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Books
Books
Established in 2020, a sub-group of MASTS participants selected books to read considering digital technology studies from different disciplinary perspectives.
Fall 2020 & Spring 2021:
Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (2005)
Ryan Ellis, Letters, Power Lines, and Other Dangerous Things: The Politics of Infrastructure Security (2020)
Whitney Phillips & Ryan M. Milner, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (2021)
Sarah T. Roberts, Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media (2019)
Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015)
Nicholas P. Suzor, Lawless: The Secret Rules that Govern Our Digital Lives (2019)
Charlton McIlwain, Black Software: The Internet and Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter (2019)
Sun-ha Hong, Technologies of Speculation: The Limits of Knowledge in a Data-Driven Society (2020)
David J. Gunkel, Robot Rights (2018)
Movies
Movies
Another sub-group established itself to co-watch movies and television shows at a distance, choosing titles on themes of "technological dystopia and apocalypse" and "technological utopianism and diegetic prototyping."
Fall 2020:
The World, The Flesh, and The Devil (1959)
Soylent Green (1973)
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
Born in Flames (1983)
The Hunger Games (2012)
Snowpiercer (2013)
Spring 2021:
Black Panther (2018)
World’s Fair Double Feature (1939)
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) & Star Trek: The New Generation (1987)
eXistenZ (1999)
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century (1999)
Smart House (1999)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Robots (2005)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
Robot and Frank (2012)
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Black Mirror, “San Junipero” (2016)
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