Required readings :
Acland, C. R. (2012). The Crack in the Electric Window. Cinema Journal, 51(2), 167-171.
Anderson, D. N. (2019). Digital Platforms, Porosity, and Panorama. Surveillance & Society, 17(1/2), 14-20.
Aushana, C. (2019). Seeing Police: Cinematic Training and the Scripting of Police Vision. Surveillance & Society, 17(3/4), 367-381.
Benjamin, R. (2019). Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life: Duke University Press (excerpts)
Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new jim code: John Wiley & Sons (excerpts)
Bishop, S. (2018). Anxiety, panic and self-optimization: Inequalities and the YouTube algorithm. Convergence, 24(1), 69-84.
Brown, B., McGregor, M., & McMillan, D. (2014). 100 days of iPhone use: understanding the details of mobile device use. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services.
Browne, S. (2010). Digital epidermalization: Race, identity and biometrics. Critical Sociology, 36(1), 131
Bucher, T., & Helmond, A. (2017). The affordances of social media platforms. SAGE handbook of social media. London: Sage.
Cunningham, S., Craig, D., & Silver, J. (2016). YouTube, multichannel networks and the accelerated evolution of the new screen ecology. Convergence, 22(4), 376-391.
Hamraie, A., & Fritsch, K. (2019). Crip technoscience manifesto. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, 5(1).
Hassoun, D. (2016). Engaging distractions: Regulating second-screen use in the theater. Cinema Journal, 55(2), 89-111.
Hesselberth, P. (2018). Discourses on disconnectivity and the right to disconnect. New media & society, 20(5), 1994-2010.
Keeling, K. (2014). Queer OS. Cinema Journal, 53(2), 152-157.
Kuntsman, A., & Miyake, E. (2019). The paradox and continuum of digital disengagement: denaturalising digital sociality and technological connectivity. Media, Culture & Society, 0163443719853732.
Light, B., Burgess, J., & Duguay, S. (2018). The walkthrough method: An approach to the study of apps. New media & society, 20(3), 881-900.
McCarthy, A. (2001). Ambient television: Visual culture and public space: Duke University Press (excerpts)
Magnet, S., & Rodgers, T. (2012). Stripping for the state: Whole body imaging technologies and the surveillance of othered bodies. Feminist Media Studies, 12(1), 101-118. [17 s]
Marx, L. (1997). " Technology": The Emergence of a Hazardous Concept. Social Research, 965-988.
Miller, D., Costa, E., Haynes, N., McDonald, T., Nicolescu, R., Sinanan, J., . . . Wang, X. (2016). How the world changed social media: UCL press.
Miller, T. (2017). Screen Life. A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory, 371.
Mulvin, D. (2018). Media prophylaxis: Night modes and the politics of preventing harm. Information & Culture, 53(2), 175-202.
Parks, L. (2014). Walking phone workers. The Routledge Handbook of Mobilities, 243-255.
Rangaswamy, N., & Arora, P. (2016). The mobile internet in the wild and every day: Digital leisure in the slums of urban India. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 19(6), 611-626.
Roberts, S. T. (2019). Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media: Yale University Press (excerpts)
Stone, K. (2018). Time and Reparative Game Design: Queerness, Disability, and Affect. Game Studies, 18(3)
Turkle, S. (1995) Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon & Schuster (excerpts)
Wajcman, J. (2010). Feminist theories of technology. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(1), 143-152.
Wang, W. Y., & Lobato, R. (2019). Chinese video streaming services in the context of global platform studies. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1-16.
Ca 600 pages + 400 pages of the students own choosing (either of the list below or other sources deemed useful)
Further reading (optional):
Alper, M. (2017). Giving voice: Mobile communication, disability, and inequality: MIT Press.
Browne, S. (2015). Dark matters: On the surveillance of blackness: Duke University Press.
Brucato, B. (2015). Policing made visible: Mobile technologies and the importance of point of view. Surveillance & Society, 13(3/4), 455-473.
Bucher, T. (2018). Cleavage-Control: Stories of Algorithmic Culture and Power in the Case of the YouTube “Reply Girls”. A Networked Self and Platforms, Stories, Connections (pp. 141-159): Routledge.
Cashmore, E., Cleland, J., & Dixon, K. (2018). Screen Society: Springer.
Cunningham, S., Craig, D., & Lv, J. (2019). China’s livestreaming industry: platforms
Cunningham, S. (2015). The new screen ecology: A new wave of media globalisation? Communication Research and Practice, 1(3), 275-282.
Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds: Duke University Press.
Freelon, D., McIlwain, C. D., & Clark, M. (2016). Beyond the hashtags: #Ferguson, #Blacklivesmatter, and the online struggle for offline justice. Center for Media & Social Impact, American University, Report.
Foth, M., Tomitsch, M., Forlano, L., Haeusler, M. H., & Satchell, C. (2016). Citizens breaking out of filter bubbles: urban screens as civic media. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays.
Gaver, W., & Dunne, A. (1999). Projected realities: conceptual design for cultural effect. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
Hamraie, A. (2018). Mapping Access: Digital Humanities, Disability Justice, and Sociospatial Practice. American Quarterly, 70(3), 455-482
Humphreys, L. (2005). Cellphones in public: social interactions in a wireless era. New media & society, 7(6), 810-833.
Hutchins, B. (2016). ‘We don’t need no stinking smartphones!’Live stadium sports events, mediatization, and the non-use of mobile media. Media, Culture & Society, 38(3), 420-436.
Introna, L. D., & Ilharco, F. M. (2004). The ontological screening of contemporary life: a phenomenological analysis of screens. European Journal of information systems, 13(3), 221-234.
Introna, L. D., & Ilharco, F. M. (2006). On the meaning of screens: Towards a phenomenological account of screenness. Human Studies, 29(1), 57-76.
Kaun, A., & Schwarzenegger, C. (2014). " No media, less life?" Online disconnection in mediatized worlds. First Monday, 19(11)
Knorr Cetina, K., & Bruegger, U. (2002). Global microstructures: The virtual societies of financial markets. American journal of sociology, 107(4), 905-950.
Lee, H. J., & Andrejevic, M. (2013). Second-screen theory: From the democratic surround to the digital enclosure Connected Viewing (pp. 50-71): Routledge.
McKinney, C. (2018). Printing the network: AIDS activism and online access in the 1980s. Continuum, 32(1), 7-17.
Plaut, E. R. (2015). Technologies of avoidance: The swear jar and the cell phone. First Monday, 20(11).
Satchell, C., & Dourish, P. (2009). Beyond the user: use and non-use in HCI. Paper presented at the Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7.
Simone, A. (2012). Screen, in Lury, C., & Wakeford, N. (2012). Inventive methods: The happening of the social: Routledge. (pp. 216-232).
Stark, L. (2018). Facial recognition, emotion and race in animated social media. First Monday, 23(9).
Syvertsen, T., & Enli, G. (2019). Digital detox: Media resistance and the promise of authenticity. Convergence, 1354856519847325.
Thompson, C., & Wood, M. A. (2018). A media archaeology of the creepshot. Feminist Media Studies, 18(4), 560-574.
Thylstrup, N. B., & Teilmann-Lock, S. (2017). Negotiating the thumbnail image: The transformative power of search engines and their” good enough” aesthetics. First Monday, 22(10).
Wagner, S., & Fernández-Ardèvol, M. (2019). Decolonizing mobile media: Mobile Internet appropriation in a Guaraní community. Mobile Media & Communication, 2050157918822163.
Wilkie, A., Savransky, M., & Rosengarten, M. (2017). Speculative Research: The lure of possible futures: Routledge.