Bibliography

Rather than approach texts conventionally, we’ll be working from a Subject Matter Bibliography. While I will provide readings, videos to watch, and more throughout the term (most of them free and open access), you will work from the bibliography to do your own research based on your interest in and uses for social media. The bibliography will include some texts which are only available through purchase, but you should only purchase them if they fit your goals for the class. You are also not restricted to the texts in the bibliography for your research.

The Bibliography

Data Literacies

• danah boyd, "Hacking the Attention Economy."
• Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham, "R for Data Science."
• Kris Shaffer, "10 ways to get started fighting internet propaganda."
• Kris Shaffer, "Machine Learning."
• David Streitfeld, "Teacher Knows if You’ve Done the E-Reading."
• Zeynep Tufekci, "Algorithmic Harms Beyond Facebook and Google: Emergent Challenges of Computational Agency."

Decolonization

• “Decolonizing the University,” Spring 2019 issue of Academic Matters
• Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, “Do not ‘decolonize’…if you are not decolonizing: progressive language and planning beyond a hollow academic rebranding."
• Yvette deChavez, “It’s Time to Decolonize that Syllabus."
• Edwin Mayorga, Lekey Leidecker, and Daniel Orr de Gutierrez, “Burn it down: The incommensurability of the university and decolonization."
• Suren Pillay, “Decolonizing the University."
• Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a metaphor."
• Jamara Wakefield, “Want to talk reparations? Let’s start by decolonizing higher education."

Design

• Digital Education, University of Edinburgh, "The 2016 Manifesto for Teaching Online."
• Mike Caulfield, "Can higher education save the web?"
• Mike Caulfield, "Info-environmentalism: An Introduction."
• Amy Collier, "Digital Sanctuary: Protection and refuge on the web?"
• Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Chapter 2.
• Kevin Gannon, "The Progressive Stack and Standing for Inclusive Teaching."
• Chris Gilliard, "Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms."
• Henry Giroux, "Beyond Pedagogies of Repression."
• Sara Goldrick-Rab, "It’s Hard to Study if You’re Hungry."
• Sara Goldrick-Rab, Jed Richardson, and Anthony Hernandez, "Hungry and Homeless in College."
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, Chapter 12: Confronting Class in the Classroom.
• Sean Michael Morris, "Critical Digital Pedagogy and Design."
• Sherri Spelic, "What If? And What’s Wrong?"
• Bonnie Stewart, "Antigonish 2.0: Ways for higher education to help save the web."

Digital Identity

• Kate Bowles, "US/not us."
• Tressie McMillan Cottom, "Academic Outrage: When The Culture Wars Go Digital."
• Virginia Eubanks, “The Digital Poorhouse."
• Jack Hylan, Jess Reingold, Emily Bostaph, "Views are my own: Digital Identity."
• Sherri Spelic, "Author, Audience and Parts of Speech."

Digital Fluency / Literacy

• SELFIECITY – Investigating the style of self-portraits (selfies) in five cities across the world.
• Maha Bali, "Knowing the Difference Between Digital Skills & Digital Literacies, & Teaching Both."
• Lee Skallerup Bessette, "Building Complexity."
• Lee Skallerup Bessette, Martha Burtis, et al., "UMW Digital Fluency Report."
• Xine burrough and Emily Erickson, "Going Crazy with Remix: A Classroom Study by Practice via Lenz v. Universal."
• Tressie McMillan Cottom, "Academic Outrage: When The Culture Wars Go Digital."
• Sam Greszes, "Shitposting is an art, if history is any indication."
• Amanda Hess and Quactrung Bui, "What Love and Sadness Look Like in 5 Countries, According to Their Top GIFs."
• Lauren Michele Jackson, "We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs."
• An Xiao Mina, "Memes to Movements."
• Kris Shaffer, "Truthy Lies & Surreal Truths: A Plea For Critical Digital Literacies."
• Lee S. Shulman, "Pedagogies of Uncertainty."
• Zeynep Tufekci, "The Looming Digital Meltdown."
• David White and Alison Le Cornu, "Visitors & Residents: A New Typology for Online Engagement."

