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.
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.
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.
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 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
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
