Readings

Citations for readings and videos are posted here. In most cases, you will be able to download and read the reading assignment; you may need to authenticate for access to articles from City Tech library subscription databases.
A few readings will be available on reserve in the City Tech library.
Baker, N. (2008, March 20). The charms of Wikipedia. New York Review of Books 55(4). http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/mar/20/the-charms-of-wikipedia/

Bee, R. (2008). The importance of preserving paper-based objects in a digital world. Library Quarterly, 78, 179-194.

boyd, d. (2008). Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 14(1), 13 -20.

Center for Social Media. (2008). The code of best practices in fair use for media literacy education. http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education

Common Craft. (2007). Blogs in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

Common Craft. (2008). Social media in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/video/social-media

Common Craft. (2007). Wikis in plain English. http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english

Common Craft. (2008). Web search strategies in plain English.

http://www.commoncraft.com/search

Cornell University Library. (2009). Critically analyzing information sources. http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill26.htm

Dye, J. (2006). Folksonomy: A game of high-tech (and high-stakes) tag. EContent, 29(3), 38-43.

Edge, I.E. (2006). Write it down! The importance of documentation. Tech Directions 66(3), 16-18.

Eland, T. (2004). Critical thinking, deviant knowledge and the alternative press. Minnesota Association for Continuing Adult Education Update Newsletter, December, 4-6.
(available at http://library.minneapolis.edu/courses/infs1000/files/Readings/Critical Thinking Deviant Knowledge.pdf)

Elton, S. (2009, August 29). Love for labels. Billboard, 121(34), 4.

Faden, E. (2007). A fair(y) use tale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Fister, B. (2003). The devil in the details: Media representation of ritual abuse and evaluation of sources. SIMILE: Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education, 3(2), 1-14.

Gibaldi, J. (2009). MLA handbook for writers of research papers. New York: Modern Language Association of America.

Goodin, D. (2007, January 8). Managing content in a rich-media world. InfoWorld. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/managing-content-in-rich-media-world-635?page=0,0

Grey, C.G.P (2011). Copyright: Forever less one day. http://blog.cgpgrey.com/copyright-forever-less-one-day/

Grimmelman, J. (2008/2009). The Google Dilemma. New York Law School Law Review, 53, 939-950. http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018 &context=james_grimmelmann

Harrington, M. and C. Meade. (2008). read:write: Digital possibilities for literature. Institute for the Future of the Book. http://www.futureofthebook.org.uk/ifbook%20ACE%20report_final.pdf

Harrod, H. (2009, March 28). It’s the playground of narcissistic teenagers and amateur photographers, but 3 billion images (and counting) on Flickr could be the greatest social document of the century. Daily Telegraph, 22.

Hauptman, R. (2008). Documentation. A history and critique of attribution, commentary, glosses, marginalia, notes, bibliographies, works-cited lists, and citation indexing and analysis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company. (in the library on Reserve: call number PN171 .F56 H38 2008)

Isserman, M. (2003, May 2). Plagiarism: a lie of the mind. Chronicle of Higher Education, 49(34), B12.

Leibman, A. (2010). How search engines work: the mechanics behind the results. Smart Computing, 21(6), 50-51. http://bit.ly/oSkljD

Lessig, L. (2007). Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity.

Levi, Y. (2008). Digital preservation: An ever-growing challenge. Information Today, 25(8), 22.

Levinson, C. (2006). Anthropology, taxonomies, and publishing. Online, 30(4), 28-30.

Library of Congress. (n.d.). Library of Congress Classification Outline.

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

Liddy, E. (2001). How a search engine works. Searcher, 9(5), 39-45.

Malitz, D. (2007, October 11). Radiohead’s ‘Rainbows’: Is free release a potential pot of gold? The Washington Post, C01. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2007/10/10/AR2007101002442.html

Marshall, Patrick. “Online Privacy.” CQ Researcher 6 Nov. 2009: 933-56. Web. 12 Jan. 2011.

Martin, B. (1998). The politics of research. In Information liberation: Challenging the corruptions of information power. London: Freedom Press (available at: http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/98il/il07.pdf)

Pavlik, J. V. (2008). Media in the digital age. New York: Columbia University Press. (in the library on Reserve: call number HM851 .P38 2008)

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) (2009). APA Formatting and Style Guide. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL) (2009). MLA Formatting and Style Guide. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Robinson, C. (2009). Documentation dilemmas. Journal for Quality & Participation, 31(4), 35-37.

Sloan, R. (2004.). EPIC 2015 – Museum of Media History. http://epic.makingithappen.co.uk/

UC Berkeley – Teaching Library Internet Workshops. (2010). Evaluating web pages: Techniques to apply and questions to ask.

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html

Web 2.0. (2012, January 26). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Web_2.0

Wright, F. (1997). The history and characteristics of zines, Part I.

http://www.zinebook.com/resource/wright1.html

Zine World. (2007). Zines 101—A quick guide to zines. http://www.undergroundpress.org/pdf/Zines101.pdf