RWS Course Reader

• The RWS100 Digital Course Reader

Short Texts

• Rifkin, "A Change of Heart About Animals" (pdf)
• Kristof, "Do We Have the Courage to Stop This?" (web) and "Some Inconvenient Gun Facts for Liberals" (web) 
• Parry, "The Art of Branding a Condition" (pdf)
• Stephens-Davidowitz, “How Googling Unmasks Child Abuse”  (web)
• Rockmore, “How Texas Teaches History” (web)
• Hari, "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think" (web)

Main Texts

1. Clive Thompson, "Public Thinking" (pdf)
    
2. Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (pdf) and the original online Atlantic article  Is Google Making Us Stupid (can use hypothes.is to see and create annotations) 
    
3.  Danah Boyd, "Literacy: Are Today's Youth  Digital Natives?" (footnotes) (pdf)