Readings

LEC # TOPICS READINGS
2 Thinking About Identity: Categorization, Prototypes, Stereotypes

Simmel, George. “How is society possible?” In On Individuality and Social Forms.

Holland and Skinner. “Prestige and intimacy.” In Cultural models of language and thought. Edited by Holland and Quinn.

Hirschfeld, Lawrence. Race in the Making. Chap. 0 and 1.

3 Cultural Identity Part 1: Language, Dialects and Email

Saville-Troike, Muriel. The Ethnography of Communication. Chap. 2 and 3.

Donath, Judith. Identity and deception in the virtual community.(http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html)

Cherny, Lynn. Conversation and Community. Skim Chap. 4.

4 Cultural Identity Part 2: Fashions in Clothing, Music and Links

Thornton, Sarah. Club Cultures. Chap. 4.

McCracken, Grant. Culture and Consumption. Chap. 5.

Davis, Fred. Fashion. Culture and Identity. Chap. 1.

5 The Face

Zebrowitz. Reading Faces. Chap. 2 and 3.

Bruce and Young. In the Eye of the Beholder. Chap. 5.

Donath. Mediated Faces.

8 Databanks and Privacy

Jeffrey Rosen. The Unwanted Gaze. Prologue and Chap. 2.

Clarke, Roger. “Introduction to Dataveillance and Information Privacy.”

9 Visualizations: Depicting the Abstract and Mediated Self

LifeLines: Visualizing Personal Histories.

Developing Legible Visualizations for Online Social Spaces (HICSS2002.pdf)

Review exhibits shown for Id/entity.