Course:LIBR559A

Sociotechnical Perspectives of Information Systems
LIBR 559A
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Instructor:	Richard Arias-Hernandez
Email:	rarias@mail.ubc.ca
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IMPORTANT CHANGE TO STYLE GUIDE -- entries should be narrative form, not listed with headings. LIBR559A Style Guide -- take a look here! -Peter

We will use this space to post all annotated bibliographies, organized by topic. On the main page we will have an index of references organized by topic. Each reference will be a link to its corresponding annotated bibliography.

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New ICTs and Media

Social Media

• Boyd, d.m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship.

• Fuchs, C. (2014). Digital prosumption labour on social media in the context of the capitalist regime of time.

• Fuchs, C. (2014). Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?

• Gerlitz, C., & Helmond, A. (2013). The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web.

• Jeong, S. (2016). The history of Twitter’s rules.

• McPherson, M., Budge, K., & Lemon, N. (2015). New practices in doing academic development: Twitter as an informal learning space.

• Parra, D., Trattner, C., Gómez, D., Hurtado, M., Wen, X., & Lin, Y. R. (2016). Twitter in academic events: a study of temporal usage, communication, sentimental and topical patterns in 16 computer science conferences.

• Rice, E., & Barman-Adhikari, A. (2014), Internet and Social Media Use as a Resource for Homeless Youth

• Zajc, M. (2015). The Social Media Dispositive and Monetization of User-Generated Content.

Big Data

• Burkell, J. A. (2016). Remembering me: Big data, individual identity, and the psychological necessity of forgetting.

• Cockayne, D.G. (2016). Affect and value in critical examinations of the production and ‘prosumption’ of Big Data.

• Janssen, M., & Kuk, G. (2016). The challenges and limits of big data algorithms in technocratic governance. Government Information Quarterly, 33(3), 371-377. doi:10.1016/j.giq.2016.08.011

• Kosinski, M. (2013). Private traits and attributes are predictable from digital records of human behaviour.

• Mai, J. (2016). Big data privacy: The datafication of personal information.

• Pascalev, M. (2017;2016). Privacy exchanges: Restoring consent in privacy self-management.

• Sanders et. al. (2015), Constructing Crime in a Database

• Wei, G., Shao, J., Xiang, Y., Zhu, P., & Lu, R. (2015). Obtain confidentiality or/and authenticity in big data by ID-based generalized signcryption.

Traditional Media

• Gosden, C., & Marshall, Y. (1999, October). The Cultural Biography of Objects.

• Hunter, Dard. (1978). Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft.

• Howells, Richard and Negreiros, Joaquim. (2013). Visual Culture (2nd ed.)

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Issues

Censorship

• Anderson, J. (2016). Deceptive indoctrination: Censorship and the freedom to explore. Journal of Information Ethics, 25(2), 5-9.

• Asheim, L. (1953). Not censorship but selection.

• Grimemlmann, James. "The Google Dilemma". New York Law School Review 53.1 (2009): 939-950. Print.

• Zittrain, Jonathan, & John Palfrey. (2008). Internet Filtering: The Politics and Mechanisms of Control.

Privacy

• Boyd, D. (2012). The politics of "real names": Power, context, and control in networked publics. Communications of the ACM, 55(8), 29-31 (Danielle Foulger)

• Boyd, D. (2012). The politics of "real names": Power, context, and control in networked publics. Communications of the ACM, 55(8). 29-31 (Aleks Migorska)

• Buschman, J. (2016). The structural irrelevance of privacy: A provocation. Library Quarterly, 86, 419-433.

• Child, J.T. & Starcher, S.C. (2016). Fuzzy Facebook privacy boundaries: Exploring mediated lurking, vague-booking, and Facebook privacy management. Computers in Human Behavior, 54. 483-490.

• Elhai, J. D., Levine, J. C., & Hall, B. J. (2017). Anxiety about electronic data hacking.

• Maas, D. (2013, October 29). Online Anonymity is Not Only for Trolls and Political Dissidents. Electronic Frontier Foundation. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/online-anonymity-not-only-trolls-and-political-dissidents

• Mizutani, M., Dorsey, J., & Moor, J.H. (2004). The internet and Japanese conception of privacy. Ethics and Information Technology, 6. 121-128.

• Palen, L., & Dourish, P. (2003). Unpacking “privacy” for a networked world. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems,129-136. doi: 10.1145/642611.642635

• Pascalev, M. (2017;2016). Privacy exchanges: Restoring consent in privacy self-management.

