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LOG IN: 

DIGITAL + SOCIAL MEDIA IN OUR LIVES

​​April 1-5, 2019
at the University of Virginia
​Charlottesville, Virginia


WHY LOG IN?
Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. Podcasts. Gaming. Texting. Email. Spotify. Tinder. Google. Snapchat. 

In recent decades, the use of social media and digital technologies have seamlessly and stealthily sneaked into our daily lives in ways we can no longer imagine living without – infiltrating and forever changing the way we shop, play, learn, and communicate.
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The IHGC’s Humanities Week 2019’s theme, “Log In” encourages students, faculty, and guests to explore how digital technologies and social media consciously and unconsciously inform and impact our lives through our art, communications, relationships, music, technology, information sharing, organizing and more. Humanities Week provides an opportunity for all voices to have a platform for expression and encourages us to broaden our thinking and understanding. 

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Humanities Week 2019 Schedule
Monday, April 1

WORKSHOP: DIGITAL HUMANITIES INTERVENTIONS INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
PRAXIS FELLOS
MONDAY, APRIL 1
10 AM - 11 AM 
ALDERMAN 421


SOCIAL MEDIA AND WHITE SUPREMACY: IRONY IN THE AGE OF DISINFORMATION 
GRACE ALVINO

MONDAY, APRIL 1
4:00 PM -  ​5:15 PM 
​WILSON HALL 142

THE INTERNET USED TO BE GOOD. WHAT HAPPENED?
JIA TOLENTINO, THE NEW YORKER
MONDAY, APRIL 1
6:00 PM -  ​7:30 PM 
NAU HALL 101


Tuesday, April 2
#BLACKTWITTER AND BLACK DIGITAL CULTURE

MEREDITH CLARK

TUESDAY, APRIL 2
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM 
WILSON 142
IS YOUR CRUSH SINGLE NOW? AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA QUESTIONS. 
UVA COMEDY: FEAT. MEMBERS OF THE WHETHERMEN AND AMUSE BOUCHE

TUESDAY, APRIL, 2 
5:00 - 7:00 PM 
CROZET PIZZA AND BUDDHIST BIKER BAR

Wednesday, April 3
WHAT'S WRONG WITH GAMING CULTURE? 
SEAN DUNCAN
WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 3 
12 PM - 1:30 PM 
WILSON 142
MONEY AS SOCIAL MEDIA LANA SWARTZ
WEDNESDAY, APRIL, 3
​4:00PM - 5:15 PM
WILSON 142

Thursday, April 4
CRASH COURSE ON JUXTAPOSITION: COMMONPLACE BOOKS AND LIBRARIES 
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JAMES ASCHER AND NEAL CURTIS

THURSDAY, APRIL, 4 
​2:30-3:45
WILSON 142
GLOBAL INQUIRER: PODCASTS AND PIZZA 
GLOBAL INQUIRER
THURSDAY, APRIL, 4 
5 - 6 PM 
NEW CABELL 349
Friday, April 5 
"CAT PERSON" READING + DISCUSSION 
FEMINIST READING GROUP

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 
​12:00 PM - 1:30 PM 
1515 GARAGE ROOM

Log-In Syllabus

An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor by Tom Bissell
a review of Zucked in The New York Times

Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is Doing to our Brains by Nicholas Carr
 
Black Twitter: Building Connection Through Cultural Conversation by Meredith Clark
 
Michelle Carter is Going to Jail Nearly Five Years After She Convinced her Boyfriend Via Text to Kill Himself by Emanuella Grinberg
 
Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian
 
Generation Why? By Zadie Smith
in The New York Review of Books


Other Suggested Readings found in Libraries and Bookstores

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr
 
You are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier
A programmer, musician, and father of virtual reality technology, Jaron Lanier was a pioneer in digital media, and among the first to predict the revolutionary changes it would bring to our commerce and culture. Now, with the Web influencing virtually every aspect of our lives, he offers this provocative critique of how digital design is shaping society, for better and for worse.
 
Zucked by Roger McNamee
The New York Times bestseller about a noted tech venture capitalist, early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg, and Facebook investor, who wakes up to the serious damage Facebook is doing to our society – and sets out to try to stop it. 
 
Data Love: The Seduction and Betrayal of Digital Technologies by Roberto Simanowski
 
Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino (coming in August)
 
AntiSocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy by Siva Vaidhyanathan
 
The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry) by Siva Vaidhyanathan
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