Introduction to Civic Media

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• SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction · READINGS: No readings
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• “ Bulletins from the Future ,” The Economist , July 11, 2011. ↗
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• Hargittai, E. “ The Digital Reproduction of Inequality .” In Social Stratification: Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective . Edited by David Grusky. Westview Press, 2008, pp. 936–44. ISBN: 9780813343730. ↗
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• Modarres, Ali and Bill Pitkin. “ Technology and The Geography Of Inequality In Los Angeles .” Pat Brown Public Policy Institute, 2006. ↗
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• MIT Communications Forum: “[What is Civic Media?]( https://commforum.mit.edu/what-is-civic-media-b9c8d46652c3 )” September 20, 2007. ↗
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• NTIA. Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide , 1999. ↗
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• DiMaggio, Paul and Eszter Hargittai. “From Digital Divide to Digital Inequality: Studying Internet Use as Penetration Increases.” Princeton University’s Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies Working Paper Series, Summer 2011.
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• Levine, Peter. “ Five Strategies to Revive Civic Communication .” KnightComm, 2011. ↗
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• Federal Communications Commission. Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape In a Broadband Age . 2001. ↗
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• Zuckerman, Ethan. “ What I Think We’re Trying to Do .” My …Heart’s in Accra , 2007. ↗
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• Knight Report. “ Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age .” September 1, 2009. ↗
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• Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A contribution to The Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.” Social Text , nos. 25 and 26 (1990): 56–80.
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• Squires, Catherine R. “ Rethinking the Black Public Sphere: An Alternative Vocabulary for Multiple Public Spheres .” Communication Theory 12, no. 4 (2002): 446–68. [Also available from Penn (PDF) .] ↗
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• Benkler, Yochai. “ The Emergence of a Networked Public Sphere .” Chapter 7 in The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom . Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780300125771. ↗
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• Selections from Downing, John D.H. Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements . Sage Publications, Inc. 2001.
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• Fanon, Frantz. “This is The Voice of Algeria.” In A Dying Colonialism . Translated by Haakon Chevalier . Grove Press, first published in French in 1959 and in English in 1965. ISBN: 9780394172620. ↗
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• Cunningham, Dayna. “ Can African-Americans find Their Voice in Cyberspace?” [parts 1-4] . Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins , March 9, 2009. ↗
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• Garnham, Nicholas. “ Contribution To A Political Economy of Mass-Communication.” (PDF) Media Culture Society 1, no. 2 (1979): 123–46. ↗
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• Chakravartty, Paula. “Introduction: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy of Global Communications.” In Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy . Edited by Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008. ISBN: 9780742540453.
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• Read abstracts from the Media and Propaganda Conference , assessing the Propaganda model 20 years on. ↗
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• Uricchio, William. “ Displacing Culture: Trans-National Culture, Regional Elites, and the Challenge to National Cinema.” (PDF) In Trading Culture: GATT, European Cultural Policies and the Transatlantic Market . Edited by A. van Hemel, H. Mommas, C. Smithuijsen. Boekmanstichting, 1996, pp. 67–82. ↗
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• Selections from Herman, Edward S. and Noam Chomsky. [ Manufacturing Consent (PDF - 4MB)]( https://focalizalaatencion.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/herman-chomsky-2002-manufacturingconsent.pdf ). Pantheon Books, 1988. (This is a link to a webpage containing relevant text.) ↗
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• Cull, Nicholas. “ Perspectives on Public Diplomacy.” (PDF - 6.6MB) . uscpublicdiplomacy.org, 2009. ↗
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• Terranova, Tiziana. “ Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy.” (PDF) Social Text-63 18, no. 2 (2000): 33–58. ↗
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• Hesmondhalgh, D. “User-generated Content, Free Labour and the Cultural Industries.” Ephemera, 2010.
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• Schweidler, Christine, and Sasha Costanza-Chock. “Piracy.” In Word Matters: Multicultural Perspectives on Information Societies . Edited by Alain Ambrosi, Valerie Peugeot, and Daniel Pimienta. Caen, 2005.
