What about Deleuze's Postscript on the Societies of Control?

Congrats on the course—cheers! :)

Will keep thinking of more but here are a couple in different categories:

1) Theories of Technology and Society

Mathes, J C, and Donald H Gray. 1975. “The Engineer as Social Radical.” The Ecologist 5 (4): 119–25.

4) Utopias and Dystopias

Chapters 1 & 2 of: Fishman, Robert. 1982. Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier. The MIT Press.

Williams, Rosalind. 2008. Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination. The MIT Press.

5) Political Economy of Social Media

Philip, K., L. Irani, and P. Dourish. 2012. “Postcolonial Computing: A Tactical Survey.” Science, Technology & Human Values 37 (1): 3–29. doi:10.1177/0162243910389594.

6) The Public Sphere

First few chapters & conclusion of: Kelty, Christopher. 2008. Two Bits : The Cultural Significance of Free Software. Durham: Duke University Press.

Eglash, Ron, and David A. Banks. 2014. “Recursive Depth in Generative Spaces: Democratization in Three Dimensions of Technosocial Self-Organization.” The Information Society 30 (2): 106–15. doi:10.1080/01972243.2014.875775.

8) Self and Identity

Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. 2012. “No Race And/as Technology, or How to Do Things to Race.” In Race After the Internet, edited by Lisa Nakamura and Peter Chow-White, 38–60. New York, NY: Routledge.

10) Opting Out

:) http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2012/11/21/the-cost-of-opting-out/

Theodore Kaczynski's Technological Slavery for item #1. I would love to take this class-- will you make content available online?

Two books:

Technopoly by Neil Postman

Writing On The Wall: 2000 years of social media, by Standage

Shifting Ideas of Public and Private and the Laws That Love Them - check out the DMCA process of removing copyrighted materials and how it's being abused to silence critical free speech. Lots of good material out there, especially from the EFF and Chilling Effects - I'm biased, but I'd start here:

http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/striking-back-against-censorship/

The Digital Scholar Martin Weller
http://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/the-digital-scholar-how-technology-is-transforming-scholarly-practice/

This is a few years old (I taught it in fall 2011), but it's the same course essentially, taught in a telecommunications department: http://vitak.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/tc401-fa11-syllabus-final.pdf

I put this together for Shorenstein to cover digital-media research in 13 areas: media, culture and society; the public sphere; legal contexts of new media and Internet governance; privacy; collective action; activism and social movements; United States institutional politics; journalism; information; youth culture; networked social structure; digital economics; and finally Big Data and the future of computation.

http://journalistsresource.org/syllabi/digital-media-and-society-syllabus-covering-social-media-technology-and-a-networked-world

Digital Labour and Karl Marx by Christian Fuchs

Americanism and Fordism by Gramci

"Founding Social Practices Anew" by Guattari

Being Digital by Negroponte

Political Economy, Capitalism, and Pop Culture by Lipshultz

Anything by Marc Andrejevic

Metasties of Enjoyment by Zizek

The Filter Bubble by Pariser

Hope this is helpful :)

Okay, well first things first make sure you've got a heavy dose of Jurgenson & Horning sprinkled throughout. Heavier on the first than the second.

On an NSA recruiting visit: http://mobandmultitude.com/2013/07/02/the-nsa-comes-recruiting/

Art: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/athletic-aesthetics/

On using the internet to interrupt racism, sexism, etc.: http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-208/feature-malcolm-harris/

Talk about the Tumblr Animated Text: https://vimeo.com/85505384

Hactivism, Jeremy Hammond: http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2007/The-Hacktivist/

A healthy dose of Brian Droitcour blog posts: http://culturetwo.wordpress.com/

On a remarkable YouTube account: http://www.actionyes.org/issue15/wang/wang1.html

Tao Lin, "How to Be Considerate on the Internet": http://thoughtcatalog.com/tao-lin/2011/01/how-to-be-considerate-on-the-internet/

On online harassment: http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/hate-sinks/ http://www.newstatesman.com/laurie-penny/2013/01/laurie-penny-its-time-end-culture-online-misogyny

And BuzzFeed's Weird Twitter feature. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history

Second Christian Fuchs. His Social Media: A Critical Introduction might be more accessible for undergrads than the Marx book.

Jodi Dean's blog theory

I've also noticed that Patricia Williams has been discussing digital media briefly in larger discussions of privacy in recent talks - there may be something more specific to the class interests out there from her that I haven't seen yet. Or the larger context might be good, too.

From my Cultural Impact of New Technologies class: Thomas Hughes Human Built World (gets great STS and history in there); Thomas Streeter Net Effect (Does ideology beautifully); Claude S. Fischer, “Educating the Public” from America Calling (great on social construction) Carolyn Marvin chapter on experts (great on race and gender); Sherry Turkle, "No need to call" Alone Together (they all immediately take issue with it which is great); Ian Parker, "The Story of a Suicide," The New Yorker, Feb. 6, 2012 danah boyd, "Eyes on the Street or Creepy Surveillance"; danah boyd, "4 Difficult Questions Regarding Bullying and Youth Suicide." http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/12/12/questions-bullying-suicide.html .

