To be filed under "The exact moment that modern digital information saturation manifested", along with Crash: Nostalgia For The Absence Of Cyberspace and Marianne Trench's 1990 documentary Cyberpunk.I've developed a bit of a fascination with this particular techno-historical moment and the theory surrounding its advent, as this is what set up pretty much everything we've been living through since. Considering that I'm writing from the midst of an election cycle being advanced via tweets and infl [...]

Definitely suffers from uneven quality and is a bit dated. However, there are three pieces in here that really stand out to me:"Hacking Away at the Counterculture" compares computer virus terminology with AIDS virus in interesting ways, examines cultural depictions of hackers as the good guys looking out for human freedoms, vs. political and academic responses to hackers (as terrorists etc). As an artifact of the late 80s and early 90s, this piece is especially interesting."Understanding Mega Ev [...]

Kind of outdated (its like 10 years old) to be used in a course imho.