Surveillance

• Apthorpe, N., Reisman, D., & Feamster, N. (2017). A smart home is no castle: Privacy vulnerabilities of encrypted IoT traffic.

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Commonism and Collaboration

Digital Commons

• Balázs Bodó, “Pirates in the Library – An Inquiry into the Guerilla Open Access Movement” (8th Annual Workshop of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property, Glasgow, UK: Social Science Research Network, 2016).

• Fish, A. (2014). The place of ‘culture’ in the Access to Knowledge movement. Anthropology Today 30(5), 7-10.

• Fuchs, C. (2010). Labor in Informational Capitalism and on the Internet. The Information Society 26, 179-196.

• Sims, N. (2017). Rights, ethics, accuracy, and open licenses in online collections. College & Research Library News, 78(2), 79–78. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.78.2.9620

Collaboration

• Borromeo, R. M. & Toyama, M. (2016). An investigation of unpaid crowdsourcing.

• Gassenheimer, J. B., Siguaw, J. A. & Hunter, G. L. (2013). Exploring motivations and the capacity for business crowdsourcing

Online Communities

• Bernstein, M. S., (2011). 4chan and /b/: An analysis of anonymity and ephemerality in a large online community.

• Hamilton, W., Garretson, O., & Kerne, A. (2014). Streaming on twitch: Fostering participatory communities of play within live mixed media.

• Recktenwald, D. (2017). Toward a transcription and analysis of live streaming on twitch.

• Rhodes, T. (2014). A living, breathing revolution: How libraries can use ‘living archives’ to support, engage, and document social movements.

• Thomas, D. & Underwood, P. G. (2015). The use of the intranet of the Durban University of Technology Library as a knowledge management tool

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Access

• Fidel, R. (2012). Five search strategies. Human Information Interaction: An Ecological Approach to Information Behavior (pp. 97-118). MIT Press.

Accessibility

Disabilities (General)

• Ellcessor, E. (2010). Bridging disability divides: A critical history of web content accessibility through 2001.

• Epp, M. A. (2006). Closing the 95 percent gap: Library resource sharing for people with print disabilities.

• Hara, K., Le, V., & Froehlich, J. (2013). Combining Crowdsourcing and Google Street View to Identify Street-level Accessibility Problems. College Park: Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Computer Science Department, University Of Maryland., 631-640.

• Leong, I.C.B. & Higgins, S.E. (2010), Public Library Services for Wheelchair Bound Youth

• Oud, J. (2012). How well do Ontario library web sites meet new accessibility requirements? Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 7(1), 1-17
• Marchlewska, A., Goetzen, P., & Marchlewska, A. (2014). The Role of Information Technology for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Journal of Applied Computer Science Methods,6(1). doi:10.2478/jacsm-2014-0006

Visual Disabilities

• Childres, D. J. (2007). Improving the accessibility of web sites for visually impaired individuals.

• Eggett, C. (2002). Assistive technology needs in public libraries: a survey.

• Epp, M. A. (2006). Closing the 95 percent gap: Library resource sharing for people with print disabilities.

• Krueger, K., & Stefanich, G. (2011). The School Librarian as an agent of scientific inquiry for students with disabilities.

• Jonathan Lazar , Aaron Allen , Jason Kleinman & Chris Malarkey (2007) 'What Frustrates Screen Reader Users on the Web: A Study of 100 Blind Users

• Lazar, J., Feng, J., & Allen, A. (2006). Determining the impact of computer frustration on the mood of blind users browsing the web.

• Power, R., & LeBeau, C. (2009). How well do academic library web sites address the needs of database users with visual disabilities?

• Tripathi, M., & Shukla, A. (2014). Use of Assistive Technologies in Academic Libraries: A Survey.

• World International Property Organization. (2013). Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled.

• Yoon, K., Newberry, T., Hulscher, L., & Dols, R. (2013). Call for library websites with a separate information architecture for visually impaired users.

Learning Disabilities

• Lacey, P., & Smith, P. (2010). Inclusive libraries. Journal of Assistive Technologies, 4(2), 44-48.

• Course:LIBR559A/Wu, T., Chen, M., Yeh, Y., Wang, H., & Chang, S. C. (2014). Is digital divide an issue for students with learning disabilities? Computers in Human Behavior,39, 112-117. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2014.06.024

Marginalization and Digital Divide

• Baker, P., & Potts, A. (2013). ‘Why do white people have thin lips?’ Google and the perpetuation of stereotypes via auto-complete search forms. Critical Discourse Studies, 10(2), 187-204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405904.2012.744320

• Borrino, R., Furini, M., & Roccetti, M. (2009). Augmenting Social Media Accessibility (pp. 54-57). Madrid: W4A '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibililty (W4A).

