AP/POLS 4071
The Politics of Cyberspace
Undated; uploaded June 2026
Topics
- Digital technology, identity and political power
- Democracy, social media and political campaigning
- Algorithms, racial inequality and feminism
- Disinformation, deepfakes and psychometric persuasion
- Posthumanism and digital political economy
Readings
- Listed book: Byung-Chul Han, Infocracy: Digitization and the Crisis of Democracy (2022).
- Listed book: Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social (2021).
- Listed book: Safiya Umoja Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (2018).
- Listed book: Legacy Russell, Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (2020).
- Listed book: Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine (2019).
- Selected article: Priyanjana Bengani, India Had Its First WhatsApp Election (2019).
- Selected chapters: Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology (2019), introduction and chapter 1.
- Selected article: Jia Tolentino, The Age of the Instagram Face (2019).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public short course outline (tentative) ↗Undated; uploaded June 2026
- Selected bibliography from a longer list of books and articles. Short planning outline has a September–December schedule but no academic year.