Readings

Readings will be dispersed throughout the semester to inform and contextualize our work with each project. Be prepared to respond, raise questions, and discuss the text during class by posting a comment or question on the relevant Slack channel.

Each student will be responsible for being a lead in the reading discussion: Sign Up here. This involves kicking-off the discussion with a brief summary of the reading, preparing at least three discussion questions, sharing any relevant works, and readiness to respond to your peers’ responses.

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Typography and the Screen
Loretta Staples
2005
A Vernacular Web
Olia Lialina
2014
Function as Narrative
Weiyi Li
2015
Can the Internet be Archived?
Jill Lepore
2015
The Web’s Grain
Frank Chimero
2018
Black Gooey Universe
American Artist
2018
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
Laurel Schwulst
2019
The Adventures of an Avatar and Her Real Girl
Helen Gregory
2019
The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement
Becca Abbe
2019
Run Your Own Social
Darius Kazemi
2020
The Hidden Life of an Amazon User
Joana Moll
2020
Data Feminism / Collect, Analyze, Imagine, Teach
Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein
2020
Alt Text as Poetry
Bojana Coklyat and Finnegan Shannon
2020
Glitching the Master’s House: Legacy Russell and Momtaza Mehri in Conversation
Legacy Russell and Momtaza Mehri
2020
Sharing as Survival: Mindy Seu on the Cyberfeminism Index
Marie Hoejlund and Mindy Seu
2021
The Coup We Are Not Talking About
Shoshana Zuboff
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