Readings

MMC 6612 New Media and a Democratic Society

Fall 2015


Alhabash, S., & McAlister, A. R. (2015). Redefining virality in less broad strokes: Predicting
viral behavioral intentions from motivations and uses of Facebook and Twitter. New
Media & Society, 17(8), 13171339. doi:10.1177/1461444814523726

Asmolov, G. (2015). Crowdsourcing and the folksonomy of emergency response: The
construction of a mediated subject. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture,
6(2), 155178. doi:10.1386/iscc.6.2.155_1

Barger, W., & Barney, R. D. (2004). Media-citizen reciprocity as a moral mandate. Journal of
Mass Media Ethics, 19(3/4), 191206.

Bennett, W. L. (2012). The personalization of politics: Political identity, social media, and
changing patterns of participation. Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science, 644(1), 2039. doi:10.1177/0002716212451428

Berger, J., & Milkman, K. (2012). What makes online content viral? Journal of Marketing
Research, 49(2), 192205. doi:10.1509/jmr.10.0353

Brabham, D. C. (2012). Motivations for participation in a crowdsourcing application to
improve public engagement in transit planning. Journal of Applied Communication
Research, 40(3), 307328. doi:10.1080/00909882.2012.693940

Comor, E., & Bean, H. (2012). Americas engagement delusion: Critiquing a public
diplomacy consensus. International Communication Gazette, 74(3), 203220.
doi:10.1177/1748048511432603

Ekstrm, M. (2008). Research on media and democracy: Reflections on changes and
challenges. Nordicom Review, 29(2), 4552. Available:
http://www.nordicom.gu.se/en/tidskrifter/nordicom-review-22008/research-
media-and-democracy-reflections-changes-and-challenges

Fuchs, C. (2012). The political economy of privacy on Facebook. Television & New Media,
13(2), 139159. doi:10.1177/1527476411415699

Leung, D. K. K., & Lee, F. L. F. (2014). Cultivating an active online counterpublic: Examining
usage and political impact of Internet alternative media. The International Journal of
Press/Politics, 19(3), 340359. doi:10.1177/1940161214530787

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Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Jung, J.-Y., Kim, Y.-C. (2013). From the wired to wireless generation?
Investigating teens Internet use through the mobile phone. Telecommunications
Policy, 37, 651661. doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2012.09.008 Available:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596112001784

John, N. A. (2014). File sharing and the history of computing: Or, why file sharing is called
file sharing. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 31(3), 198211.
doi:10.1080/15295036.2013.824597

Marwick, A., & boyd, d. (2011). To see and be seen: Celebrity practice on Twitter.
Convergence, 17(2), 139158. doi:10.1177/1354856510394539

Moon, S. J., & Hadley, P. (2014). Routinizing a new technology in the newsroom: Twitter as
a news source in mainstream media. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 58(2),
289305. doi:10.1080/08838151.2014.906435

Peretti, J. (2013, April 11). Essay: 13 ways to make something go viral. Available at
Facebook Stories: http://www.facebookstories.com/stories/1942/essay-13-ways-
to-make-something-go-viral

Richards, N. M. (2013). The dangers of surveillance. Harvard Law Review, 126, 19341965.
Available:
http://www.harvardlawreview.org/issues/126/may13/Symposium_9477.php

Shirky, C. (2011). The political power of social media: Technology, the public sphere, and
political change. Foreign Affairs, 90(1), 2841. Available:
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2010-12-20/political-power-social-media

Sderberg, J. (2013). Determining social change: The role of technological determinism in
the collective action framing of hackers. New Media & Society, 15(8), 12771293.
doi:10.1177/1461444812470093

Taddicken, M. (2014). The privacy paradox in the social web: The impact of privacy
concerns, individual characteristics, and the perceived social relevance on different
forms of self-disclosure. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(2), 248
273. doi:10.1111/jcc4.12052

Valenzuela, S., Arriagada, A., & Scherman, A. (2012). The social media basis of youth protest
behavior: The case of Chile. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 299314.
doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01635.x

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Wasserman, H. (2011). Mobile phones, popular media, and everyday African democracy:
Transmissions and transgressions. Popular Communication: The International
Journal of Media and Culture, 9(2), 146158. doi:10.1080/15405702.2011.562097

West, A. (2015, June 1). 17 disturbing things Snowden has taught us (so far). Available at
GlobalPost: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/politics/130703/edward-
snowden-leaks

Youmans, W. L., & York, J. C. (2012). Social media and the activist toolkit: User agreements,
corporate interests, and the information infrastructure of modern social
movements. Journal of Communication, 62(2), 315329. doi:10.1111/j.1460-
2466.2012.01636.x

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