Week 14 Lecture - Memes, Misinformation, and Information Literacy

Lisa Yan, November 26th, 2024

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Phillips and Milner. _You Are Here_: Chapter 3. 2021.
• Required [Ed post] Tanksley. When Black Death Goes Viral: How Algorithms of Oppression (Re)Produce Racism and Racial Trauma. 2023.
• Optional [Ed post] Phillips and Milner. _You Are Here_: Introduction. 2021.
• Optional [Ed post] Phillips and Milner. _You Are Here_: Chapter 4. 2021.

CS H195 Readings

• Required [Ed post] Kolhatkar. Lina Khan’s Battle to Rein in Big Tech. The New Yorker. 2021.
• Required [Ed post] Hussain. Prop. 22: California gig companies, workers get their day in appeals court. The Los Angeles Times. 2022.
• Required [Ed post] Giblin and Doctorow. Chokepoint Capitalism: Chapter 2. 2022.
• Optional [Ed post] Tiera Tanksley. Education, Representation and Resistance: Black Girls in Popular Instagram Memes. 2016.