Hall – Digitize This Book! The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now
Hall, Gary. Digitize This Book! : The Politics of New Media, or Why We Need Open Access Now. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Print. Introduction H. begins by acknowledging the neoliberal turn in the life of the university in the last twenty years (rising tuition rates, closure of non-economically viable departments, contingent labor, students as consumers, etc.) before turning to a central tension for the university: we don’t want the... Read More
Milioni – Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere
Milioni, Dimitra. “Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere: The Case of Indymedia Athens.” Media Culture Society 32 3 (2009). Print. Arguing against Habermas’ depiction of the online public sphere as a site of ever-increasing fragmentation and segmentation (2006), but with Habermas’ normative ideal of the public sphere in The Structural Transformation, Milioni claims that the communalization of networked digital spaces actually does... Read More
Kobayashi, Ikeda, and Kakuko – Social Capital Online
Kobayashi, Tetsuro, Ken’ichi Ikeda, and Miyata Kakuko. “Social Capital Online: Collective Use of the Internet and Reciprocity as Lubricants of Democracy.” Information, Communication, and Society 9 5 (2006): 582-611. Print. In this article Kobayashi, Ikeda, and Kakuko argue that the internet promotes social capital in that trust and reciprocity are cultivated through participation in online communities. The authors also point... Read More
Rajagopal and Bojin – Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy
Rajagopal, Indhu and Nis Bojin. “Cons in the Panopticon: Anti-Globalization and Cyber-Piracy.” First Monday 9.6 (2004). 2/15/2010 <http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1174/1094>. Rajagopal and Bojin argue that the internet is fast becoming a corporately controlled panopticon that regulates the social, economic, and political relationships between users and corporations. In response to the panopticonization... Read More
CCR601 – FP – 3rd Gen – Herring
Herring, Susan C. Linguistic and Critical Analysis of Computer Mediated Communication: Some Ethical and Scholarly Considerations. The Information Society 12 (2): 153-168, 1996 This article takes up the issue of anonymity and citation in the early age of email and other computer mediated communication (CMC). The first proposal for how to deal with internet communication is to take Cavazos’ approach that all “messages posted via computer networks... Read More
