COMM3715
COMM 3715 Reading List
Dr Kristofer Erickson
k.erickson@leeds.ac.uk
Tutor information is taken from the Module Catalogue
Week 1:
Curran, J., 2016. ‘Rethinking Internet History.’ In J. Curran, N. Fenton, and D. Freedman (eds.), Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge, pp. 117-144
Correll, S., 1995. The ethnography of an electronic bar: The lesbian cafe. Journal of contemporary ethnography, 24(3), pp.270-298.
Week 2:
Pasquale, F., 2017. 'Will Amazon Take over the World?' Boston Review online: https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/frank-pasquale-will-amazon-take-over-world
Freedman, D. (2016) ‘Outsourcing Internet Regulation’, in J. Curran, N. Fenton, and D. Freedman (eds.), Misunderstanding the Internet. London: Routledge, pp. 95-120.
Week 3:
McIntrye, T. J., and Scott, C., 2008. ‘Internet Filtering: Rhetoric, Legitimacy, Accountability, and Responsibility’, in R. Brownsword & K. Yeung (eds.), Regulating Technologies. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 109-124.
Lewis, R., 2018. ‘Alternative Influence: Broadcasting the reactionary right on YouTube. Data & Society report. Available online: https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/DS_Alternative_Influence.pdf
Week 4:
Halfaker, A., Geiger, R.S., Morgan, J. and Riedl, J., 2012. The Rise and Decline of an Open Collaboration System: How Wikipedia’s reaction to popularity is causing its decline. American Behavioural Scientist, pp. 664 - 688.
Bastos, M. T., & Mercea, D., 2019. The Brexit botnet and user-generated hyperpartisan news. Social science computer review, 37(1), 38.
Week 5:
O'Brien, D. 2018. ‘Facebook’s Carolyn Everson on the ‘foundation of trust’ needed for the platform to survive’. The Drum. Available online: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/10/01/facebook-s-carolyn-everson-the-foundation-trust-needed-the-platform-survive
Renaud, K. and Shepherd, L.A., 2018. How to Make Privacy Policies both GDPR-Compliant and Usable. 2018 International Conference On Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics And Assessment (Cyber SA) (pp. 1-8). IEEE. Available online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.06670.pdf
Week 6:
Davies, H. & Enyon, R. 2017. Tacking Digital inequality: We have to think bigger. Oxford Internet Institute blog: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/tackling-digital-inequality-why-we-have-to-think-bigger/
Davies, H. C., Eynon, R., & Wilkin, S. (2017). Neoliberal gremlins? How a scheme to help disadvantaged young people thrive online fell short of its ambitions. Information, Communication & Society, 20(6), 860-875.
Week 7:
Husovec, M., 2019. How Europe wants to redefine global online copyright enforcement. Pluralism or Universalism in International Copyright Law, TILEC Discussion Paper. Available online: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372230
Erickson, K., & Kretschmer, M. Empirical Approaches to Intermediary Liability. Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability. Avaialble online: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3400230
Week 8:
Boyle, J., 2008. The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Chapter 8: 'A Creative Commons'. Available online under Creative Commons license: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty_scholarship/2708/
Week 9:
Lawler, R., 2021. Biden's Executive Order puts net Neutrality back in the spotlight. The Verge. https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22570567/biden-net-neutrality-competition-eo
Marsden, C., 2010. Net Neutrality: Towards a Co-regulatory Solution. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Chapter 1: 'Net neutrality as a debate about more than just economics'. Available online open access: https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/net-neutrality-towards-a-co-regulatory-solution/
Week 10:
Katzenbach, C., Herweg, S., & Van Roessel, L. (2016). Copies, clones, and genre building: Discourses on imitation and innovation in digital games. International Journal of Communication, 10, 22.
Week 11:
No readings assigned this week.
This list was last updated on 26/08/2021