Digitala medieteknologier: produktion och mediekunnighet, 15 högskolepoäng

Module 1: Archives and Algorithms

Books

• Bolin, Göran (ed.) (2012). Cultural Technologies: The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society. New York: Routledge. (selection of 100 p.)
• Cheney-Lippold, John (2017). We Are Data: Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves. New York: New York University Press. (selection of 100 p.)
• Messarra, Luca, Freeland, Chris & Ziskina, Juliya (2024). Vanishing Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record. San Francisco, CA: Internet Archive. (130 p.)

Articles and Book Chapters

• Anna’s Archive (2024). The critical window of shadow libraries. Anna’s Blog, July 16. Available at: https://annas-archive.se/blog/critical-window.html (6 p.)
• Aouragh, Miriyam & Chakravartty, Paula (2016). Infrastructures of empire: Towards a critical geopolitics of media and information studies. Media, Culture & Society, 38(4), pp. 559–575. (16 p.)
• Beer, David & Burrows, Roger (2013). Popular Culture, Digital Archives and the New Social Life of Data. Theory, Culture & Society, 30(4), pp. 47–71. (24 p.)
• Gehl, Robert (2011). The archive and the processor: The internal logic of Web 2.0. New Media & Society, 13, pp. 1228–1244. (16 p.)
• Kaun, Anne (2016). Archiving protest digitally: The temporal regime of immediation. International Journal of Communication, 10, p. 5395. (16 p.)
• Just, Natascha & Latzer, Michael (2017). Governance by algorithms: Reality construction by algorithmic selection on the Internet. Media, Culture & Society, 39(2), pp. 238–258. (20 p.)
• Lynch, Clifford (2017). Stewardship in the "Age of Algorithms". First Monday, 22(12). DOI: 10.5210/fm.v22i112.8097. (15 p.)
• Manoff, Marlene (2004). Theories of the Archive from Across the Disciplines. Libraries and the Academy, 1, pp. 9–25. (16 p.)
• Manovich, Lev (2001). The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, pp. 212–236. (24 p.)
• Plantin, Jean-Christophe (2021). The Data Archive as Factory: Alienation and Resistance of Data Processors. Big Data & Society, 8(1). (15 p.)
• Striphas, Ted (2015). Algorithmic culture. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 18(4–5), pp. 395–412. (17 p.)

Additional Sources for Further Reference

• Manovich, Lev (2013). Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media. International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics. New York & London: Bloomsbury. (350 [EG1] p.)
• Niederer, Sabine & van Dijck, José (2010). Wisdom of the crowd or technicity of content? Wikipedia as a sociotechnical system. New Media & Society, 12(8), pp. 1368–1387. (19 p.)
• Seaver, Nick (2017). Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data & Society, 4(2). DOI: 10.1177/2053951717738104. (16 p.)
• Yeo, Shin Joung (2016). Geopolitics of search: Google versus China? Media, Culture & Society, 38(4), pp. 591–605. (14 p.)

Total amount of pages: ca 515 (+ 400 pages reference literatre)

Module 2: Critical Media and Information Literacy

Books

• Mihailidis, Paul (2018). Civic Media Literacies: Re-imagining Human Connection in an Age of Digital. Taylor & Francis Ltd. (160 p.)
• Kellner, Douglas & Share, Jeff (2019). The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education. Boston: Brill. (selection of 50 p.)

