DMS 528/DMS 415 : Social Web Media : Resources

Course Materials
- - books - available at Talking Leaves, Main Street location
Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
(ISBN 9780738206080)

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations - Clay Shirky
(ISBN 978 1 59420 153 0)

The Information Bomb - Paul Virilio
(ISBN 978 1 84467 059 8)

- - additional reading
"Constituents of a Theory of the Media" - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

selections from Protocol - Alexander R Galloway (discussion of Brecht and Ensenzberger only, pgs 55-58)

"The Public Sphere, an encyclopedia article" - Jurgen Habermas

introduction and Ch 1 of Zero Comments - Geert Lovink

"Technology of Cooperation" - Howard Rheingold (pdf)

selected chapters from The Wealth of Networks - Yochai Benkler (text available online)

- - listening
Immanuel Wallerstein on collective production of future economic paradigm

Jeffrey Juris on Networks and Movements

Final Paper Topics/Resources
The following articles could make good starting points for a final paper.

censorship / filtered internet:
- "Chinese Learn Limits of Online Freedom as the Filter Tightens" (NY Times 2/5/2009)
Sousveillance (and/or inverse surveillance)
- "When Official Truth Meets Cheap Digital Technologys" (NY Times 7/30/2008)
- Police Investigate Officer in Critical Mass Video
Fair Use / Digital Millenium Copyright Act
- "McCain in Fight Over YouTube"
  (article also applies if you are researching the use of social web tools by candidates in the election)
- As Rights Clash on YouTube, Some Music Vanishes
Future of Journalism / Peer-Produced News Should Bloggers Follow A Code of Ethics? (video clip)
terms of service / managing participation
- "Facebook Doesn't Get it: Users Want Control, Not Voting Privileges"
Tracking / Data Mining
Fair Use on the Web
- NY Times article: Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt
Paparazzi - amateurization/ sousveillance? see nytimes article
cell phones, mapping

Other Relevant Links
construction of identity/flickr
A Privacy Manifesto for the Web 2.0 Era
Complexity and Social Networks blog
HASTAC
Cooperation Commons blog
Open Net Initiative
Lawrence Lessig blog
Web 2.0 Summit
Clay Shirky site
World Wide Web Consortium
Craig Newmark blog
Slashdot
List of soical software (at wikipedia) Center for Digital Democracy
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Internet Archive
Creative Commons
Andrew Keen's Best case (David Weinberger)
Life, Liberty, Happiness after the Digital Explosion (syllabus)
MYSPACE IS THE TROJAN HORSE OF INTERNET CENSORSHIP via Luther Blissett
Unleashing the Collective Phantoms - Brian Holmes
Enduring Messaging: are microcommunications an art form? by Tom Sherman, via idc
http://nonprofitinternet50.participatorysociety.org/

Extended Bibliography/Further Reading
Enduring Messaging: are microcommunications an art form? by Tom Sherman, 2008 c/o idc
Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion - Abelson, Ledeen, Lewis
Convergence Culture - Henry Jenkins
Ruling the Root - Milton L. Mueller
Protocol - Alexander Galloway
Free Culture - Lawrence Lessig
The Exploit - Alexander Galloway
Wikinomics - Tapscot and Williams
Smart Mobs - Howard Rheingold
Everything is Miscellaneous
Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky
Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture - Geert Lovink
Communication Technology and Social Change - eds. Lin and Atkin
Peer-to-Peer Video - ed.
The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google - Nicholas Carr
Digital Resistance - Critical Art Ensemble
Anarchitexts - ed.

Where Wizards Stay Up Late
The Cathedral and the Bazaar - Eric Raymond
The Victorian Internet - Tom Standage

Participation - ed. Claire Bishop
What We Want is Free - ed. Ted Purves
Conversation Pieces - Grant Kester
Relational Aesthetics - Bourriaud

Gamer Theory - McKenzie Wark

Noise: The Political Economy of Music - Jacques Attali
Privacy: A Manifesto - Sofsky
The Information Bomb - Paul Virilio
Multitude - Hardt and Negri
My Name is Legion - Roger Zelazny

Identity / Transformation / Transition / The Post-Human

Original post, with images at:
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2008/dec/21/1a21virtual162313-online-world-immersion-probes-po/?uniontrib

Read the blogging of Becoming Dragon, which concluded its current phase on December 17th, at http://secondloop.wordpress.com

I'm happy to say that this story was on the front page of the San Diego Union-Tribune today, the largest San Diego newspaper. I would make a few corrections, one being that my name in world is Azdel Slade, another being that I didn't say "gender, identity and trends" but "gender, identity and transition". Also, another important correction is that the author says "stereoscopic goggles", but I did nt use the goggles in stereoscopic mode. We were unable to get our stereo code working in the hmd. Still, a good article nevertheless, I think. Also, most offensive is that he starts the story off saying I'm a man taking hormones to become a woman, so apparently he missed the main point of thinking about subjects in permanent transition, being something else, not on a trajectory towards woman, but perhaps it is a concession to his audience.

Also, CalIT^2 posted a decent video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHEDym1aOZs

Online-world immersion probes 'possibilities of transformation'
Immersion conversion
By Scott LaFee, staff writer