Digital Pedagogy / Introduction

• Maha Bali, Asao B. Inoue, and Chris Friend. HybridPod, Ep. 2: Compassion.
• John Seely Brown, Allan Collins, and Paul DuGuid, "Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning."
• Martha Burtis “Making and Breaking Domain of One’s Own.”
• Amy Collier, "The Brave New World of Online Learning."
• Dave Cormier, “What is a MOOC?”
• Jade Davis “Frugal Innovation and Translatable Skills.”
• Robin DeRosa, "Open Pedagogy: Quick Reflection for the #YearofOpen."
• Peter Elbow, "Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting out Three Forms of Judgment."'
• Chris Friend “Tech, Agency, Voice (On Not Teaching).”
• Chris Gilliard, "Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy."
• Chris Gilliard, “From Redlining to Digital Redlining”
• Henry Giroux, "Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy."
• Henry Giroux, "Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times."
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, Introduction and Chapter 1.
• Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, Chapter One.
• Alfie Kohn, "The Case against Grades."
• Sean Michael Morris, “Saying ‘No’ to Best Practices.”
• Andrew Rikard “Do I Own My Domain if You Grade It?”
• Jesse Stommel, “Digital Pedagogy: A Genealogy."
• Jesse Stommel, “How to Ungrade."
• Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris, An Urgency of Teachers: the Work of Critical Digital Pedagogy.
• Audrey Watters, "Teaching Machines, or How the Automation of Education Became ‘Personalized Learning'."
• Audrey Watters, "The Web We Need to Give Our Students."
• Donna Wilson, "Metacognition: The Gift that Keeps Giving."

Digital Scholarship

• Athabasca University, "Principles for Ethical Use of Personalized Student Data."
• danah boyd, “Hacking the Attention Economy."
• EDUCAUSE, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI).
• Tressie McMillan Cottom, “The New Old Labor Crisis."
• Catherine Cronin, “Opening up Open Pedagogy."
• Jim Luke, “Orality, Literacy, and the Education Commons."
• Sean Michael Morris, “Not Enough Voices."
• Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, “The Rules of the Diversity and Inclusion Racket."
• Robert Rinehart, “Neoliberalism, audit culture, and teachers: empowering goal setting within audit culture."
• Amy Schalet, “Should writing for the public count toward tenure?"
• Sava Saheli Singh, “The Fallacy of ‘Open’."
• Jesse Stommel, “Vulnerability, Contingency, and Advocacy in Higher Education”.
• Marilyn Strathern, "Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy."
• tante, “What intelligence is."
• Martin Weller, “Attack of the Learning Engineers."
• Christine Yao, "#staywoke: Digital Engagement and Literacies in Antiracist Pedagogy."

Digital Storytelling

• 17776; or, What football will look like in the future
• If We Don’t, Remember Me
• Bryan Alexander, The New Digital Storytelling, “Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century."
• Alan Levine, "Kurt Vonnegut on the Shape of Stories."
• Maria Popova, "Illustrated Six-Word Memoirs by Students from Grade School to Grad School."
• Maria Popova, Literary Jukebox
• Maria Popova, “The Story Behind the Iconic ‘Migrant Mother’ Photograph and How Dorothea Lange Almost Didn’t Take It."
• Rives. “A Story of Mixed Emoticons."
• Hans Rosling, “The best stats you’ve ever seen."

Digital Tools

• Kris Shaffer, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Jess Reingold, Jesse Stommel, and Nigel Haarstad, "A Virtual Tool Parade."
• Adeline Koh, "Introducing Digital Humanities Work to Undergraduates: an Overview."
• Sean Michael Morris, and Jesse Stommel, "A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case Against Turnitin."
• Zach Whalen, "Notes on Teaching with Slack."

Imagination and Play

• Detroit Digital Justice Principles
• HumetricSS Humane Metrics Initiative
• Linda Barry, "Two Questions."
• Dan Berret, “Why One Professor Thinks Fun Matters in Learning."
• Julie Fellmayer, “Disruptive Pedagogy and the Practice of Freedom."
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Chapter 1
• Alison James and Stephen D. Brookfield, Engaging Imagination: Chapter 1
• Sean Michael Morris, “Adventures in Unveiling: Critical Pedagogy and Imagination."
• Sean Michael Morris and Lora Taub-Pervizpour, “Adventures in Unveiling: Critical Pedagogy and Imagination."
• Rikke Toft Nørgård, Claus Toft-Nielsen, and Nicola Whitton, “Playful Learning in Higher Education: Developing a Signature Pedagogy." (Taylor and Francis—login required)
• Terri Toles Patkin, “Museum of Play – Out of the Kitchen: Board Games and Our Complicated Identities."
• Ann Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown, “Pragmatic Imagination."
• Elli P. Schachter and Yisrael Rich, “Identity Education: A Conceptual Framework for Educational Researchers and Practitioners."
• Nick Sousanis, “Opening Learners’ Minds (Interview with Howard Rheingold)."
• Nick Sousanis, Unflattening: Chapter 1
• Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown, “Cultivating the Imagination in a World of Constant Change."

Information Literacy

• Open Textbook Library
• Mohammad Aliakbari and Elham Faraji, "Basic principles of critical pedagogy."
• Brett D. Hirsch, "Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics."
• Jabari Mahiri, "Digital Tools in Urban Schools: Mediating a Remix of Learning."

K12 Education

• Gamifi_ED: Networked Intergenerational Learning
• Christina Hendricks, "Open Pedagogy, Open Educational Practice."
• Ian O’Byrne and Kristy Pytash, "Becoming Literate Digitally in a Digitally Literate Age."
• Verena Roberts et al., "Open Educational Practice (OEP) in K-12 Online and Blended Learning Environments."
• Various contributors, "Openness and the Open Mindset in Learning."