Articles and Book Chapters

• Bi, Xiaomei; Su, Xingyuan & Liu, Xiaoyan (2024). An Ellulian analysis of propaganda in the context of generative AI. Ethics and Information Technology, 26(60), pp. 1–11. (11 p.)
• Carlsson, Ulla (2019). Media and information literacy: Field of knowledge, concepts and history. In Carlsson, Ulla (ed.) Understanding Media and Information Literacy (MIL) in the Digital Age: A Question of Democracy, pp. 37–56. Gothenburg: Nordicom. (19 p.)
• Daepp, Madeleine I. G.; Cuevas, Alejandro; Osazuwa Ness, Robert; Yu-Ping Wang, Vickie; Kumar Nayak, Bharat; Mishra, Dibyendu; Cheng, Ti-Chung; Desai, Shaily; Pal, Joyojeet (2025). Generative Propaganda. Working paper, arXiv:2509.19147 [cs.CY]. (19 p.)
• Forsler, Ingrid & Ciccone, Michelle (2021). Making Visible the Invisible: Exploring McLuhan’s Figure/Ground in Digital Citizenship Education. Explorations in Media Ecology, 20(4), pp. 437–455. (18 p.)
• Forsman, Michael (2020). Media literacy and the emerging media citizen in the Nordic media welfare state. Nordic Journal of Media Studies, 2, pp. 59–70. (11 p.)
• Gray, Jonathan; Gerlitz, Caroline & Bounegru, Liliana (2018). Data infrastructure literacy. Big Data & Society, 5(2). (15 p.)
• Grizzle, Alton., Wilson, Carolyn., Tuazon, Ramon., Cheung, C.K., Lau, Jesus., Fischer, Rachel., Gordon, Dorothy., Akyempong, Kwame., Singh, Jagtar., Carr, Paul R., Stewart, Kristine., Tayie, Samy., Suraj, Olunifesi., Jaakkola, Maarit., Thésée, Gina., Gu, Curmira & Menyen, Andzongo (2021). Think Critically. Click Wisely: Media and Information Literacy Curriculum for Educators & Learners. Paris: UNESCO. (selection of 50 p.)
• Jandrić, Petar (2019). The Postdigital Challenge of Critical Media Literacy. The International Journal of Critical Media Literacy, 1, pp. 26–37. DOI: 10.1163/25900110-00101002. (13 p.)
• Klincewicz, Michał; Alfano, Mark; Fard, Amir Ebrahimi (2025). Slopaganda: The interaction between propaganda and generative AI. Filosofiska notiser, 12(1), pp. 135–162. (27 p.)
• Kumar, Priya C.; Cotter, Kelley; Cabrera, Laura Y. (2024). Taking Responsibility for Meaning and Mattering: An Agential Realist Approach to Generative AI and Literacy. Reading Research Quarterly, 59(4), pp. 570–578. (9 p.)
• López, Antonio (2020). Ecomedia: The metaphor that makes a difference. The Journal of Sustainability Education, 23(7). Available at: http://www.susted.com/wordpress/content/ecomedia-the-metaphor-that-makes-a-difference_2020_05/. (12 p.)
• Peters, John Durham (2015). Infrastructuralism: Media as Traffic between Nature and Culture. In Näser-Lather, Marion & Neubert, Christopher (eds.) Traffic: Media as Infrastructures and Cultural Practices, pp. 29–49. Leiden & London: Brill. (20 p.)
• Polizzi, Gianfranco (2023). Internet users’ utopian/dystopian imaginaries of society in the digital age: Theorizing critical digital literacy and civic engagement. New Media & Society, 25(6), pp. 1205–1226. (21 p.)
• Potter, James W. (2014). Guidelines for Media Literacy Interventions in the Digital Age. Medijska istraživanja: znanstveno-stručni časopis za novinarstvo i medije, 20(2), pp. 5–31. (26 p.)
• Rahm, Lina (2024). Bildung: An exploration of postdigital education in the Anthropocene. In Buch, Anders; Lindberg, Ylva & Cerratto Pargman, Teresa (eds.) Framing Futures in Postdigital Education: Critical Concepts for Data-driven Practices, pp. 119–137. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature. (19 p.)
• Stamboliev, Eugenia (2023). Proposing a Postcritical AI Literacy: Why We Should Worry Less about Algorithmic Transparency and More about Citizen Empowerment. Media Theory, 7(1), pp. 202–232. (30 p.)
• Tsz Kit Ng, Davy, Leung, Jac Ka Lok, Chu, Samuel Kai Wah & Qiao, Maggie Shen (2021). Conceptualizing AI literacy: An exploratory review. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 2, 100041. (15 p.)

Total amount of pages: ca 545