Social Media (Weeks 5-6)

Monday, September 17 (Week 5)

• Jason Eppink, “A Brief History of the GIF (so Far)” from The Journal of Visual Culture (2014), 298-306
• Kate M. Miltner and Tim Highfield, “Never Gonna GIF You Up: Analyzing the Cultural Significance of the Animated GIF” from Social Media + Society (July 2017), pages 1-11
• Blog (Round 2): Group D

Wednesday, September 19

• Lauren Michele Jackson, “We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in GIFs” from Teen Vogue (2017)
• Blog (Round 3): Group A

Friday, September 21

• “Nosedive” from season 3, episode 1 of Black Mirror (2016)
• In-Class: Scene analysis of “Nosedive”
• Blog (Round 3): Group B

Monday, September 24 (Week 6)

• Siva Vaidhyanathan, “The Pleasure Machine” from Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (2018), pages 31-51 (If you have trouble printing this PDF, make sure you’re using the latest version of Adobe Reader)
• Blog (Round 3): Group C

Wednesday, September 26

• Kathleen Hall Jamieson, “Could Russian Trolls Have Helped Elect Donald Trump?” from The Washington Post (2017)
• Charlie Warzel, “Sites Like Yelp And Twitter Are Just Pawns In The Culture War” from BuzzFeed News (2018)
• Blog (Round 3): Group D

Friday, September 28

• Patt Morrison, “Privilege Makes Them Do It — What a Study of Internet Trolls Reveals” from The LA Times (2015)
• Whitney Phillips, “We’re the Reason We Can’t Have Nice Things on the Internet” from Quartz (2015)
• In-class: Solve the Problem of Trolling!

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