Social Media and Identity
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- Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-events in America. New York: Atheneum, 1987. Print. Turabian (6th ed.)
- Burr, Ty. Gods Like Us: on Movie Stardom and Modern Fame. New York: Pantheon, 2012.
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- Hall, Neil. ";The Kardashian Index: a Measure of Discrepant Social Media Profile for Scientists." Genome Biology 15, no. 7 (2014): 424.
- Hetsroni, Amir. Reality Television: Merging the Global and the Local. Hauppauge, N.Y: Nova Science Publisher's, Inc, 2011.
- Kim, Cheonsoo, and Jae Kook Lee. "Social Media Type Matters: Investigating the Relationship Between Motivation and Online Social Network Heterogeneity." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 60, no. 4 (November 17, 2016): 676-93.
- King, Elizabeth. "Vine is Dead." October 27, 2016. Complex. http://www.complex.com/life/2016/10/twitter-shutting-down-vine.
- Poletti, Anna, and Julie Rak. Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2013.
- Ryan, Kathleen M, and Deborah A Macey. Television and the Self: Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013.
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- Stefanone, Michael A, Derek Lackaff, and Devan Rosen. "The Relationship Between Traditional Mass Media and 'Social Media': Reality Television as a Model for Social Network Site Behavior." Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 54, no. 3 (August 17, 2010): 508-25.
- Stelter, Brian. "TV Industry Taps Twitter and Facebook for Viewers." New York Times. February 20, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/business/media/21watercooler.html.
- Summers, Ed. "Trump Tweet IDs." January 24, 2015. Archive.org https://archive.org/details/trump-tweet-ids.
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Pop Culture and Reality Television
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- Carron, Joel. "Data Wrangling Westworld." November 15, 2016. Mode Blog. https://blog.modeanalytics.com/data-mining-westworld/?utm_medium=microsite&utm_source=westworlddata.
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- Lott, Eric. Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class. New York:
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- Monbiot, George. "Celebirty isn't just harmless fun - it's the smiling face of the corporate machine." Decmeber 20, 2016. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/20/celebrity-corporate-machine-fame-big-business-donald-trump-kim-kardashian.
- Morris, Mitchell. The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2013.
- Poggi, Jeanine. "Coming Up Rosy: Inside the Business of 'The Bachelor'." October 12, 2015. Advertising Age. http://adage.com/article/media/business-bachelor/300852/.
- Schwab, Katharine. "The Rise of Buffy Studies." October 1, 2015. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/10/the-rise-of-buffy-studies/407020/?utm_source=atlfb.
- Shudson, Michael. "The New Validation of Popular Culture: Sense and Sentimentality in Academia." Critical Studies in Mass Communication vol. 4 (1987), 51-68.
- Spence, Lester K. Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
- Turner, Graeme. "Approaching Celebrity Studies." Celebrity Studies 1, no. 1 (March 18, 2010): 11-20.
- "Westworld in Data." Accessed on April 11, 2017. Mode Publice Warehous. http://www.westworlddata.com/.
- Zdenek, Sean. "Which Sounds are Significant? Towards a Rherotic of Closed Captioning." Disability Studies Quarterly. vol. 31, no 3 (2011).
The Kardashians
- Cowen, Trace William. "Kim Kardashian Finally Breaks Silence About Terrifying Paris Robbery." January 6, 2017. Complex. http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2017/01/kim-kardashian-breaks-silence-paris-robbery?utm_campaign=complexmag&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social.
- Bryant, Kenzi. "Kim Kardashian's Letter to Armenian Genocide Deniers Turned Into a Full Page New York Times Ad." Vanity Fair, September 19, 2016. http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/09/kim-kardashian-armenian-genocide-new-york-times-ad.
- Brodesser-Akner, Taffy. "Where Would the Kardashians Be Without Kris Jenner?." The New York Times, May 8, 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/magazine/where-would-the-kardashians-be-without-kris-jenner.html?_r=0.
- Fedorova, Anastasiia. "Kim Kardashian and the fashionistas: drop the hammer and sickle." January 13, 2017. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/13/kim-kardashian-and-the-fashionistas-drop-the-hammer-and-sickle.