• Bredin , M. (2001). Bridging Canada's Digital Divide: First Nations' Access to New Information Technologies . The Canadian Journal of Native Studies , 2, 191-215. Retrieved June 6, 2017.

• Gómez-Hernández, J. j., Hernández-Pedreño, M. m., & Romero-Sánchez, E. e. (2017). Social and digital empowerment of vulnerable library users of the murcia regional library, Spain.

• Idiegbeyan-ose, J., Nkiko, C., Idahosa, M., & Nwokocha, N. (2016). Digital divide: Issues and strategies for intervention in Nigerian libraries. Journal of Cases on Information Technology, 18(3), 29.

• McMahon, R. , O'Donnell, S. , Smith, R. , Walmark, B. , Beaton, B. , Simmonds, J. (2011). Digital Divides and the 'First Mile': Framing First Nations Broadband Development in Canada. The International Indigenous Policy Journal, 2(2) . Retrieved from: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol2/iss2/2

• Namazi, K.H. & McClintic, M.(2003), Computer Use Among the Elderly

• Nemer, D., & Tsikerdekis, M. (2017). Political engagement and ICTs: Internet use in marginalized communities

• Nikolov, D., Oliveira, D., Flammini, A., & Menczer, F. (2015). Measuring online social bubbles. Peerj Computer Science, 1, e38. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.38

• Norris, P. (2001). Digital Divide : Civic engagement, information poverty, and the Internet in democratic societies. New York: Cambridge University Press.

• Rahmi, R. & Lo, P.(2015), At-risk youth empowerment through the use of libraries

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Design

Design and Society

• Aleinikoff, T. A., & Klusmeyer, D. (2001). Plural Nationality: Facing the Future in a Migratory World. In T. A. Aleinikoff, & D. Klusmeyer, Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices (pp. 63-88). Washington D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

• Anderson, B., Gale, C., Gower, A. P., France, E. F., Jones, M., Lacohee, H. V., Trimby, M. (2002). Digital Living: People-Centered Innovation and Strategy.

• Barab, S. A., Thomas, M. K., Dodge, T., Squire, K., & Newell, M. (2004). Critical Design Ethnography: Designing for Change. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 35(2), 254-268.

• Chandler, J. (2012). Obligatory technologies.

• Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2013). Design as Critique.

• Hampton, K., The social life of wireless urban spaces: Internet use, social networks, and the public realm.

• Mumford (1986), Technology and Culture: Technics and Human Development

• Navarick, D. J. (2013). Moral Ambivalence: Modeling and Measuring Bivariate Evaluative Processes in Moral Judgment. Review of General Psychology, 17(4), 443-452. doi:10.1037/a0034527

• Nieusma, D. (2004). Alternative Design Scholarship: Working Toward Appropriate Design. Design Issues, 20(3), 13-24.

• Rafael, E. (2013). Technology as a social system: A systems theoretical conceptualization.

• Verbeek, P. (2006). ACTING ARTIFACTS: The technological mediation of action. In P.P. Verbeek and A. Slob (Eds.), User Behavior and Technology Development: Shaping Sustainable Relations Between Consumers and Technologies (pp. 53–60).

Web Design

• Aberg, J., & Shahmehri, N. (2001, March). An empirical study of human Web assistants: Implications for user support in Web information systems.

UX Design

• Schmidt, A., & Etches, A. (2012). User experience (UX) design for libraries.

• Shen, H., & Coughlan, J. (2012). Towards a real-time system for finding and reading signs for visually impaired users.

• Zaugg, H. & Rackham, S. (2016). Identification and development of patron personas for an academic library.

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Health

Health, Technology, and Identity

• Blume, S. (2013) Medical Innovations: Their Diffusion, Adoption, and Critical Interrogation.

• Haas, M., Ashton, T., Blum, K., Christiansen, T., Conis, E., Crivelli, L., ... & Schlette, S. (2009). Drugs, sex, money and power: an HPV vaccine case study

• Lakoff, A. (2004). The anxieties of globalization: antidepressant sales and economic crisis in Argentina

• Salicetia, F. (2015). Internet addiction disorder (IAD).

• Sanders, R. (2017). Self-tracking in the digital era: Biopower, patriarchy, and the new biometric body project.

• Spielmans, G. I., & Parry, P. I. (2010). From evidence-based medicine to marketing-based medicine: evidence from internal industry documents

• Vassy, C. (2006). From a genetic innovation to mass health programmes

• Whitley, E. A. (2001). Studying the translations of NHSnet.

