Weekly Reading (03/25/2018)
Selections from the Web:
- Kieran Healy: Making Slides
- Kira Lussier: From the Intuitive Human to the Intuitive Computer
- Osita Nwanevu: When “Free Speech” Is a Marketing Ploy
- Ralph Nader: Land of the Lawless
- Samuel Moyn: Hype for the Best: Why Does Steven Pinker Insist That Human Life Is on the Up?
- Sarah Jones: The Pinkertons Still Never Sleep
Cambridge Analytica:
- Heidi Tworek: Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and the New Old Fear of Manipulating the Masses
- Tamsin Shaw: The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops
- William Davies: Why the Outrage?
Books and Journal Articles:
Books:
- Evanthis Hatzivassiliou: The NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, 1969–1975: Transatlantic Relations, the Cold War and the Environment (2017)
Journal Articles and Chapters:
- Charles S. Meier: “‘Malaise’: The Crisis of Capitalism in the 1970s,” The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, (2010)
- David C. Engerman: “The Second World’s Third World,” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, (2011)
- Jessica Baldwin-Philippi: “The Myths of Data-Driven Campaigning,” Political Communication, (2017)
- John Gerard Ruggie: “What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge,” International Organization, (1998)