Institutes, Museums, Research Groups and More!
Child Data Citizen Project. How the experience of childhood is being transformed by production of personally identifying digital data; families in London and Los Angeles, with in-depth interviews, activities on social media, and more.
DigCompEdu: European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators. Scientifically sound framework describing what it means for educators to be digitally competent. Provides a general reference frame to support the development of educator-specific digital competences in Europe.
eSchool News. Covering innovations in ed tech, this monthly newspaper provides news and info for K-20 decision-makers to successfully use technology and the Internet; with best practices, product reviews, and news.
International Society for Technology in Education, ISTE. Global educators who believe in the power of technology to transform teaching and learning, accelerate innovation, and solve tough problems in education. Publish ISTE Standards and other publications.
Toolkit for Digitally-Literate Teachers (USC Rossier). Provides teachers and school administrators with how-to guides, actionable strategies, and real-life examples of the benefits of digital literacy in the classroom.
We Are Social. Global team across 13 countries, united to connect people and brands in meaningful ways. For global statistics on media use, see: Digital in 2020, and Think Forward 2020.
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning (US Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, May, 2023)
eBooks
Speech Police: The Global Struggle to Govern the Internet, by ISBN: 9780999745489Date: 2019Online book, from JSTOR.
Book crucial to understanding the tactics, rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech debates in human history: The Internet. David Kaye goes behind the scenes, from Facebook "mini-legislative" meetings to European Commission closed-door negotiations, introducing journalists, activists, and content moderators who bring clarity and urgency to the topic of censorship. The most comprehensive, insightful treatment of the subject thus far, Speech Police reminds us of the importance of maintaining the Internet's original commitment to free speech, free of any company or government absolute control, while finding ways to modulate its worst aspects.
Youth Media Matters: Participatory Cultures and Literacies in Education, by ISBN: 9780816691869Date: 2018Online book, from JSTOR.
Examines how young people are using new media technologies to tell stories about themselves and their social worlds. They do so through joint efforts in a range of educational settings and media environments, including high school classrooms, youth media organizations, and social media sites. The author draws on various theories to show how educators can harness the power of youth media to provide new opportunities for meaningful learning and "do-it-together production."
Social Media and Digital Technologies
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting
Internet phenomena: Viral videos, image macros,
catch phrases, web celebs and more.
Publications of All Kinds
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Americans on Cancel Culture (PEW Research Center, May 19, 2021)
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Cambridge Analytica Files: A year-long investigation into Facebook, data, and influencing elections in the digital age (The Guardian)
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Columnist on technology (Geoffrey Fowler, The Washington Post)
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Data for Black Lives (Yeshimabeit Milner, Lucas Mason-Brown, Jamelle Watson-Daniels, Tawana Petty, Akina (Aki) Younge, Paul Watkins)
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Ever wonder what kind of men harass women online? Researchers found out. Just in case you needed another reason to not be a sore loser (Wagatwe Wanjuki, UpWorthy, July 27, 2015)
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Giphy. Find & Make Gifs.
