Required reading

Journal articles are available on the web when accessed from a computer on the University of Oslo network. To be able to find a research journal article on the Web is part of the skills necessary to pass this course.

In addition to the reading list below, each student will select 200-400 pages of literature. The selected reading must be approved by the subject teacher before 1 March.

Baym, Nancy K. (2010), Personal connections in the digital age, (Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press). 155 pages.
 
boyd, danah m. (2010), “Social Networds as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications,” In A Networked Self: Identity, Communicy and Culture on Social Network Sites, edited by Zizi Papacharissi, 39–58.
 
boyd, danah m., and Nicole B. Ellison. “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship.” Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 13.1 (2007), 210-30
 
Bucher, Taina (2012), ‘Want to be on the top? Algorithmic power and the threat of invisibility on Facebook’, New Media & Society, 14 (7), 1164-80.
 
Burgess, Jean og Joshua Green (ed.) (2014). YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Second edition. (Cambridge: Polity). 180 pages.
 
Fish, Adam, et al. (2011), ‘Birds of the Internet’, Journal of Cultural Economy, 4 (2), 157-87.
 
Luders, M. “Conceptualizing Personal Media.” New Media & Society 10.5 (2008): 683-702.

Rettberg, Jill Walker (2013). Blogging. Second edition. (Cambridge: Polity). 184 pages.

Staksrud, Elisabeth, Kjartan ?lafsson, and Sonia Livingstone (2013), ‘Does the use of social networking sites increase children’s risk of harm?’, Computers in Human Behavior, 29 (1), 40-50.

 

Suggested reading

Albarran, A. B. (Ed.). (2013). The social media industries. New York: Routledge.

Fattal, Alex. "Facebook: Corporate Hackers, a Billion Users, and the Geo-politics of the "Social Graph"". Anthropological Quarterly 85(3)

Fuchs, Christian. 2014. Social Media. A Critical Introduction. London: Sage.

van Dijck, J. (2013). The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.

van Dijck, J., & Poell, T. (2013). "Understanding social media logic."  Media and Communication, 1(1), 2-14.

Rainie, Lee and Barry Wellman. (2012) Networked: The New Social Operating System. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

 

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