Student presentations! Please sign up!
Dear students in Internet, Self and Society,
thanks for a fine start to the course yesterday!
Re: student presentations of course texts: I have send out a mail with an attached document with a preliminary overview of those of you who already signed up for a presentation. Could you please check whether I have got your names and your chosen texts right?
Those of you who have not signed up for a presentation yet: please do so!
Here is a list of presentations that are still up for grabs and I will hand them out on a first-come-first-serve basis. (Please, send me a mail with 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice!)
01/03: Social Relationships, part I
- Tarleton Gillespie, “The Politics of Platforms”, New Media & Society, 2010 May, Vol.12(3), 347-364. (18 pages)
15/03: social relationships, part 3
- Jose van Dijck (2013), “You have one identity: performing the self on Facebook and LinkedIn”, Media, Culture & Society, 35/2, 199-215. (17 pages)
- Katrin Tiidenberg and Edgar Gomez Cruz (2015), ”Selfies, Image and the Re-Making of the Body”, Body and Society, 2015, Vol. 21(4) 77–102. (26 pages)
19/04: the social, part 2 (politics continued)
- Stefania Milan (2015) “From social movements to cloud protesting: the evolution of collective identity”, Information, Communication & Society, 18:8, 887-900, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2015.1043135 (14 pages)
26/04: the social, part 3 (utopia / dystopia)
- Gabriella Coleman (2017) “From Internet Farming to Weapons of the Geek”, Current Anthropology 58/15 (February 2017), 91-102. https://doi.org/10.1086/688697. (12 pages)
Next week Thursday, we will start discussing theories of the self and subjectivity. Please, do read the texts selected for this session! (i.e. Blackman et al, 2008; Burkitt, 2008; Br?ckling, 2016; Bereswill et al., 2010)
Looking forward to next Thursday!
Steffen