Contemporary Culture – Social Media and the Digital Public Sphere
The following texts were chosen to help contextualize the contemporary moment surrounding social media, Facebook, and the digital public sphere. They are mostly texts from communications academics and professionals.
Singer, Peter Warren, and Emerson T. Brooking. Likewar the Weaponization of Social Media. Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Jankowicz, Nina. “It’s Time to Start Regulating Facebook.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 15 Nov. 2018, http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/11/15/its-time-to-start-regulating-facebook/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.074e036e97b5.
(2019) Riots and Twitter: connective politics, social media and framing discourses in the digital public sphere, Information, Communication & Society, 22:2, 213-231, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1366539
Turner, Fred. “The Arts at Facebook: An Aesthetic Infrastructure for Surveillance Capitalism.”Poetics, vol. 67, 2018, pp. 53-62.
Pariser, Eli. The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think. Penguin Books, 2012.
Gitelman, Lisa. Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture. MIT Press, 2008.
Presner, Todd Samuel, et al. HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities. Harvard University Press, 2014.
Propaganda – The Rhetorics of the Image
This category of texts helps to provide a historical and theoretical background around propaganda. What is the history of propaganda in the United States, what makes for effective propaganda, and how is propaganda used by different forms of government? (democratic, totalitarian, etc.)
CASTRONOVO, RUSS. PROPAGANDA 1776: Secrets, Leaks, and Revolutionary Communications in Early America. OXFORD UNIV Press, 2019.
Clark, Toby. Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century: the Political Image in the Age of Mass Culture. Harry N. Abrams, 1977
McLuhan, Marshall, et al. The Medium Is the Massage: an Inventory of Effects. Gingko Press, 2001.
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Verso., 2016.
Marchand, Roland. Advertising the American Dream Making Way for Modernity, 1920-1940. Univ. of California Press.
McGinniss, Joe. The Selling of the President: 1968. Pocket Books, 1972.
Public Sphere
How do we define the public sphere, what are the different manifestations of the public sphere (physical vs. digital), and what is the history of the public sphere.
“Public Art and the Fragility of Democracy.” Columbia University Press, cup.columbia.edu/book/public-art-and-the-fragility-of-democracy/9780231187589.
Emden, Christian, and David R. Midgley. Beyond Habermas: Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere. Berghahn Books, 2015.
Habermas Jürgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: an Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society. Polity, 2014.
Turner, Fred. The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties. The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Jaskot , Paul. “Marxism and the Built Environment in the Twenty-First Century: Millennium Park in Chicago and the Question of Private and Public Space.” As Radical as Reality Itself: Essays on Marxism and Art for the 21st Century, P. Lang, 2007.
Gerbaudo, Paolo. The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy. Pluto Press, 2019.
Suggestion to Delete
Short, K. R. M. Film & Radio Propaganda in World War II. University of Tennessee Press, 1983.
Welch, David. World War II Propaganda: Analyzing the Art of Persuasion during Wartime. Calif.
Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Penguin Classics, 2017.
Adorno, Theodor W. The Authoritarian Personality. Norton, 1969.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics. MIT Press, 2008.
Lievrouw, Leah A., and Sonia Livingstone. Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Social Consequences of ICTs. Sage Publications, 2010.
