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SOCI 3455

Digital Technology and Society

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Readings

  • Required: Alter, Adam. (2017—pp: 1-45). Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked. NY: Penguin Press.
  • Required: Armstrong, Allison & Charles Casement. (1998—Chapters: 10 & 11, pp: 167-199). The Child and the Machine: Why Computers May Put Our Children's Education at Risk. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
  • Required: Benanav, Aaron. 2020. “The Automation Discourse” – chapter 1, pp;1-13; Notes, pp: 101-105). Automation and the Future of Work. London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Bauchspies, Wenda, Jennifer Croissant & Sal Restivo. (2006—Preface & Chapter 1, pp: VII- XI;1-18). Science, Technology and Society: a Sociological Perspective. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Required: Bridle, James. (2018—chapter 3, pp: 47-76). New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future. London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Choudry, Aziz. (2019—Chapters 1 & 6, pp: 1-22; 117-128). Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression. UK/Toronto: Pluto Press & Between the Lines.
  • Required: Doctorow, Cory. (2023—“Intro” – pp:1-4; “How Big Tech Got Big” – chapter 1, pp: 7-25). The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Gilbert, Jeremy & Alex Williams. (2022—"Platform Power” – chapter 5, pp:171-207; 294-300). Hegemony Now: How Big Tech and Wall Street Won the World (And How We Win it Back). London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Greenfield, Adam. (2017—Chapter 1, pp: 9-29). Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life. London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Hill, Symon. (2013—pp:11-15; 59-83). Digital Revolutions: Activism in the Internet Age. Oxford: New Internationalist.
  • Required: Livingstone, Sonia and Julian Sefton-Green. (2016—"Living and Learning in the Digital Age” – chapter 1, pp: 20-40; “Identities and Relationships” – chapter 4, pp:85-106). The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age. NY: NYU Press.
  • Required: McBride, Stephen & Heather Whiteside. (2011—pp:58-79; 106-111). Private Affluence, Public Austerity: Economic Crisis & Democratic Malaise in Canada. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
  • Required: McChesney, Robert W. (2013—pp:1-22;33-40 & 210). Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy. New York: The New Press.
  • Required: Menzies, Heather. (1996—pp: 3-19). Whose Brave New World? The Information Highway & the New Economy. Toronto: Between the Lines.
  • Required: Millar, Melanie Stewart. (1998—Chapters: 1 & 2, pp: 28- 43; 53-68). Cracking the Gender Code: Who Rules the Wired World? Toronto: Second Story Press.
  • Required: Mirchandani, Kiran, Sanjukta Mukherjee and Shruti Tambe. (2020— “Left Out” – chapter 6, pp: 174-187). Low Wage in High Tech: An Ethnography of Service Workers in Global India. NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Required: Quan-Haase, Anabel. (2013—pp: 167-189). Technology & Society: Social Networks, Power, & Technology. Toronto: Oxford U Press.
  • Required: Rifkin, Jeremy. (1995—Chapters: 3, 5, & 18, pp: 42-56; 69-80; 275-293). The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era. New York: Tarcher & Putnam.
  • Required: Rose, Elen. (2003—Chapters: 1, pp: 15-42). User Error: Resisting Computer Culture. Toronto: Between the Lines.
  • Required: Scott-Dixon, K. (2004—Intro & Chapters: 1 & 2, pp: 11-29; 31-40;63-81). Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology. Toronto: Sumach Press. Society Endangers Our Future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Required: Srnicek, Nick and Alex Williams. (2016—"Afterword: Reinventing the Future” – pp: 185-200; Notes, pp:256-257). Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Stiglitz, Joseph E. (2012—pp: 265-290). The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
  • Required: Turkle, Sherry. (2011—pp: IX-XVII; 279-296). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books.
  • Required: Wemigwans, Jennifer. (2018-- Chapter 1, pp: 1-42). A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online. Regina: University of Regina Press.
  • Required: Winston, Morton & Ralph Edelbach. (2012—pp:182-195; 222-235; 249-262; 301-310). Society, Ethics, and Computer Technology, Revised 4th Edition. Toronto: Nelson Education Ltd.
  • Required: Zuboff, Shoshana. (2019—Chapter 1, pp: 3-24). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. NY: Public Affairs.
  • Required: Books on Reserve in the Libraries
  • Required: Choudry, Aziz. 2019. Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from Repression. UK/Toronto: Pluto Press & Between the Lines.
  • Required: Livingstone, Sonia and Julian Sefton-Green. 2016. The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age. NY: NYU Press.
  • Required: McChesney, Robert W. 2013. Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy. New York: The New Press.
  • Required: Scott-Dixon, K. 2004. Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology. Toronto: Sumach Press.
  • Required: Srnicek, Nick and Alex Williams. 2016. Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work. London/ New York: Verso.
  • Required: Turkle, Sherry. 2011. Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books.
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  • Internet and it's Corporate Ownership: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLCasOG3S2o ↗
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