Teaching an undergraduate course on social media and power dynamics
Hi everyone, I'd be pleased to receive some of your good advice. Next semester, I am teaching an undergraduate course on social media and power dynamics. I would be grateful if you could share some 'must read' articles that were published in the field last year. In addition, I would be also happy for suggestions of film segments or animated videos illustrating aspects related to the field, e.g. journalism, algorithms, social action etc. Thank you, -- *Shira Rivnai-Bahir* Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology and Anthropology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Israel shira.rivnai@mail.huji.ac.il +972-549980612
I'd recommend a pair of essays in Paul Booth and Amber Davisson's recent collection *Controversies in Digital Ethics*: Davisson "Passing Around Women's Bodies Online: Identity, Privacy, and Free Speech on Reddit" Stroud "'Be a Bully to Beat a Bully': Twitter Ethics, Online Identity, and the Culture of Quick Revenge" I'm teaching digital media ethics right now, and that pair generated some more nuanced discussion amongst the students than I think either one would have on its own. As far as videos go, the recently ended PBS Idea Channel <https://www.youtube.com/pbsideachannel> YouTube series is a great reference for examples and light academic/popular intellectual-style discussion. You can also use takethislollipop.com as an evocative project to get people started talking about online privacy and how much they share and/or moral panics about stalkers. Finally, students have had great reactions and insight to the short film "Noah," <https://vimeo.com/65935223> set entirely on a teen's computer screen as he "navigates" his relationships (the second half has some explicit content, but you can easily cut it off before then if that's an issue). Good luck! On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 3:19 AM, Shira Rivnai <shira.rivnai@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'd be pleased to receive some of your good advice.
Next semester, I am teaching an undergraduate course on social media and power dynamics. I would be grateful if you could share some 'must read' articles that were published in the field last year.
In addition, I would be also happy for suggestions of film segments or animated videos illustrating aspects related to the field, e.g. journalism, algorithms, social action etc.
Thank you,
--
*Shira Rivnai-Bahir*
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel
shira.rivnai@mail.huji.ac.il
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Hi Shira, i would recommend a few readings - Castells, M. (2011) ‘A network theory of power’, International Journal of Communication, 5, 773–87, available at: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1136/553. González-Bailón, S., Borge-Holthoefer, J., & Moreno, Y. (2013). Broadcasters and hidden influentials in online protest diffusion. American Behavioral Scientist, 57, 943–965. and, with a little bit of self promotion Pavan, E. (2017). “The integrative power of online collective action networks beyond protest. Exploring social media use in the process of institutionalization”. Social Movement Studies vol 16(4): 433-446 [ISSN: 1474-2837]. Padovani, C. and E. Pavan. (2016). “Global Governance and ICTs. Exploring online governance networks around Gender and Media”, Global Networks, 16(3): 350-371 [ISSN: 1470-2266]. hope this helps elena Il 08/02/2018 10:19, Shira Rivnai ha scritto:
Hi everyone,
I'd be pleased to receive some of your good advice.
Next semester, I am teaching an undergraduate course on social media and power dynamics. I would be grateful if you could share some 'must read' articles that were published in the field last year.
In addition, I would be also happy for suggestions of film segments or animated videos illustrating aspects related to the field, e.g. journalism, algorithms, social action etc.
Thank you,
-- Elena Pavan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Istituto di Scienze Umane e Sociali Scuola Normale Superiore Palazzo Strozzi - Piazza degli Strozzi, 1 50123 Firenze email: elena.pavan@sns.it telephone: +39 055 2673330 Adjunct Professor Dipartimento Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale Università di Trento via Verdi 26 38122 Trento email: elena.pavan@unitn.it telephone: +39 (0)461 28 1378 --- Questa e-mail è stata controllata per individuare virus con Avast antivirus. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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