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

Tue Dec 20 12:25:41 PST 2016

I'd also recommend Cory Doctorow's Anda's Game - it goes into some of the
same issues as the recommended novel but might work better for a class like
this.  There's a great blog post about race and ethnicity in Second Life
here: http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/02/the_skin_youre_.html

The Guild is a fantastic fictional web series for introducing people to
digital and gaming culture.  It has a relatively diverse cast and is
created by Felicia Day.  You can find some great recommendations for work
by African-American creators in Womack's *Afrofuturism: The Work of Black
Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture* along with her commentary on the genre as a
whole.

I'd also love to see the syllabus when you're done!

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Sarah Myers West <sarahmye at usc.edu> wrote:

> 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
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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.
> > youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DXgp7BIBtPhk&d=DwIGaQ&c=
> > clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=gJyKVLUT-m8zonQnUmsbNA&m=
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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.
> > nytimes.com_2016_12_14_magazine_the-2Dgreat-2Dai-
> > 2Dawakening.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN
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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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