Jennifer S. “When Computers Were Women.” Technology and Culture 40, no. 3 (1999): 455–83.
• Optional Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (1988): 575.

Week 9: Surveillance and the Algorithmic State

• No readings this week. Only self-reflection. As you interact with the web this week, think about these questions: Do you care about your online privacy? Do you compromise your privacy for the sake of efficiency, personalized content and/or ethical obligations (e.g. signing an online petition with your name and email)? How many times are you interacting with an algorithm?

• Be prepared to share your thoughts and, if you feel inclined, personal examples that spring up from the questions above.

Week 10: Encrypted Repositories (with Shannon Mattern)

• Mattern, Shannon. "Waves and Wires: CITIES OF ELECTRIC SOUND." In Code and Clay, Data and Dirt: Five Thousand Years of Urban Media (2017).

Wrap-Up