Analysing Digital Culture

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.

In-depth, concise summary of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital Culture, Week 6. The format followed to summarise is the one suggested during the seminars. Texts: Henry Jenkins, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead (Part One): Media Viruses and Memes. Phillips, This is why we can't have nice things. Miltner, Internet memes.

In-depth concise resume of the assigned texts for Analysing Digital culture. Week one: Stevenson, From Hypertext to Hype and Back Again: Exploring the Roots of Social Media in Early Web Culture. Gladwell, Small change. Clay Shirky, The political power of social media.