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

Tue Dec 20 11:33:55 PST 2016

Hi Emma,

Ted Chiang's work is great - "The Story of Your Life" is getting buzz
because of the film Arrival, but I think "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of
Feeling" would be especially good for a class on digital culture:
https://subterraneanpress.com/magazine/fall_2013/the_truth_of_fact_the_truth_of_feeling_by_ted_chiang

This sounds like a great class; I'd love to see the syllabus when it's put
together!

Best,

Sarah

-- 
*Sarah Myers West*
Doctoral Candidate and Wallis Annenberg Graduate Research Fellow
Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
University of Southern California
E-mail: sarahmye at usc.edu
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Liana Gross Furini <
lianagrossfurini at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Emma,
>
> Although not properly "digital" culture, I always like to indicate the
> movie "The Imitation Game" to the students.
>
> If you are seeking fictional stuff, there is the series "Mr. Robot", which
> addresses the digital culture and also the hacking culture. It's awesome!
>
> Other possibilities are "TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard", a
> documentary based on the trial of the three founders of The Pirate Bay, and
> "Zero Days", a documentary about a malware used against the Iran and
> addresses the influence of cyber attacks on people's lives.
>
> I hope it helps. Good luck!
> Liana.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Thomas Ball <xtc283 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This BBC documentary titled *The Joy of Data* is a pretty good overview
> of
> > digital culture...
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.
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> >
> > 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...
> >
> > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.
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> >
> >
> > 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*
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