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Section 4: Texts

Core

  • Digital Access
    • “Ethics Defined,” Ethics Unwrapped, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin
    • “The Internet Doesn’t Need Civility, It Needs Ethics,” Ryan M. Milner and Whitney Phillips, Motherboard by Vice, November 20, 2018
    • “The Reason #BlackTwitter Exists (And Is Totally Awesome),” Say It Loud, PBS, YouTube, May 30, 2019
  • Unit Reader
    • Excerpt from “Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital,” Robert D. Putnam, National Endowment for Democracy and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995
    • “It Wasn’t Just the Trolls: Early Internet Culture, ‘Fun,’ and the Fires of Exclusionary Laughter,” Whitney Phillips, SAGE Publishing, 2019
    • “The End of Solitude,” William Deresiewicz, The Chronicle of Higher Education. Used with permission from the author., 2009