- Kardashian, Kim. Selfish. New York: Rizzoli, 2016.
- Katz, Josh. "'Duck Dynasty' vs. 'Modern Family': 50 Maps of the U.S. Cultural Divide." The New York Times, December 27, 2016.
- Keats, Jonathon. "Famous for Being Indianapolis: How Cities Are Like Kim Kardashian." January 12, 2017. Nautilus. http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/famous-for-being-indianapolis-rp.
- Kohn, Sally. "How the Kardashians Exploit Racial Bias for Profit." November 18, 2014. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/11/18/the-kardashians-arent-just-trashy-theyre-dangerous/?utm_term=.117094ba2978.
- Kornhaber, Spencer. "Kanye West and Donald Trump's Celebrity Kinship." December 13, 2016. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/12/kanye-west-donald-trump-visit/510488/?utm_source=atltw.
- Leppert, Alice. "Momager of the Brides: Kris Jenner's Management of Kardashian Romance." in First Comes Loves: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinships, and Cultural Politics. ed. Shelley Cobb and Neil Ewen. (New York: Bloomsbury Academic) 2015: 132-177.
- Lueck, Jennifer Anette. "Friend-Zone with Benefits: the Parasocial Advertising of Kim Kardashian." Journal of Marketing Communications 21, no. 2 (March 11, 2015): 91-109.
- McClain, Amanda Scheiner. Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand: Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014.
- McCluskey, Megan. "People Are Freaking Out That the Kardashians Were Called 'America's First Family.'" Time, October 5, 2015. http://time.com/4061251/kardashians-americas-first-family/.
- Monbiot, George. "Celebrity Isn't Just Harmless Fun-It's the Smiling Face of the Corporate Machine." The Guardian, December 20, 2016. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/20/celebrity-corporate-machine-fame-big-business-donald-trump-kim-kardashian.
- Pramaggiore, Maria and Diane Negra. "Keeping Up with the Aspirations: Commercial Family Values and the Kardashian Brand." in Reality Gendervision: Sexuality & Gender on Reality Television. ed. Brenda R. Weber. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014): 76-95.
- Saltz, Jerry and David Wallace-Wells. "Jerry Saltz: How and Why We Started Taking Kim Kardashian Seriously (and What She Teaches Us About the State of Criticism)." Vulture, May 20, 2015. http://www.vulture.com/2015/05/saltz-how-kim-kardashian-became-important.html.
- Sastre, Alexandra. "Hottentot in the Age of Reality TV: Sexuality, Race, and Kim Kardashian 's Visible Body." Celebrity Studies 5, no. 1 (April 3, 2014): 123-37. doi:10.1080/19392397.2013.810838.
- Tempesta, Erica. "'North will get everything!' Kim Kardashian has already created an 'archive' of outfits for her daughter who will inherit her entire wardrobe." April 13, 2015. Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3037532/Kim-Kardashian-created-archive-outfits-one-year-old-daughter-inherit-entire-wardrobe.html.
- Vulpo, Mike. "Watch Kim Kardashian Address the Pitfalls of Social Media Before Her Paris Robbery." October 23, 2016. E!News. http://www.eonline.com/news/804052/watch-kim-kardashian-address-the-pitfalls-of-social-media-before-her-paris-robbery.
Digital Humanities and Design
- Battan, Carrie. "Mind Control." Accessed April 11, 2017. Pitchfork. http://pitchfork.com/features/cover-story/reader/janelle-monae/.
- Beck Grace, Andrew with Helios Design Labs. "After the Storm." Accessed April 11, 2017. The Washington Post. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/interactive/after-the-storm/#/dear-future-disaster-survivor.
- Coates, Ta-Nehisi. "The Case for Reparations." June 2014 Issue. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/#x-there-will-be-no-reparations-from-germany.
- Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. "Do 'The Risky Thing' in Digital Humanities." September 25, 2011. The Chronicle of Higher Education. http://www.chronicle.com/article/Do-the-Risky-Thing-in/129132/.
- "Hyphen-Nation." February 16, 2016. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/hyphen-nation?emc=edit_th_20170217&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=62134927.
- Self, Will. "Kafka's Wound." London Review of Books: 2012. http://thespace.lrb.co.uk/