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  1. Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes. by Shannon A. Riggs & Kathryn E. Linder open access :herb:
  2. Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark :herb:
  3. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick :herb:
  4. El oro de los sueños by José María Merino :herb:
  5. Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD by Jesse J. Anderson :herb:
  6. How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles :herb:
  7. Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. by Eric Hayot :herb:
  8. Infomocracy by Malka Older :herb:
  9. Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered. by Samuel Turner open access :herb:
  10. Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon :herb:
  11. Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Maurice S. Lee :herb:
  12. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts :herb:
  13. Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby & James M. Lang :herb:
  14. The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire. by Thomas Richards :herb:

All my reading notes, by year finished

2025
  1. :green_book: Humanist Reason: A History. An Argument. A Plan. by Eric Hayot :herb:

    As Hayot writes in the intro, this book “reclaims and redescribes the work of humanist thought [and…] scholarship as a form of reason [and…] truth-seeking”.

2024
  1. :green_book: Capital is Dead. Is This Something Worse? by McKenzie Wark :herb:

    Wark asks us to think about information less like Marxists and more like Marx.

  2. :green_book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick :herb:

    Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter searching for escaped androids in a radioactive Northern California where social status is measured by caring for live animals, as an indicator of empathy.

  3. :green_book: El oro de los sueños by José María Merino :herb:

    A edition of José María Merino’s book, adapted by Yolanda Pinto Gómez.

  4. :green_book: Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD by Jesse J. Anderson :herb:

    Anderson’s Extra Focus provides a truly ‘quick start’ guide to dealing with ADHD as an adult, with useful ways to reframe situations and find motivation.

  5. :green_book: How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles :herb:

    Hayles examines literary fiction and technological texts for her study of how information became conceived of as immaterial, of how the figure of the cyborg was invented in cultural and technological discourses, and how this cybernetic discourse altered the understanding of the liberal humanist subject.

  6. :green_book: Infomocracy by Malka Older :herb:

    Twenty years into a global experiment with micro-democracy, and Information workers (or antagonists) hope to protect this political experiment through the next world-wide election cycle.

  7. :page_facing_up: Juan Ponce de León and the Discovery of Florida Reconsidered. by Samuel Turner open access :herb:

    This article provides an up-to-date interpretation of primary and secondary accounts of Ponce de León’s travels to Florida.

  8. :green_book: Overwhelmed: Literature, Aesthetics, and the Nineteenth-Century Information Revolution by Maurice S. Lee :herb:

    Lee explores the history of how various cultural formations around literature and information grew through the 19th Century Information Revolution.

  9. :green_book: Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order by Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts :herb:

    Hall and cowriters provide a classic analysis of the rhetoric of a moral panic.

  10. :green_book: Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes by Flower Darby & James M. Lang :herb:

    Darby and Lang offer a wealth of small interventions one can make to improve the experiences of online learners and teachers. I definitely recommend this for anyone who teaches online.

2023
  1. :page_facing_up: Actively Engaging Students in Asynchronous Online Classes. by Shannon A. Riggs & Kathryn E. Linder open access :herb:

    Abstract: This paper suggests a three-pronged approach for conceptualizing active learning in the online asynchronous class: the creation of an architecture of engagement in the online classroom, the use of web-based tools in addition to the learning management system, and a re-imagining of discussion boards as interactive spaces.

  2. :green_book: Modernist Informatics: Literature, Information, and the State by James Purdon :herb:

    Purdon examines modernist fiction to trace how writers experienced information culture as a disturbing interruption and governmental intrusion.

  • :seedling: = emerging note
  • :herb: = established note
  • :evergreen_tree: = evergreen note
  • open access = open access
  • :closed_lock_with_key: = paywalled
  • general web link = general web link

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