Long Texts

1. Clive Thompson, "Public Thinking" (pdf)
   
   
2. Tufecki, “YouTube, the Great Radicalizer,” McNamee, “Google and Facebook Terrify me,” Golumbia’s 
   “Social Media Has Hijacked Our Brains and Threatens Global Democracy.” Word versions of these texts are also available. 
    
3. Danah Boyd, "Literacy: Are Today's Youth  Digital Natives?" (footnotes) (pdf)
   
   
4. Nicholas Carr, "Is Google making Us Stupid?" 

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)
• Todd May, "The Stories We Tell Ourselves"  
• Rockmore, “How Texas Teaches History” (web)
• Stephens-Davidowitz, “How Googling Unmasks Child Abuse”  (web)
• Hari, "The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think" (web)