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Required class texts

I. Texts that illustrate class concepts (we'll use them in lectures or as follow-up to lecture):


 * 1) Neil Postman, "Five things we need to know about technological change"
 * 2) Andrew Blum, "Discover the physical side of the internet"
 * 3) Lee LeFever, “World Wide Web in Plain English”
 * 4) Nurie Mohamed, "Why You Should Care About Net Neutrality"

II. Eight texts that everyone reads and writes 7Ws journals about and some of you will become experts on:


 * 1) Nicholas Carr, "Is Google making us stupid?"
 * 2) Sherry Turkle, "Connected, but alone?"
 * 3) Adam Alter, "Why our screens make us less happy"
 * 4) Eli Pariser, "Beware online filter bubbles"
 * 5) Scott Shane, “From Headline to Photograph, a Fake News Masterpiece”
 * 6) Tim Wu, “The Fourth Screen and the Mirror of Narcissus”
 * 7) Zeynep Tufekci, "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads"
 * 8) Carole Cadwalladr, "Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy"

III. Choose any two texts out of this list to write the last two journal entries:


 * 1) Aaron Schwartz, "Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto"
 * 2) Clay Shirky, "How the Internet will (one day) transform government"
 * 3) Christopher Soghoian, "Your smartphone is a civil rights issue"
 * 4) Klint Finley, “The WIRED Guide to Net Neutrality”
 * 5) James Bridle, "The nightmare videos of children's YouTube — and what's wrong with the internet today"
 * 6) Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad, “How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy”
 * 7) Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu, "What Your Smart Devices Know and Share about You"
 * 8) Joy Buolamwini, "How I'm fighting bias in algorithms"
 * 9) Andreas Ekström, “Can We Solve For Bias In Tech?”
 * 10) Mikko Hypponen, “How the NSA Betrayed the World’s Trust”
 * 11) Jennifer Granick, “How the Government Spies on People Who Protest Including You”
 * 12) Kade Crockford, "What you need to know about face surveillance"
 * 13) Rachel Botsman, "Big data meets Big Brother as China moves to rate its citizens"