Analysing Digital Culture (118110136Y)

Summaries of all the readings for the course Analyzing Digital Culture (including a list with the most important people you have to memorize). Got a 9 for the final exam, good luck! Place everything in context and understand the most important concepts.

This note includes all the necessary concepts for the exam.

With the use of this extensive summary, I was able to get a 9.5 for the final exam of this course. This document contains summaries of all of the lectures and readings of the course Analysing Ditigal Culture, written in the year 2018/2019. The summaries are structured by week, excluding week 4, since this week was a lecture and reading free week (at least in my year).

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 2. The format followed to summarise is the one suggested during the seminars. Texts: Nicholas A. John, The Social Logics of Sharing. José Van Dijck and Thomas Poell, Understanding the promises and premises of online health platforms.

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 3. The format followed to summarise is the one suggested during the seminars. Texts: Tarleton Gillespie, The relevance of algorithms. Alexis C. Madrigal, How Netflix reverse engineered Hollywood. Nick Seaver, On Reverse Engineering. Looking for the cultural work of engineers.

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 1. The format followed to summarise is the one suggested during the seminars. Texts: Michael Stevenson, From Hypertext to Hype and Back Again: Exploring the Roots of Social Media in Early Web Culture. Malcom Gladwell, Small change. Shirky, The political power of social media.

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 7. The format followed to summarise is the one suggested during the seminars. Texts: Walker-Rettberg, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. Alice E. Marwick, Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy. Alise Tifentale and Lev Manovich. Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social Media.

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 5. Drake Baer, The ‘Filter Bubble’ Explains Why Trump Won and You Didn’t See It Coming. Benkler, Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda. Pariser, Filter Bubble.

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 7. Walker-Rettberg, Seeing Ourselves Through Technology. Alice E. Marwick, Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy. Alise Tifentale and Lev Manovich, Selfiecity: Exploring Photography and Self-Fashioning in Social Media.