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ENG 103 Net/Web Short List

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"and Klint Finley, “The WIRED Guide to Net Neutrality”

II. Possible texts to write 7Ws journals about. These are to get you started thinking:


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

Secondary Sources

Digital Literacy Topic and Readings