Technology & Society
28 Additional Readings
Note: As with all the readings in this textbook, pay attention to the date when items were published — this is especially important when exploring technology, because so much of what we know about technology changes quickly.
Education & Technology
- “The Smartest People in the Room? What Silicon Valley’s Supposed Obsession with Tech-Free Private Schools Really Tells Us” by Morgan G. Ames
- “The Nuance of Note Taking” by Karen Costa
- “Spying on Students: School-Issued Devices and Student Privacy” by Gennie Gebhart
- “Analysing Students’ Reasons for Keeping Their Webcams on or off during Online Classes” by Vasile Gherheș, Simona Șimon, and Iulia Para
- “Across the Great Divide: How Today’s College Students Engage with News” by Alison J Head, Erica DeFrain, Barbara Fister, Margy MacMillan
- “Why blogs endure: A study of recent college graduates and motivations for blog readership”by Alison J Head, Michele Van Hoeck, and Kirsten Hostetler
- Eating (Alone) with Facebook: Digital Natives’ Transition to College by Giyoung Park
Privacy
- “World Without Walls” by Aaron Bady
- “There’s No Escape from Facebook, Even If You Don’t Use It” by Geoffrey A. Fowler
- “Learning analytics and higher education: a proposed model for establishing informed consent mechanisms to promote student privacy and autonomy” by Kyle M. L. Jones
- “How to Scrub Yourself from the Internet” by Heather Kelly
- “A World without Privacy Will Bring Back the Masquerade” by Jonathan Zittrain
Social Media
- “Information gerrymandering in social networks skews collective decision-making” by Carl T. Bergstrom
- “Decentralized Social Networks vs. The Trolls” by Derek Caelin (video)
- “Why I Quit Elon Musk’s Twitter” by Jelani Cobb
- “The Dark Side of Going Viral” by Ella Dawson
- “I fell for Facebook fake news. Here’s why millions of you did, too” by Geoffrey A. Fowler
- “Can ‘Indie’ Social Media Save Us?” by Cal Newport
Technology & Copyright / The Law
- Collection of fair use best practices
- “Bound by Law” by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins
- “The Future of Books and Copyright” by Caleb Crain
Miscellaneous Tech Topics
- “I Cut the ‘Big Five’ Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell” by Kashmir Hill
- “Cambridge Analytica: A Case Study In Behaviorism Run Amok” by Craig Axford
- “On Flooding: Drowning the Culture of Sameness” by Soraya Roberts
- “Friction-Free Racism” by Chris Gilliard
- “What do we actually know about the risks of screen time and digital media?” by Cathleen O’Grady
- “Invisible Labor and Digital Utopias” by Audrey Waters
- Framing ‘digital well-being’ as a social good by Alex Beattie and Michael S Daubs
- “Why People Are So Awful Online” by Roxane Gay
