Digital Divide

The Brain, the Senses

1. Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants Marc Prensky
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-
%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part1.pdf
2. Do They Really Think Differently Marc Prensky
http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/Prensky%20-
%20Digital%20Natives,%20Digital%20Immigrants%20-%20Part2.pdf
3. The Internet Steven Johnson (pdf on canvas)

The Brain, the Senses

4 Learning to Think in a Digital World Maryanne Wolf
https://sachemlibraries.wikispaces.com/file/view/MaryAnneWolfOpEdThe+Boston+Globe.pdf
5 Learning Theory, Video Games, and Popular Culture James Gee
http://jamespaulgee.com/geeimg/pdfs/Learning,%20Games,%20and%20Popular%20Culture.
pdf page 5-8 section ACTION-AND-GOAL-DIRECTED PREPARATIONS FOR, AND
SIMULATIONS OF EMBODIED EXPERIENCES
6 Usability of Websites for Teenagers Jakob Nielsen
http://district4.extension.ifas.ufl.edu/tech/techpubs/usability4teens.pdf

The Brain, the Senses

7 User Skills Improving, But Only Slightly Jakob Nielsen https://www.nngroup.com/articles/user-
skills-improving-only-slightly/
8 Is Google Making Us Stupid Nicholas Carr
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/
9 Your Brain is Evolving Right Now Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan
http://phil343.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/7/9/3179736/your_brain_is_evolving_right_now_-
_small_and_vorgan.pdf
Social Life, Personal Life, School
1 Identity Crisis Sherry Turkle https://llk.media.mit.edu/courses/readings/Turkle-Life-Ch10.pdf
p 255-262
2 They Call Me Cyberboy Douglas Rushkoff
https://books.google.com/books?id=rWHqCZdFRbcC&pg=PT101&lpg=PT101&dq=%E2%80%A
2%09They+Call+Me+Cyberboy+Douglas+Rushkoff++time+digital+1996+not+so+long+ago+i+co
uld+freak&source=bl&ots=S3-
eHheq1F&sig=2Q5z13EtZajE4j5vF3Vm1__K0Ls&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB4-
zL_PzRAhVG8IMKHQB1BgIQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%A2%09They%20Call%20Me%
20Cyberboy%20Douglas%20Rushkoff%20%20time%20digital%201996%20not%20so%20long
%20ago%20i%20could%20freak&f=false
3 The Peoples Net Douglas Rushkoff
https://books.google.com/books?id=rWHqCZdFRbcC&pg=PT101&lpg=PT101&dq=%E2%80%A
2%09They+Call+Me+Cyberboy+Douglas+Rushkoff++time+digital+1996+not+so+long+ago+i+co
uld+freak&source=bl&ots=S3-
eHheq1F&sig=2Q5z13EtZajE4j5vF3Vm1__K0Ls&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB4-
zL_PzRAhVG8IMKHQB1BgIQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%A2%09They%20Call%20Me%
20Cyberboy%20Douglas%20Rushkoff%20%20time%20digital%201996%20not%20so%20long
%20ago%20i%20could%20freak&f=false

Social Life, Personal Life, School

4 Social Currency Douglas Rushkoff http://www.thefeaturearchives.com/100068.html

5 The Eight Net Gen Norms Don Tapscott

http://digitaldimensions.wikispaces.com/file/view/03_16921_Tapscott_03_r4-
1.pdf/363321414/03_16921_Tapscott_03_r4-1.pdf

6 Love Online Henry Jenkins https://www.technologyreview.com/s/401686/love-online/

Social Life, Personal Life, School

7 We Cant Ignore the Influence of Digital Technologies Cathy Davidson (pdf on canvas)

8 Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism Christine Rosen

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/virtual-friendship-and-the-new-narcissism

9 https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/how-does-digital-media-really-affect-us/ How
Does Digital Media Really Affect Us
The Fate of Culture
1 What is Web 2.0: Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
Tim OReilly p 17-27 or p 2-12 of pdf
https://soc334technologyandsociety.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/oreilly2007.pdf
2 Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On Tim OReilly and John Battelle
http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/28/web2009_websquared-whitepaper.pdf
3 Web 2:0: The Second Generation of the Internet Has Arrived and Its Worse Than You Think
Andrew Keen https://methainternet.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/web-20-the-second-
generation-of-the-internet-has-arrived-its-worse-than-you-think/

The Fate of Culture

4 Wikipedia and Beyond: Jimmy Wales Sprawling Vision Katherine Mangu-Ward
http://reason.com/archives/2007/05/30/wikipedia-and-beyond
5 The End of Solitude William Deresiewicz
http://www.hermitary.com/solitude/deresiewicz.html
6 http://www.aspeninstitutece.org/en/article/4-2014-how-the-internet-and-social-media-are-
changing-culture/ How the Internet and Social Media is Changing Culture