CONVERGENCE: An Evolving List of Favorite MEDIA Articles

Here is an evolving list of "pop culture/media" articles I use with college students in my media classes. Not exhaustive, but perhaps useful for exploring the directions in which our 21st century media culture is going.

MEDIA, WISDOM AND THE BRAIN

PROJECT GLASS? "The Man With The Google Glasses." (NYT - April 2012)

AUGMENTED REALITY: Google's Project Glass - Fast Company (April 2012).

OUR BRAINS ON FICTION: New York Times - March 2012.

MEDIA DETOX. Eye Opening article on Media and the Brain.

Nicholas Carr, "The Remains of the Book." 2011; Blog Post.

David Carr, "Why Twitter Will Endure." NYTimes, 2010.

Jonathan Franzen. "Liking is For Cowards. Go For What Hurts." New York Times (May 2011).

Tony Kontzer. Wisdom 2.0. (May 2010)

Claudia Wallis, "TIME - The Multitasking Generation." (March 2006).

Peter, Bregman. "Why I Returned My iPad." (Summer 2010).

INTERNET/WEB 2.0/3.0, LEARNING, AND SOCIETY

Nicholas Carr, The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains. (WIRED; May 2010).

Nicholas Carr, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" (July/August 2008).

Jamais Cascio, Get Smarter (Why Google etc. Is Making Us More Intelligent). (July/August 2009)

TIME, "Person of the Year: YOU." (December 2006).

William Deresiewicz, "Facebook and Faux Friendship." (December 2009).

Steven Johnson, "How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live." (June 2009).

Tom Hodgkinson, "With Friends Like These (Why Facebook Is Dangerous)." (January 2008)

Steve Lohr, "How Privacy Vanishes Online." (March 2010).

Jeffrey Rosen, "Google's Gatekeepers." (November 2008)

Clive Thompson, "Brave New World of Digital Intimacy." (September 2008)

Elaine Young, "Teaching the Facebook Generation." (November 2009).

GLOBAL MEDIA

Ken Auletta, "The Networker: Afghanistan's First Media Mogul." (New Yorker; July 2010.)

BOOKS

Ken Auletta, "Publish or Perish - Can the iPad Topple the Kindle." (April 2010).

Steven Johnson, "How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write." (April 2009).

Michiko Kakutani, Texts Without Context: Reading and the Web. (March 2010).

Wade Roush, "Second Earth." (Summer 2007).

MAGAZINES

NEWSPAPERS

New York Times editors, "Battle Plans for Newspapers." (February 2009)

RADIO/SOUND RECORDING

TELEVISION

Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, "Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor." (January 2004)

Steve McClellan and Brian Morrissey, "The Future of TV." (November 2008).

Rachel Smolkin, "What The Mainstream Media Can Learn from Jon Stewart." (June/July 2007)

MOVIES

ADVERTISING AND CONVERGENCE

Bob Garfield, "Chaos Scenario 2.0 - The Post-Advertising Age." (March 2007)