Weekly Reading (04/29/2018)
Note: I was sick as hell last weekend, so I decided to double up and post two weeks together.
Selections from the Web:
Tech:
- Alex Press: Code Red: Organizing the Tech Sector
- Amanda Taub and Max Fisher: Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
- Dave Karpf: A World Without Wizards: On Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
- K. Sabeel Rahman: The New Octopus
- @libshipwreck: Techlash! What Techlash?
History:
- Anna Reser: Hiding in Plain Sight
- Blake Smith: Indian Literature Speaks French
- Patrick Iber: Worlds Apart
Class, Labor, and Education:
- Casey Williams: Georgia School Bus Drivers Join Labor Revolt in Public Education
- Laura Pappano: Low-Income Graduates of Elite Colleges Struggle With Class Issues
Politics:
- Alex Nichols: No Labels Is the Most Useless Force in American Politics
- Richard Kim: The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts
- Sarah Jones: “I Am Those People”
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Erving Goffmann: Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings (1963)
- H.W. Arndt: The Rise and Fall of Economic Growth: a Study in Contemporary Thought (1978) [reread]
- Kristen R. Ghodsee: From Notes to Narrative: Writing Ethnographies That Everyone Can Read (2016)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Walter A. Weisskopf: “Economic Growth Versus Existential Balance,” Ethics, (1965)
- William J. Fellner: “Rapid Growth as an Object of Economic Policy,” Papers and Proceedings of the Seventy-second Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, (1960)