Theme: Technology & Society
- Page ID
- 341
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The following readings are concerned with technology and its place in (and effect upon) society. For more such readings, browse the technology, science, and research tags.
- “Whether the Digital Era Improves Society Is Up to Its Users – That’s Us” by danah boyd
- “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr
- “Being a Better Online Reader” by Maria Konnikova
- “The Great Asymmetry” by Stephen Jay Gould
- “Time and Distance Overcome” by Eula Biss
- “What Defines a Meme?” by James Gleick
- “How I Fell in Love with Wikipedia” by Nicholson Baker
- “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson
- “How 26 Tweets Broke My Filter Bubble” by B.J. May
- “Stars in My Pocket Like Bits of Data” by Paul Stephens
- “Googlepedia: Turning Information Behaviors into Research Skills” by Randall McClure
- “The Web Means the End of Forgetting” by Jeffrey Rosen
- “Addicted to Distraction” by Tony Schwartz
- “Video Games: The Addiction” by Tom Bissell
- “The Useless Agony of Going Offline” by Matthew J.X. Malady
- “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy” by Clive Thompson
- “The Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude” by Sherry Turkel
- “Brain Gain” by Margaret Talbot
- “The Brain on Trial” by David Eagleman
- “Seeing Responsibility: Can Neuroimaging Teach Us Anything about Moral and Legal Responsibility?” by David Wasserman and Josephine Johnston
- “The Food Babe: Enemy of Chemicals” by James Hamblin
- “A Pharmacological Education” by Walter Kirn
- “To Siri, with Love: How One Boy with Autism Became BFF with Apple’s Siri” by Judith Newman
- “Losing the Language of Silence” by Lou Ann Walker
- “Panopticism” by Michel Foucault
- “How We Sold Our Souls—and More—to the Internet Giants” by Bruce Schneier
- “The End-of-the-World’s Fair” by Rebecca Solnit
- “The Law of Accelerating Returns” by Ray Kurzweil