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The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Disinformation (Computational Propaganda Research Project, Oxford)
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How much of the Internet Is fake? Turns out, a lot of it, actually (Max Read, New York Magazine, Dec 26, 2018)
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Human Rights Racial Equality & New Information Technologies: Mapping the Structural Threats (UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, June, 2020)
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Instagram art project spreads awareness about femicides in Mexico (Paola Mardo, The World, March 2, 2018)
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The internet, but not as we know it: Life online in China, Cuba, India and Russia (Michael Safi, Lily Kuo, Ed Augustin, & Andrew Roth, The Guardian, Jan 11, 2019)
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A New Tool Shows How Google Results Vary Around the World: Search Atlas displays three sets of links—or images—from different countries for any search (Tom Simonite, WIRED, July 11, 2021)
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A 'political hit job'? Why the alt-right is accusing big tech of censorship (Jason Wilson, The Guardian, March 4, 2018)
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Propaganda Critic (Aaron Delwiche & Mary Margaret Herring, Aug 10, 2018)
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Revealed: Facebook's internal rulebook on sex, terrorism and violence (Nick Hopkins, The Guardian, May 21, 2017)
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A Scholar's Guide to Google (Harvard Library, June 8, 2017)
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Sometimes Google can be bad for learning history (Peter A Shulman, Twitter, Feb 22, 2017)
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SoundClowns (ViceNews)
Surveillance giants: How the business model of Google and Facebook threatens human rights (Amnesty International, 2019)
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TikTok's "Be Informed" series stars TikTok creators to educate users about media literacy (Stephanie Hind & Tara Wadhwa, TikTok: Newsroom, July 16, 2020)
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When seeing is no longer believing: Inside the Pentagon’s race against deep fake videos (CNN Business, 2019)
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You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die (Oscar Schwartz, The Guardian, Nov 12, 2018)
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Social media can inflame your emotions - and it's a byproduct of its design (8 min. podcast on NPR, Sept. 6, 2022, Ari Shapiro interviews Max Fisher).
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DALL-E 2 (A new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language.)
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A People's Guide to Finding Algorithmic Bias (Center for Critical Race + Digital Studies)
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Echo chambers: How they are created and how to avoid them (Story Pennock, Poynter, May 5, 2023)
End User License Agreements (EULAs) re-written in friendly language (Association of Media Literacy)
Collections: Podcasts, TED Talks, Videos
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The End of Privacy as We Know It? (Host: Michael Barbaro; producers: Annie Brown & Daniel Guillemette, NY Times, 2020)
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Post No Evil (Simon Adler, WNYC Studios: Radiolab, Aug 17, 2018, 1:10:38 hrs.)
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The 'Weaponization' of Social Media — And Its Real-World Consequences (Terry Gross, Fresh Air: NPR, Oct 9, 2018, 36 mins.)
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Black Box (from the Guardian newspaper, using AI to commit and hide from crimes)
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Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit-- and the threat to democracy (April, 2019, 15:07 mins.)
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Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future (Sept 2018, 12:16 mins.)
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Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware (Dec 2019, 12:48 mins.)
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Mitch Resnik: Let's teach kids to code (Nov 2012, 16:34 mins.)
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Rameesh Srinivasan: Digital dissent and people's power (Nov 9, 2012, 18:55 mins.)
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Digital Pedagogy Lab 2019 | A New Jim Code? (Ruha Benjamin, UMW Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, Aug 5, 2019, 1:27:24 hrs.)
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The Future on New Media (Anil Dash, Big Think, Aug 10, 2009, 7:11 mins.)
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How the Internet Made Us Believe in a Flat Earth (And Put the Planet in Danger?) (The Good Stuff, Dec 10, 2018, 8:58 mins.)
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Inside the Tech Meet-up Where Cambridge Analytica "Opened Up Their Playbook" (PBS: Frontline, March 21, 2018, 3:53 mins.)
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You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video! (BuzzFeedVideo, April 17, 2018, 1:12 mins.). Deep fake.
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Learning with Minecraft Let's Play Videos: Peer Pedagogies on Digital Platforms by Michael Dezuanni (July 13, 2021, 19:24 mins.)
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What is the Digital Closet by Alexander Monea (MIT Press, 2022, short video on YouTube)
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Search Engine Breakdown: Are Algorithms Racist and Sexist? (NOVA PBS, 20:34)
Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence (John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, HBO, Feb 26, 2023, 27:52 mins.)
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Challenging the Algorithms of Oppression (Safiya Noble, Personal Democracy Forum, June 15, 2016, 12:18 mins.)
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English Education in an Artificial World (National Council of Teachers of English, Apr 2023, Vol. 55, Iss. 3, pp. 200-233).
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In the Age of AI (PBS: Frontline, Nov 5, 2019, 1:54 mins.)