Readings
Verini, J. (2006, March). Will Success Spoil MySpace.com. Vanity Fair.
Marks, Paul (2006, June 9). Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites. New Scientist. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200
Gross, R., & Acquisti, A. (2005). Information Revelation and Privacy in Online Social Networks. Paper presented at the ACM Workshop on privacy in the Electronic Society, Alexandria, VA.
Readings
Chan, E., & Vorderer, P. (2006). Massively Multiplayer Online Games. In P. Vorderer & J. Bryant (Eds.), Playing Video Games (pp. 77-113). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Jenkins, Henry (1999). Testimony before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/0504jen.pdf
Anderson, C., & Dill, K. (2000). Video Games and Aggressive Thoughts, Feelings, and Behavior in the Laboratory and in Life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 78(4), 772-790.
Lee, K. M., & Peng, W. (2006). What Do We Know About Social and Psychological Effects of Computer Games? A Comprehensive Review of the Current Literature. In P. Vorderer & J. Bryant (Eds.), Playing Video Games (pp. 327-345). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Williams, Dmitri (2005). “Groups and Goblins: The Social and Civic Impact of Online Gaming”. Working paper.
Readings
Koskela, H. (2000). 'The gaze without eyes': video-surveillance and the changing nature of urban space. Progress in Human Geography, 24(2), 243-265.
Lyon, David (2003). “Surveillance in the City.” In Steve Graham (ed.), The Cybercities Reader. New York: Routedge.
Green, Nicola (2001). “Who's Watching Whom? Monitoring and Accountability” in Mobile Relations, Wireless World: Social and Interactional Aspects of the Mobile Age. New York: Springer-Verlag.
Curry, M., Phillips, D., & Regan, P. (2004). Emergency Response Systems and the Creeping Legibility of People and Places. The Information Society, 20, 357-369.
Jones, Quentin and Grandhi, Sukeshini (2005). Supporting Proximate Communities with P3-Systems: Technology for Connecting People-to-People-to-Geographical-Places. In M. Weiberg (ed) The Interaction Society: Practice, Theories, & Supportive Technologies. New York: Idea Group.
Zetter, K. (2005, April 15). Surveillance Works Both Ways. Wired News. http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/1,67216-0.html
Holson, L. (2006, April 5). Disney Phone Service Has Parents in Mind. New York Times.
No readings this week.
Readings
Jackson, L. A., vonEye, A., Biocca, F. A., Barbatsis, G., Zhao, Y., & Fitzgerald, H. E. (2006). Children's Home Internet Use: Antecedents and Psychological, Social, and Academic Consequences In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Keisler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 145-167). New York: Oxford University press.
Farrell , Elizabeth. (September 2, 2005) “Logging On, Tuning Out: When Students Lose Themselves in Online Worlds, it can be Hard to bring Them Back to Reality.” The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Mesch, G., & Talmud, I. (2006). The Quality of Online and Offline Relationships: The Role of Multiplexity and Duration of Social Relationships. The Information Society, 22, 137-148.
Ling, R., & Yttri, B. (2006). Control, Emancipation, and Status. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Keisler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 219-234). New York: Oxford University press.
Ito, M., & Okabe, D. (2006). Intimate Connections. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Keisler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 235-247). New York: Oxford University press.
Readings
Oldenburg, Ray. (2003). “The Third Place.” In David Levinson and Karen Christensen (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 1373-1375.
Ling, Rich. (1997). “One Can Talk About Common Manners!: The use of Mobile Telephones in Inappropriate Situations.” In Haddon, L (ed). Themes in Mobile Telephony. Telia, FarstaLing.
Lee, S. (1999). Private uses in public spaces: A study of internet cafe. New Media & Society, 1(3), 331-350.
Hampton, Keith and Neeti Gupta (forthcoming). Grande Wi-Fi: Social Interaction in Wireless Coffee Shops.
Readings
Goldberger, Paul. (2003, November). “Disconnected Urbanism: The Cell Phone Has Changed Our Sense of Place More Than Faxes, Computers, and E-Mail.” Metropolis Magazine.
Ling, Rich. (2002). “The Social Juxtaposition of Mobile Telephone Conversations and Public Spaces.” Presented at the conference on the social consequences of mobile telephones. Chunchon, Korea.
Humphreys, L. (2005). Cellphones in public: social interactions in a wireless era. New Media & Society, 7(6), 810-833.
Sandvig, C. (2004). An initial assessment of cooperative action in Wi-Fi networking. Telecommunications Policy, 28, 579-602.
Readings:
Hampton, Keith and Barry Wellman. (2003). “Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb.” City and Community 2(4), 277-311.
Matei, Sorin and Sandra Ball-Rokeach (2001). “Real and Virtual Social Ties: Connections in the Everyday Lives of Seven Ethnic Neighborhoods”. American Behavioral Scientist 45(3), 550-564.
Hampton, Keith (forthcoming). e-Neighbors: Neighborhoods in the Network Society. Information, Communication and Society.
Kavanaugh, A., Carroll, J. M., Rosson, M. B., Zin, T. T., & Reese, D. D. (2005). Community Networks: Where Offline Communities Meet Online. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 10(4), article 3.
Servon, L., & Pinkett, R. (2004). Narrowing the Digital Divide: The Potential and Limits of the US Community Technology Movement. In M. Castells (Ed.), The Network Society: A Cross-cultural Perspective (pp. 319-338). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
Readings:
Robinson, John, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl and Anthony Alvarez (2002). “The Internet and Other Uses of Time.” In Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, The Internet in Everyday Life. Blackwell.
Robinson, J., & Haan, J. D. (2006). Information Technology and Family Time Displacement. In R. Kraut, M. Brynin & S. Keisler (Eds.), Computers, Phones, and the Internet: Domesticating Information Technology (pp. 51-69). New York: Oxford University Press.
Quan-Haase, Anabel, Barry Wellman, James Witte, and Keith Hampton (2002). “Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement and Sense of Community.” in Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, The Internet in Everyday Life. Blackwell.
Boase, J., Horrigan, J., Wellman, B., & Rainie, L. (2006). The Strength of Internet Ties. Washington, DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project.
Haythornthwaite, C. (2002). Strong, Weak and Latent Ties and the Impact of New Media. The Information Society, 18, 1-17.
Readings:
Baym, N., Zhang, Y. B., & Lin, M.-C. (2004). Social Interactions Across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Telephone and Face-to-Face. New Media & Society, 6(3), 299-318.
Zhao, S. (2006). Do Internet Users Have More Social Ties? A Call for Differentiated Analyses of Internet Use. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 8.
Wieland, D. M. (2005). Computer Addiction: Implications for Nursing Psychotherapy Practice. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care, 41(4), 153-161.
Sander, Thomas (2005). E-associations? Using Technology to Connect Citizens: The Case of Meetup.com. Meeting of the American Political Science Association.