Pew Research Materials Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, “The Future of Truth and Misinformation Online,” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech, October 19, 2017, . (All eight sections and review complete Pew report here:: ) John B. Horrigan “How People Approach Facts and Information,” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech (blog), September 11, 2017. . (All seven sections and review complete Pew report here: ) October 9 – Social Media I – Expanded Connectivity Guest Speaker Sarah DeMott – SOCIAL MEDIA SCRAPING WORKSHOP Readings John Allen Hendricks and Jerry K. Frye, “Social Media and the Millennial Generation in the 2010 Midterm Election,” in Noor, Al-Deen, Hana S., and John Allen Hendricks. Social Media: Usage and Impact (Lexington Books, 2011.) In Michael Mandiberg, ed., The Social Media Reader (New York: New York University Press, 2012). Jay Rosen, “The People Formerly Known as the Audience” Danah Boyd, “Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle” C.W. Anderson, “From Indymedia to Demand Media” Rebecca S. Robinson and Mary Jane C. Parmentier, “The Arab Spring in North Africa: Still Winter in Morocco?,” in Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media, ed. Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, and Rolf T. Wigand (Vienna: Springer Vienna, 2014), 197–211, . Pew Research Materials Shannon Greenwood, Andrew Perrin, and Maeve Duggan, “Social Media Update 2016,” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech (blog), November 11, 2016, . Maeve Duggan and Aaron Smith, “The Political Environment on Social Media,” Pew Research Center: Internet, Science & Tech (blog), October 25, 2016, . October 16 –MID-SEMESTER REVIEW OF PROGRESS OF ELECTION TRACKING PROJECT Presentations of work on Election Race Tracking to this point.
Post due 24 hours before class meeting, as each student will also be assigned another student’s work to respond to and comment on. October 23 – Social Media II – Surveillance, Freedom, Algorithms, and User Commodification Readings Juliet E. Carlisle and Robert C. Patton, “Is Social Media Changing How We Understand Political Engagement? An Analysis of Facebook and the 2008 Presidential Election,” Political Research Quarterly 66, no. 4 (2013): 883–95. Ronald J. Deibert “The Geopolitics of Internet Control: Censorship, Sovereignty, and Cyberspace” in Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard, eds., Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics (Taylor & Francis, 2010). Robert Imre and Stephen Owen, “Twitter-ised Revolution: Extending the Governance Empire,” in S. Bebawi and D. Bossio, eds., Social Media and the Politics of Reportage: The “Arab Spring” (London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014). Dal Yong Jin and Andrew Feenberg, “Commodity and Community in Social Networking: Marx and the Monetization of User-Generated Content,” Information Society 31, no. 1 (February 1, 2015): 52–60, https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2015.977635. Newton Lee, “Part II Privacy in the Age of Big Data,” in Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness (New York, NY, UNITED STATES: Springer, 2012). October 30 – Polling and Maps Guest Speaker Andrew Battista – MAPPING WORKSHOP Readings In Marita Carballo and Ulf Hjelmar, Public Opinion Polling in a Globalized World (Berlin: Springer, 2008). Tony Cowling, “The Effects of Globalisation on the Perception of Democracy” Richard Hilmer, “Exit Polls — A Lot More than Just a Tool for Election Forecasts” Daniel Merkle, Gary Langer, David Lambert, “Methodological Issues in Pre-Election Polling: Lessons from ABC News’ 32-Night Tracking Poll” In Kirby Goidel, ed., Political Polling in the Digital Age : The Challenge of Measuring and Understanding Public Opinion. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011). Charlie Cook, “Introduction: The Meaning and Measure of Public Opinion
November 13 – INITIAL ELECTION RESPONSE REVIEW SESSION Presentations of work on Election Race Tracking to this point including initial response to the results of chosen elections. Post due 24 hours before class meeting, as each student will also be assigned another student’s work to respond to and comment on. November 20 – Organizing Digitally and Online Protest Guest Speaker – Michael Mandiberg Connected to this class will be an activism outing we choose at the beginning of the semester Readings W. Lance Bennett, Amoshaun Toft “Identity, Technology, and Narratives: Transnational Activism and Social Networks,” in Andrew Chadwick and Philip N. Howard, eds., Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics (Taylor & Francis, 2010). Courtney C. Radsch “Chapter 5: Cyberactivism and Egypt’s Youth Movement,” in Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (New York: Macmillan, 2016). Rashawn Ray et al., “Ferguson and the of Michael Brown on Twitter: #BlackLivesMatter, #TCOT, and the Evolution of Collective Identities,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 40, no. 11 (September 2, 2017): 1797–1813, https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1335422. Zeynep Tufekci, Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (Yale University Press, 2017). Chap. 1: A Networked Public Chap. 2: Censorship and Attention Chap. 5: Technology and People Chap. 6: Platforms and Algorithms “The Cyberlaw Guide to Protest Art | Berkman Klein Center,” Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, January 22, 2018, . November 27 – Representations of the Citizen in the Digital Age Readings