Olin Media Studies Reading Group List (Feb - Nov 2021)

I selected these books for the Olin Media Studies reading group, which met twice a month from February to November 2021.

• The Shallows - Nicholas Carr, 2010 (updated ed. 2020)
• Amusing Ourselves to Death - Neil Postman, 1985
• The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan, 1967
• What Can a Body Do? - Sara Hendren, 2020

Olin Learning Lab: Ethics in Technology (Jan-Mar 2022)

• Do Artifacts Have Politics? - Langdon Winner, 1980

• Rabbit Hole (Podcast) - The New York Times, 2020

  START HERE (Published 2020)

  An accessible and well-produced exploration of what I term the “YouTube heuristic” – i.e. “I will believe whatever a series of YouTube videos can convince me is true, no matter who created the video.” (As opposed to heuristics based on direct experience, a priori reasoning, trusting certain people or institutions, etc.)

Lectures, Podcasts

• Moralizing Technology and the ethics of things - Peter-Paul Verbeek, 2015

  Moralizing Technology and the ethics of things | Peter-Paul Verbeek | TEDxTwenteU

Books, Long Articles

Media

• Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud, 1993
• Art & Energy: How Culture Changes - Barry Lord, 2014
• Understanding Media - Marshall McLuhan, 1964

Knowledge, Systems, Philosophy