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• Tim Maloney. “Gimme the Mermaid.” May 27, 2006. YouTube. Accessed April 4, 2013. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9yjGiTQvGQ ↗
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• Meier, Patrick Phillippe. Technical Tech: Maps for Advocacy. iRevolution: From Innovation to Revolution, October 22, 2008.
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• Dignazio. 2009. “Art and Cartography.” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 1 edited by R. Kitchin and N. Thrift. Elsevier (2009), pp. 190–206.
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• Ducao, Arlene, Lela Prashad, et al. “ OpenIR (Open Infrared): Enhancing Environmental Monitoring Through Accessible Remote Sensing In Indonesia and Beyond .” CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ↗
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• Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science: Dosemagen, Shannon, Jeffrey Warren, and Sarah Wylie. “ GRASSROOTS MAPPING: Creating a Participatory Map-Making Process Ccentered on Discourse .” The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 8 (2001). ↗
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• Meier, Patrick. “ What is Crisis Mapping? An Update on the Field and Looking Ahead .” iRevolution: From Innovation to Revolution . January 20, 2011. ↗
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• Meier, Patrick. “ A Brief History of Crisis Mapping .” iRevolution: From Innovation to Revolution . March 12, 2009. ↗
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• Carey, James. “ Technology and Ideology: the Case of the Telegraph .” In Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society . Routledge, 1992. ISBN: 9780415907255. ↗
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• Tesquet, Olivier. “ How a Handful of Geeks Defied the USSR .” OWN__I , March 13, 2011. The usenet logs are available from cs.oswego.edu . ↗
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• saradhya. “ How TXTMob influenced Twitter .” Next Generation Labor , April 20, 2011. ↗
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• Sifry, Micah, L. From TXTMob to Twitter: How an Activist Tool Took Over the Conventions . Techpresident.com, April 25, 2012. ↗
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• Berger, D. “ John McMillian: Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America.” (PDF) International Journal of Communication 5:0 (2011). ↗
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• Tridish, P., and K. Coyer. “A Radio Station In Your Hands is Worth 500 Channels of mush! The role of community radio in the struggle against corporate domination of Media.” In News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy . Edited by Elliot D. Cohen. Prometheus Books, 2005. ISBN: 9781591022329.
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• John Emerson: An Introduction to Activism on the Internet , Last Edited 2005. ↗
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• Jenkins, Henry. “ Contextualizing #Kony2012: Invisible Children, Spreadable Media, and Transmedia Activism .” Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins , March 12, 2012. ↗
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• Woods, Emira. “ Top 10 Reasons Kony2012 Does More Harm than Good .” Africa Speaks 4 Africa , 2012. ↗
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• Jardin, Xeni. “ Round Up of African Voices Respond .” BoingBoi__ng , March 8, 2012. ↗
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• Gregory, Sam. “ Kony 2012: Juggling Advocacy, Audience and Agency When Using #Video4Change .” Witness Blog , March 17, 2012. ↗
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• Zuckerman, Ethan. “ Unpacking Kony2012 .” …My Heart’s in Accra , March 8, 2012. ↗
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• Moore, David. “Yochai Benkler: Blueprint for Democratic Participation .” Participatory Politics Foundation , May 10, 2012. ↗
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• Kidd, Dorothy. “ Carnival to Commons .” In Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches from a Global Movement . Edited by Eddie Yuen, Daniel Burton Rose and George Katsiaficas. Soft Skull Press, 2004, ISBN: 9781932360028. ↗
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• Whitney, Jennifer. “Make Media, Make Real Trouble: What’s Wrong (and Right) with Indymedia.” In LiP magazine ‘Tipping the Sacred Cow’ (2005): 44-55.