Then with that basis I move to the topic I change in ever year. Last year we spent four weeks on big data and health. Good luck and let us all know how it goes!

Thanks for inviting these responses - and thanks to all for the contributions, very useful! A few additional suggestions:

Bernie Hogan (2010) The Presentation of Self in the Age of Social Media: Distinguishing Performances and Exhibitions Online. http://bst.sagepub.com/content/30/6/377.short

Zeynep Tufekci (2014) Engineering the public: Big data, surveillance and computational politics. http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4901

"Digital Visitor & Residents" work by Dave White & Alison Le Cornu - original paper http://firstmonday.org/article/view/3171/3049 as well as more recent work.

Chris Poole video from Web Summit 2.0 re: public/private & digital/non-digital identity. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Zs74IH0mc

Finally, I've found that any of Bonnie Stewart's posts have been great for generating discussion re: social media, networked participation, digital identity, etc. http://theory.cribchronicles.com/

Best of luck! Will look forward to seeing your work in progress.

For "Opting Out" the recent EU ruling on "the right to be forgotten" seems on point. My post on the subject contains links to a few relevant resources, and certainly there's plenty more out there on the subject. http://atomicgeography.com/2014/05/17/the-forgotten-cyborg/

can i comment with a photo? i tend to think the best books for learning about the web aren't about the web

Possibly not quite what you're looking for re: utopias, but Omer Bartov has some great stuff about the darker sides of utopia in "Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity".

some stuff specifically about the internet perhaps good to include

• Fred Turner. 2006. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism.
• Levy, S. 2001. Hackers: Heroes of the computer revolution. Penguin Books. Expert.
• The Hacker Manifesto.
• Lawrence Lessig, 2008, Remix: making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy, London: Bloomsbury Academic. Excerpt from Chapter 1 about Sousa.
• McLuhan, M., and Q. Fiore. 1967. “The medium is the message.” New York. Excerpt .
• Haraway, D. 2009. “A Cyborg Manifesto.” The Information Society 228.
• Jessie Daniels. 2009. Cyber racism: White supremacy online and the new attack on civil rights. Rowman & Littlefield.
• Bruno Latour. “Do You Believe in Reality? News from the Trenches of the Science Wars.” In Scharff & Dusek. 2003. Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition - An Anthology.
• Coté, M., and J. Pybus. n.d. “Learning to Immaterial Labour 2.0: MySpace and Social Networks.” ephemera 88.
• Working for the Man: Against the Employment Paradigm in Videogames
• Turkle, S. (1995). Mud Rape: Only Words. In Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon & Schuster. 251-253.
• Tunisia, Twitter, Aristotle, Social Media and Final and Efficient Causes blog post by Zeynep Tufekci

Congrats Jenny! This seems like the beginning of something wonderful.

I am so glad I found this place! This is just awesome. I'm in a grad course right now on Contemporary issues in American Education - we're using films about teachers to ask questions about the public perception of education. I stumbled here through doing research on how Pinterest portrays teachers (Nathan and Sarah both helped me out a bunch!). I just wanted to comment so that I would get updates on what else is recommended here because I think there will be some pretty killer stuff.

I agree with Nathan's post above that many books that aren't about technology can really inform the way we understand it.

I think gender is definitely a huge factor of the internet. I think there's also some serious segregation online as well, which would be fascinating to get into (especially with regards to language and race).

I like to think of myself as an educator and sociologist, so some of the areas that I like to think about include:

How social justice (NGOs, non-profits, activist) efforts have tried to "utilize" the tools of marketers to become more visible to the public (e.g. live tweeting hashtags during presidential debates, superbowl, world cup, etc.).

How "real-life" communities (e.g. churches) have created their own online community sites (thecity for example) and what this means.

The benefits and dangers of using social media and the internet as resources when producing scholarly work. When does working on a google document for a group paper become problematic? When does having a conversation with a friend on facebook about a paper you're writing need to be cited for ideas? These issues are just as problematic for scholars as they are for students. I think someone else mentioned copy-right/intellectual property issues so that would go along with it.

As someone who works in higher-ed, I think a lot about challenging how the student is already thinking about these things and coming to new ideas and conclusions. I especially think about how to challenge the thoughts of what's good and what's bad and why we assume one or the other. For instance, what's shaping our perception that spending 150 minutes a visit on facebook is a bad thing? What is the standard we are measuring against and how do we form that ethic/expectation? When we deal with the internet, who are we judging ourselves against when we make judgments about our actions?

I know this is becoming a bit more individual focused than society focused but I think those kinds of questions are really helpful in discussion to get people talking about how the systems and institutions are shaping how we think of these things. For example, what feeling do we have when we click on an ad (everyone does it at some point)? Why do we feel that way? What's shaping that? Do we feel like "the man" won? Is it the same way we feel when we buy a candy bar at the checkout of the grocery store? Is there a feeling of instant gratification or a sensation of smarminess? What are the factors that are shaping those beliefs?

I guess I would be really interested to see how students would argue their own socialization by means of the internet/technology and how that has shaped how they participate in society. That would be fascinating.
Honestly, I think I'm just having fun here. But awesome site, and I'm so glad I found it!