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    1. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      And, so, I have clearly decided that there is a project in this. In this course I am working through what the terrain is for sociology's professional role in understanding digital sociality. We are beginning by "getting curious", per Zora Neale Hurston.

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    2. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      A few years ago it would not have been as easy to pick a random survey of public debates about digital sociality . I chose: 1. A news package from The NYTimes, "Everything is Gamer Gate". "The Data Is Ours" from Logic Magazine. "Debating The Sharing Economy" by Juliet Schor

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    3. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      These readings are about practical issues - time to get books and for final registrations to sort out - but also about how our culture is talking about digital stuff.

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    4. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      The NYTimes package is very timely because there is a growing consensus that political rhetoric (i.e. the rhetoric that matters) borrows heavily from pop culture rhetoric (i.e. the rhetoric that doesn't matter).

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    5. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      The piece from Logic introduces the popular idea that "data is the new oil", which opens up a line of questions about property, ownership, class, financialization and regulation.

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    6. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      And Juliet Schor has, of course, done more "big" sociology on digital stuff that most anyone in recent years. Her MacArthur funded study is huge for being qualitative but for wrestling with political economy AND culture.

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    7. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      The learning outcomes are to develop an "ear" for dialectics about what digital transformation means for society, some interest in a possible topic for their research papers, and an interest in the heavier class readings.

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    8. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019

      My professional outcome is to figure out how sociology speaks directly to social problems of digital sociality, if there is a clear line through the most recent research, and if there is something important enough in that line to warrant dissemination.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2019
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      *waits for Tressie to complete syllabus and then, ahem, “borrows” it, like and good teacher would* 😬 On a serious note, yeah where are the straight up social theory to internet texts? Too many are polemics, hence too insider-baseball for teaching purposes.

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    10. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019
      Replying to @zeynep

      That's EXACTLY what a good teacher does. :D My guess is there is a very small pool of people qualified to write the book we want & need. AND the incentives for writing it are null, at best. At worst, they are negative.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2019
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      *rest of thread devolves into trying to convince each other to write that book.* We need to volunteer someone! I think there’s a genuine and not a small audience for exactly that. Clickbait is tired, and there is a hunger for real conversation. But yep it’s structurally homeless.

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        2. Tressie McMillan Cottom‏Verified account @tressiemcphd 25 Aug 2019
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          I will bribe you.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2019
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          I see bribe wars in our future!

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