[Air-L] Sharing the recommendations i got for philosophical perspectives on digital culture

lior gimel lior.gimel at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 11:16:52 PST 2012


Hi,
You may find some relevant articles on
Episteme<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/episteme/>:
I remember an interesting article by Steve Clarke on internet and
conspiracy theories from a Lakatosian approach. They also had a whole issue
on Wikipedia.
Best,
Lior.

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Carmel Vaisman <carmelv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
> I've been asked to share the list I compiled from the recommendations I got
> for readings on philosophic aspect of digital culture. Two disclaimers: it
> includes some of the more popular lit too and it's quite cut & pasted, not
> fully "digested" yet, so I apologize. Here it is:
>
>
>
> Alexander Galloway / Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture, Protocol
>
>
> Andrew Feenberg's critical theory of technology, especially as developed
> extensively in conjunction with empirical work on CMC by Maria Bakardjieva
> -
> e.g., her forthcoming "Web 2.0 Technologies of the Self," co-authored with
>
> Georgia Gaden.  ("Online first" - DOI: 10.1007/s13347-011-0032-9)
>
>
> Angela Daly, a paper under review on Anarchism and the Internet, which
> critiques Yochai
> Benkler's assertions/predictions in 'Wealth of Networks'.
>
>
> Operations Object-oriented Ontology lit (Ian Bogost / Unit, as starting
> point)
>
>
> Fuchs Christian "Internet and society" and "Foundations of critical media
> and inforamtion studies" are based on social theory and philosohy, namely
> critical theory and Hegel's philosophy.
>
>
> Ray Kurzweil on transhumanism. Start with The Singularity is Near / The Age
> of Spiritual Machines (*p.s: I am actually looking for an interesting
> humanistic critic on singularity if anyone can help that'll be great) *
>
>
> Glyn Moody - Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution and also
> Mark Pesce - http://thenextbillionseconds.com/2012/01/10/initiation/
>
> Cory Doctorow, both his fiction and non fiction writings, perhaps
> especially for your purposes his book Little Brother.
>
> Charles Stross especially his book Halting State. His story Lobsters is
> just crazy out there, but amazing.
>
>
>
> Elizabeth Buchanan and Annette Markham on the "Ethical Guidelines 2.0"
> document for AoIR.
>
>
> Ess, C. and Thorseth, M. 2011.  Introduction, in C. Ess and M. Thorseth
> (eds.), _Trust and Virtual Worlds: Contemporary Perspectives_, pp.
> vii-xxiv.
> New York: Peter Lang.
>
>
> Ess, C. And Cheong, P. 2012. Introduction: Religion 2.0? Relational and
> Hybridizing Pathways in Religion, Social Media, and Culture.  In P. Cheong,
> P. Fischer-Nielsen, S. Gelfgren, and C. Ess (eds.), _Digital Religion,
> Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures_, pp. 1-21.
> New York: Peter Lang.
>
>
> Ess, C.  - Introduction to a forthcoming issue of Philosophy and Technology
> on "Personal Identity Online"
>
> Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology_ a review of Charles ESS on
> the book (Charles, do share it…)
>
>
> Turoff, Murray, Virtuality, CACM, Volume 40, Number 9, September 1997, pp.
> 38-43.
>
> *
> * <http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393072223
> >
>
> *The Shallows*<
> http://www.amazon.com/Shallows-What-Internet-Doing-Brains/dp/0393072223>by
> Nick Carr,
> *The Information<
> http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/0375423729/>
> * by James Gleick, and *You Are Not a
> Gadget<http://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Not-Gadget-Manifesto/dp/0307389979/>
> * by Jaron Lanier
>
>
> Jenkins's syllabus for "science fiction as media theory":
> http://henryjenkins.org/2011/08/back_to_school_special_syllabu.html
>
>
> Diane Dubrule's syllabus on computer ethics:
> http://www4.carleton.ca/calendars/ugrad/current/courses/PHIL/2104.html
>
>
> <http://www4.carleton.ca/calendars/ugrad/current/courses/PHIL/2104.html>
>
> Deborah G. Johnson, Computer Ethics. Prentice Hall.
>
>
> Peter Ludlow (ed.). High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues
> in Cyberspace. MIT Press.
>
>
> Vallor, S. (2009). Social Networking Technology and the Virtues. Ethics and
> Information Technology. Volume 12, Number 2
> <http://www.springerlink.com/content/1388-1957/12/2/>, 157-170, DOI:
> 10.1007/s10676-009-9202-1
>
> Vallor, S. 2011. Flourishing on facebook: virtue friendship & new social
> media. Ethics and Information Technology. Doi: 10.1007/s10676-010-9262-2.
>
>
> Zizek: "Cyberspace, Or, The Unbearable Closure of Being" from chapter 4 of
> _The Plague of Fantasies_and his analysis of MIT's SixthSense in _Living in
> the End Times_
>
>
> Facebook and Philosophy: What¹s On Your Mind?, ? D.E. Wittkower (ed.).
> Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Press, 2010.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carmel
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