Techno-identity: Who we are and how we perceive ourselves and others

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.