Making

• Julian Bleecker, “Design Fiction: From Props to Prototypes."
• Charlotte Doyle, “Creative Flow as a Unique Cognitive Process."
• Aaron Falbel and Edith Ackerman, What We Mean By Learning, a Lego Booklet.
• Garnett Hurtz, “What is Critical Making?"
• Hannah McGregor, “Fandom, Feminism, and Maker Pedagogy."
• Seymour Papert, “Hard Fun."
• John Spencer, “What Happens When Students Engage In PBL?”

Open Pedagogy

• Robin DeRosa, “My Open Textbook Pedagogy and Practice.”
• Chris Gilliard and Hugh Culik, “Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy.”
• Rajiv Jhangiani and Robin DeRosa, “Open Pedagogy.”
• Lisa Petrides, Douglas Levin, and C. Edward Watson, “Toward a Sustainable OER Ecosystem: The Case for OER Stewardship.”
• Ankit Rastogi, “A brief introduction to lean, six sigma and lean six sigma."
• Dave Snowden, “A Simple Explanation of the Cynefin Framework."
• Cathy Spidell and William H. Thelin,“Not Ready to Let Go: A Study of Resistance to Grading Contracts."
• Audrey Watters, “The Weaponization of Education Data.”

Privacy and Surveillance

• Amy Collier, "Digital Sanctuary: Protection and Refuge on the Web?"
• Tressie McMillan Cottom, "Digital Redlining After Trump: Real Names + Fake News on Facebook."
• Wen Dong, Bruno Lepri, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland, "Modeling the Co-evolution of Behaviors and Social Relationships Using Mobile Phone Data."
• Virginia Eubanks, "Want to Predict the Future of Surveillance? Ask Poor Communities."
• Bill Fitzgerald, "Accessible Privacy and Security."
• Chris Gilliard, "Digital Redlining, Access, and Privacy."
• Chris Gilliard, "Pedagogy and the Logic of Platforms."
• Andy Greenberg, "It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone’s Location with Mobile Ads."
• Jeffrey Alan Johnson, "Structural Justice in Student Analytics, or, the Silence of the Bunnies."
• Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah T. Roberts, "Engine Failure."
• Matt Stoller, "Facebook, Google, and Amazon Aren’t Consumer Choices. They are Monopolies That Endanger American Democracy."
• Vijay Pandurangan, "On Taxis and Rainbows."
• Elana Zeide, "The Structural Consequences of Big Data-Driven Education."

Radical Assessment and Ungrading

• Soraya Chemaly, “All Teachers Should Be Trained To Overcome Their Hidden Biases.”
• Cathy N. Davidson, “How to Crowdsource Grading.”
• Peter Elbow, “Ranking, Evaluating, and Liking: Sorting out Three Forms of Judgment.”
• Alfie Kohn, “The Case Against Grades” and “The Trouble with Rubrics.”
• Asao Inoue, "Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies: Teaching and Assessing Writing for a Socially Just Future."
• Jesse Stommel, “Why I Don’t Grade” and “How to Ungrade.”

STEM and Critical Digital Pedagogy

• Gundula Bosh, "Train PhD students to be thinkers not just specialists."
• Karen Cangialosi, “But you can’t do that in a STEM Course!"
• Tressie McMillan Cottom, “Rethinking the context of Edtech."
• Robin DeRosa and Rajiv Jhangiani, “Open pedagogy."
• William H. Newell, "Decision making in interdisciplinary studies."
• Peter E. Pormann, "Inside Manchester’s ‘arts lab’."
• Chris Renwick, "Biology, social science and history: interdisciplinarity in three directions."
• Elena Riva, "The War of the Worlds and antibiotic resistance: a case study for science teaching."
• Clarissa Sorensen-Unruh, “Ungrading: A series (Part 1)."
• Elizabeth J. H. Spelt et al., "Teaching and Learning in Interdisciplinary Higher Education: A Systematic Review."

Writing about Teaching

• Ann Berthoff, "Dialectical Notebooks and the Audit of Meaning."
• Ann Berthoff, "Is Teaching Still Possible? Writing, Meaning, and Higher Order Reasoning."
• Peter Elbow, "Closing My Eyes as I Speak: An Argument for Ignoring Audience."
• Chris Friend, "Finding My Voice as a Minority Teacher."
• Kenneth Goldsmith, "Gertrude Stein on Punctuation."
• bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress,  "Chapter 1: Engaged Pedagogy."
• Sean Michael Morris, "Tobacco and Patchouli: Writing about Teaching."
• Katie Rose Guest Pryal, "A Lecturer’s Almanac."
• Jesse Stommel, "Dear Student."
• Jane Tompkins, A Life in School, "Karate Lesson."