Summary of readings

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At your request, here is a summary of all the texts we have read during the course (to help you find the texts and prepare for the home exam).

Benkler, The wealth of networks:

- Chapter 1-4 (lecture 2 - the networked information economy)

- Chapter 5 (lecture 5 - participatory culture)

- Chapter 6 (lecture 7 - mass media and citizen journalism)

- Chapter 7 (lecture 3 - network theory)

- Chapter 8 (lecture 5 - participatory culture)

- Chapter 10 (lecture 6 - critique)

Lecture 3 - network theory:

- Ramos (200X), "Linked: The new science of networks"

- Shirky (2003), "Power laws, weblogs and inequality"

Lecture 4 - guest lecture

Lecture 5 - participatory culture

- Jenkins (2006), "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots creativity meets the media industry" (Chapter in the book "Convergence culture") OR

- Jenkins (2003), "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Digital cinema, media convergence and participatory culture"

Lecture 6 - critique

- Harmon (1998), "Researchers find sad, lonely world in cyberspace"

- Postman (1990), "Informing ourselves to death"

- Carr (2008), "Is Google making us stupid?"

- Lundblad (2004), "Privacy in a noise society"

- Bardi (2009), "The spike and the peak"

- Anderson (2009), "Peak oil primer" (background info, helpful for understanding some other texts - will not be part of the exam)

- Greer (2009), "The end of the information age" and "The economics of decline"

Lecture 7 - mass media and citizen journalism

- Witt (2006), "Constructing a framework to enable an open source reinvention of journalism"

- Leetaru (2009), "New media vs. old media"

- Gillmor (2006), "We are all reporters now"

Lecture 8 - guest lecture