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• Juris, Jeffrey S. “ The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within Anti-Corporate Globalization Movements .” In The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 597 (2005): 189–208. ↗
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• Assange, Julian. “ Conspiracy as Governance.” (PDF) 2006. ↗
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• EFF. Transparency Project . ↗
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• EFF. “ History of FOIA .” Transparency Project . ↗
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• EFF. “ FOIA How-To .” Transparency Project . ↗
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• “ The Pentagon Papers .” Wikipedia . ↗
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• Draft FoI Act by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) & Support for Information Technology, February, 2012. English (PDF) - Arabic (PDF) . ↗
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• nashtc. “ Across America, Sunshine is Under Attack .” MuckRock Reporter’s Notebook , March 17, 2012. ↗
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• Taylor, Richard. “WhatDoTheyKnow – Oral Evidence to MPs on First Five Years of FOI in the UK .” My Society , February 21, 2012. ↗
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• Noveck, Beth. “ Wiki-Government: How Open-Source Technology Can Make Government Decision-Making More Expert and More Democratic.” (PDF) Democracyjournal.org , 2008. ↗
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• Taylor, Richard. “ WhatDoTheyKnow - Oral Evidence to MPs on First Five Years of FOI in UK .” MySociety.org , February 21, 2012. ↗
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• beckyh. “ Case Study: New Day New Standard, an Interactive Voice Hotline Powered by VOIP Drupal .” Center for Civic Media , May 31, 2012. ↗
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• Napoli, Philip, and Minna Aslama. “ Mobile Voices: Projecting The Voices Of Immigrant Workers By Appropriating Mobile Phones for Popular Communication.” (PDF) In Communications Research in Action: Scholar-Activist Collaborations for a Democratic Public Sphere . Fordham University Press, VozMob project, 2010. ISBN: 978.0823233472. ↗
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• Thoreau, Henry David. “ Civil Disobedience .” Thoreau Reader , 1849. ↗
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• Selections from Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Civil Disobedience . 2009. [Read at least “ Chapter 1. Electronic Civil Disobedience .”] ↗
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• Coleman, Gabriella. “Anonymous: From the Lulz to Collective Action.” The New Significance , May 9, 2011.
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• Costanza-Chock, Sasha. “ Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention .” 2001. ↗
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• Sauter, Molly. “LOIC Will Tear Us Apart: The Impact of Tool Design and Media Portrayals in the Success of Activitst DDOS Attacks.” 2013.
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• Fuchs, Christian. “ Social Media and the UK Riots: ‘Twitter Mobs,’ ‘Facebook Mobs,’ ‘Blackberry Mobs’ and the Structural Violence of Neoliberalism .” Information - Society - Technology & Media , August 10, 2011. ↗
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• Jenkins, Henry and Sasha Costanza-Chock. “ DIY Video 2010: Activist Media (Part One) .” Confessions of an Aca-Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins. ↗
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• ———. “ DIY Video 2010: Activist Media (Part Two) .” ↗
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• ———. “ DIY Video 2010: Activist Media (Part Three) .” ↗
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• “ Cameras Everywhere Report - 2011 .” Witness , 2011. ↗
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• SES #: 15 · TOPICS: Final Project IGNITE Talks · READINGS: No readings
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• This is What Democracy Looks Like . Directed by Jill Friedberg and Rick Rowley. Color, 72 min. 2000. ↗
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• Un Pocito de Tanta Verdad . Directed by Jill Friedberg. Color, 90 min. 2007. ↗
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• Control Room . Directed by Jehane Noujaim. Color, 84 min. 2004. ↗
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• The Revolution Will Not Be Televised . Directed by Kim Bartley and Donnacha O’Briain. Color, 74 min. 2003. ↗
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• The Century of the Self . Directed by Adam Curtis. Color, 240 min. 2002. ↗
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• Get on the Bus . Directed by Spike Lee. Color, 120 min. American Experience, 1996. ↗
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• It Gets Better . Directed by Liesel Reinhart. Color, 42 min. Selections, 2012. ↗
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