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Further Readings
Jin, D. Y. (2017). Smartland Korea: Mobile communication, culture, and society. Lansing, MI: University of Michigan Press.
This book examines the mobile landscape in the context of South Korea, with an in-depth look at the youth culture that emerges around the use of devices and applications.
Marwick, A. E. (2015). Instafame: Luxury selfies in the attention economy. Public Culture, 27(1, 75), 137–160.
This article explores the new attention economy around selfie taking and sharing in the context of celebrity life.
McLuhan, M. (1962). The Gutenberg galaxy: The making of typographic man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
A comprehensive analysis of the complex interplay of communication technology, cognition, and society.
Saltz, J. S., & Stanton, J. M. (2018). An introduction to data science. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
This book uses a wide range of practical examples to introduce the core ideas of data science to general readers.
Recommended Websites
Amazon’s Warehouses
You can schedule a tour of Amazon’s high-tech warehouses, including in Brampton, Ontario,and learn about its operations including how Kiva works.
Marshall McLuhan: The Man and His Message. CBC Digital Archives
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has put together a digital archive of McLuhan’s interviews with the media, including radio and television programming.
MIT’s six-minute video on Diderot’s Encyclopédie
http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/5141-mind-and-hand-mens-et-manus-illustrated-in-diderotsencyclopdie
An interesting video put together by MIT of the development of Diderot’s Encyclopédie and its implications for science and technology.
Selfie City
An interesting video put together by MIT of the development of Diderot’s This website showcases and investigates the style of self-portraits (selfies) in five cities across the world.