Health Education

• Albury, K. (2013). Young people, media and sexual learning: Rethinking representation.

• Johnston, J. (2017). Subscribing to sex edutainment: Sex education, online video, and the YouTube star

• McInnes, D. K., Li, A. E., & Hogan, T. P. (2013). Opportunities for Engaging Low-Income, Vulnerable Populations in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Homeless Persons’ Access to and Use of Information Technologies. American Journal of Public Health, 103(S2), e11–e24.

• Stennett, C. R., Weissenborn, M. R., Fisher, G. D., & Cook, R. L. (2011). Identifying an effective way to communicate with homeless populations. The Royal Society of Public Health, 126, 54–56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2011.09.020

• Thomas, A. (2014). Applications of social constructivist learning theories in knowledge translation for healthcare professionals: A scoping review.

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Education

Education, Technology

• Brigg, M. (2016). Engaging Indigenous Knowledges: From Sovereign to Relational Knowers. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 45(2), 152-158. doi:10.1017/jie2016.5.

• Ciampa, K. (2012). Electronic storybooks: A constructivist approach to improving reading motivation in grade 1 students.

• Jones, A., & Bissell, C. (2011). The social construction of educational technology through the use of authentic software tools. Research in Learning Technology, 19(3), 285-297.

• Jung, I., & Lee, Y. (2015). YouTube acceptance by university educators and students: A cross-cultural perspective.

• Smith, D. K. (2014). itube, youtube, wetube: Social media videos in chemistry education and outreach.

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Social Perspectives

• Johnson, C. (2005). Narratives of identity: Denying empathy in conservative discourses on race, class, and sexuality. Theory and Society, 34(1), 37-61. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/4501713

• Landström, C. (2007).Queering feminist technology studies.

• Noble, S. U., Austin, J., Sweeney, M. E., McKeever, L., & Sullivan, E. (2014). Changing course: collaborative reflections of teaching/taking "Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Information Professions". Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 55(3), 212-222.

• Scott, J & Hogg, R. (2015), Social Construction of Rural communities and crime

• Vardy, M., & Smith, M. (2017). Resilience. Environmental Humanities, 9(1), 175-179. doi:10.1215/22011919-382919

Feminism

• Haas, M., Ashton, T., Blum, K., Christiansen, T., Conis, E., Crivelli, L., ... & Schlette, S. (2009). Drugs, sex, money and power: an HPV vaccine case study.

• Jones, H.A. (2016). New Media Producing New Labor: Pinterest, Yearning, and Self-surveillance.

• Reimer-Kirkham, S. (2009). Critical inquiry and knowledge translation: Exploring compatibilities and tensions.

Queer

• Butler, J. (1993). Imitation and gender insubordination.

GLAMs

Libraries

• Becker, Samantha, Michael D. Crandall, Karen E. Fisher, Rebecca, Blakewood, Bo Kinney, and Cadi Russell-Sauvé. (2011). Opportunity for All: How Library Policies and Practices Impact Public Internet Access (IMLS-2011-RES-01).

• Carr, P. L. (2014). Five laws and SCOT

• Forcier, E., Rathi, D. & Given, L. M. (2013). Social media and knowledge management in libraries

• Galvan, A. (2015). Soliciting Performance, Hiding Bias: Whiteness and Librarianship. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Retrieved June 1, 2017, from http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/soliciting-performance-hiding-bias-whiteness-and-librarianship/

• Hansen, K., Nowlan, G. & Winter, C. (2012). Pinterest and academic libraries

• Manjarrez, C. A., & Schoembs, K. (2011). Who’s in the Queue? A Demographic Analysis of Public Access Computer Users and Uses in U.S. Public Libraries

• Schmidt, A., & Etches, A. (2012). User experience (UX) design for libraries (Vol. 18)

• Yeh, S.-T., & Walter, Z. (2016, November). Determinants of Service Innovation in Academic Libraries through the Lens of Disruptive Innovation. College and Research Libraries, 795-804. doi:10.5860/crl.77.6.795

Museums

• Cameron, F. (2001). World of Museums: Wired Connections - The Next Generation.

• Cameron, F. (2005). Contentiousness and shifting knowledge paradigms: The roles of history and science museums in contemporary societies. Museum Management and Curatorship, 20, 213-233.

• Prentice, R. (2001). Experiential Cultural Tourism: Museums & the Marketing of the New Romanticism of Evoked Authenticity.

• Sandell, R. (1998). Museums as Agents of Social Inclusion.

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