Storify

Some colleagues use Storify to organise teaching materials. See here, on reality TV.

Social Media readings link

These are available free until 31 March 2012 only.

Teaching with Pinterest

Interesting link c/o Karina Berzins.

On cheating

The dangers of buying an essay.

Publisher's mini-site

The publisher Norton runs a useful mini-site of (film) teaching materials, including model essays, here.

Academics with Useful Teaching Blogs 1

Terri Senft


Mark Beachill

Al Filreis

Some materials will link to specific modules taught by these scholars, but elsewhere there is more general advice (and more!) on the skills needed to ace a degree in the humanities. Happy hunting!

PS. Here is some reading to get you started on marketing and branding.

How we saw the future (in the 1990s)

Some context-specific readings from the IT debates (as debated at a given historical moment), which may have fed into subsequent discussions of social networks etc:

Brook, J & Boal, I A (eds) (1995) Resisting the Virtual Life: the Culture and Politics of Information. San Francisco: City Lights

Dovey, J (ed) (1996) Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Context. London: Lawrence and Wishart

Feldman, T (1997) An Introduction to Digital Media. London: Routledge

Forester, T & Morrison, P (1994) Computer Ethics: Cautionary Tales and Ethical Dilemmas in Computing. Oxford: Blackwell

Gates, B (1996) The Road Ahead (revised edn). London: Penguin

Gates, B (1999) Business at the Speed of Thought. London: Penguin

Gill, K (ed) (1996) Information Society: New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism. London: Springer

Landow, George (1997) Hypertext 2.0: Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (2nd revised edn). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP

Landow, George (ed) (1995) Hyper-Text-Theory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP

Loader, B (ed) (1997) The Governance of Cyberspace. London: Routledge

Lyon, D (1988) The Information Society: Issues and Illusions. Cambridge: Polity

Lyon, D (1994) The Electronic Eye: The Rise of the Surveillance Society. University of Minneapolis

Negroponte, N (1995) Being Digital. London: Hodder and Stoughton

Rheingold, H (1994) The Virtual Community: Finding Connection in a Computerized World. London: Secker and Warburg

Roszak, T (1994) The Cult of Information: A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the True Art of Thinking. London: University of California Press

Rushkoff, D (1994) Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace. London: HarperCollins

Sardar, Z & Ferome, R (eds) (1996) Cyberfutures: Culture and Politics on the Information Highway. London: Pluto Press

Silverstone, R & Hirsch, E (eds) (1992) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces. London and New York: Routledge

Smith, A (1996) Software for the Self: Culture and Technology. London: Faber

Stallabrass, J (1996) Gargantua: Manufactured Mass Culture. London: Verso

Sterling, B (1993) The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. London: Penguin

Stoll, C (1995) Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information Highway. London: Macmillan

Woolley, B (1992) Virtual Worlds: A Journey in Hype and Hyperreality. Oxford: Blackwell

Fiction

Brooke-Rose, Christine (1990) Verbivore. Manchester: Carcanet

Forster, E M (1947) 'The Machine Stops' in Collected Short Stories. London: Penguin

Gibson, W (1986) Neuromancer. London: Corgi

Stephenson, Neal (1994) Snow Crash. London: Penguin

Films

Blade Runner (1982)

Hackers (1995)

Johnny Mnemonic (1995)

The Lawnmower Man (1992)

The Net (1995)

Strange Days (1995)