Soc. 3280: The Networked Society Handouts and Web Sites

1. Winner, L. 1986. "Do Artifacts have Politics." from: The whale and the reactor: a search for limits in an age of high technology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 19-39.
2. Sherry Turkle's home page (director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self).
3. FirstMonday (an online journal focused on the interent)
4. Reingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community.
5. LeFurgy, Bill. 1996. Issues Concerning Worker Displacement and High Technology: "It's the Knowledge, Stupid". From: CULTURE IN CYBERSPACE October 21, 1996/Volume 01, Issue 34.
6. Cohen, Patricia. 2010. "In 500 Billion Words, New Window on Culture," NY Times, accessed: January 10, 2011 (local copy)
7. Flash mobs and flash mobs 2
8. "Going viral": Lazy Sunday
9. Centola, Damon. 2010. "The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment." Science. 329 (5996)
10. Social Media Experiment. 2013. YouTube. http://youtu.be/5P_0s1TYpJU.
11. Smal-World Experiment. Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_experiment.
12. Sandvig, Christian. 2011. The Oversharer (and Other Social Media Experiments). Social Media Collectiove Research Blog: http://socialmediacollective.org/2011/07/29/the-oversharer-and-other-social-media-experiments/.
13. Deters, Fenne grosse and Matthias Mehl. 2013. Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? An Online Social Networking Experiment. http://spp.sagepub.com/content/4/5/579. Declining Loneliness Over TIme: Evidence from American Colleges and High Schools. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. January 1, 2015. 41: 78-89.

Here are old collection or articles form various sources. I'll be adding more current selection as the semester goes along.

Articles from the WWW edition of the New York Times:

(you'll have to logon to "roksworld" to view these documents--see the syllabus)

1. Internet Access as Tax Exempt Service
2. Net Fund Growing
3. Survey Doubles Estimate of Web Use to 17 Million American Adults (2/17/96)
4. Feminism on the Web
5. NY Times, Cybertimes, Feb. 13, 1997: Hackers Go on TV to Show Perils in ActiveX
6. NY Times, Cybertimes, February 14, 1997: A New Kind of Ban in Boston
7. NY Times, Cybertimes, February 15, 1997: Medical Records Are Headed to the Internet
8. NY Times, Cybertimes, February 15, 1997:Growing Winter Web Sites Seed Summer Plant Orders
9. NY Times, Cybertimes, February 17, 1997: New Software Expected to Cut Web Delays
10. NY Times, Cybertimes, March 7, 1997: On Web, New Threats to Young Are Seen
11. Using the GPS for Industry 9/28/98
12. Annoying or Obscene?   9/28/98

Articles from the WWW edition of the Associated Press , St. Louis Post-Dispatch, other news services.

(you'll have to logon to "roksworld" to view these documents--see the syllabus)

1. Snooping on your neighbor is just a keyboard away (Knight-Rider, in STL-PD, 9/30/98)
2. Internet companies wonder if you are a 'Mouse Potato' (Reuters, in STL-PD, 9/30/98)
3. "The Mouse at 30," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, AP, 12/9/98.
4. "Internet's Birthday," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/30/99
5. "Batteries," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8/25/99
6. The Air Conditioner and Change (6/13/99) (Post Story)
7. Internet Gap (7/9/1999)
8. Business and GPS (9/28/99)
9. Computers and Schools (abstract) (The Information Society Journal, Summer 1999)
10. Clone a Mammmoth? (AP, 10/2/99)