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Digital Methods Initiative
November 2008


Social Networking Sites
boyd, danah and Nicole Ellison (2007, October). "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13 (1), article 11.

Tufekci, Zeynep. (2008) "Can You See Me Now? Audience and Disclosure Regulation in Online Social Network Sites," Bulletin of Science Technology Society 2008; 28; 20. 


The User
boyd, danah. (2007) “None of this is Real: Identity and Participation in Friendster,” Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis). New York: Social Science Research Council, pp 132-156. 

Baym, Nancy. The Widgetized Self, April 9th, 2007 http://www.onlinefandom.com/archives/the-widgetized-self/

Sack, Warren. (2007) "Picturing the Public," Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis). New York: Social Science Research Council, pp 164-174, http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/books/2007/12/31/structures-of-participation-in-digital-culture/

Livingstone, Sonia. (2005) "Mediating the public/private boundary at home: children’s use of the internet for privacy and participation," Journal of media practice, 6 (1), pp. 41-51. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/ppjournals.php?issn=14682753


Control
Karaganis, Joe. (2007) "The Ecology of Control: Filters, Digital Rights Management, and Trusted Computing," Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis). New York: Social Science Research Council, p. 256- 280, http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/books/2007/12/31/structures-of-participation-in-digital-culture/.

Creating the Walled Garden, M. Guhlin
"The following list is useful if you want to create a "walled garden" of safe Web 2.0 tools you can use within your school's intranet, or even Internet, but have complete control over".


Flow and Boundaries
de Cauter, Lieven (2001). "THE CAPSULE AND THE NETWORK: NOTES FOR A GENERAL THEORY". Oase.

Chun, Wendy. "The Enduring Ephemeral, or the future is a memory," Critical Inquiry Volume 35, Number 1, Autumn 2008.

Hummel, Volker, Television and Literature: David Foster Wallace's Concept of Image-Fiction, Don DeLillo's White Noise and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland. http://home.foni.net/~vhummel/Image-Fiction/chapter_4.1.1.html 

Bowker, Geoffrey. (2007) "The Past and the Internet,"  Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis). New York: Social Science Research Council, p. 20-36, http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/books/2007/12/31/structures-of-participation-in-digital-culture/

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