[Air-L] Recommendations for short literary fiction and films on "digital culture"?

[Thomas Ball]

This BBC documentary titled *The Joy of Data* is a pretty good overview of
digital culture...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7BIBtPhk


A recent *New York Times Magazine* article titled *AI: The Great Awakening *has
a nice, kind of breathless portrait of how digital networks and AI are
changing culture...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/magazine/the-great-ai-awakening.html


Ted Mooney's book *Easy Travel to Other Planets* contains many digital
motifs focused around, e.g., information sickness and overload.



On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Emma Stamm <stamm at vt.edu> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am putting together a syllabus for an interdisciplinary arts/humanities
> course that will include a unit on art and culture of the digital age. I am
> currently seeking short literary fiction and films/video clips I can use to
> introduce college students (mostly freshmen and sophomores) to "digital
> culture" in its various forms and guises.
>
> I am particularly interested in works published after 1980, although if
> anyone can recommend their favorite short stories by Philip K. Dick,
> William Gibson, women writers and writers of color, I'd be very
> appreciative.
>
> Thank you so much!
>
> All the best,
> Emma Stamm
>
> *Emma Stamm, MS*
> *PhD Student & Instructor, Department of Religion and Culture*
> *Virginia State Polytechnic University*
> *www.realyou.me <http://www.realyou.me> | @turing_tests*
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