Content Engineering Optional Additional Readings:

These readings are not required for class, but they pick up where some of our class discussions have left off. I've got them listed by topic:

Digitization and the Devaluation of Content:

• Bell, “What 2000 Job Cuts Tell Us”

• Guest, “'I can get any ebook I want in 30 seconds': Can Book Piracy Be Stopped?”

The “mass amaturization of filtering” and it's impact on content and culture:

• Crockett, “How the 'King of Fake News' built his empire”

• Munger, “Influence? In this Economy?”

The economics of music (and podcast) creation and distribution in an age of FARTS:

• Gerard, "Culture is not about Aesthetics. Punk rock is now enforced by law"

• Masnick, "No, The Internet Hasn't Destroyed Quality Music"

• Stratechery, “Spotify's Podcast Aggregation Play”

Privacy, or the lack thereof:

• The Privacy Project, at the New York Times. With resources including “What Can I Do?”

• The Privacy section of the EFF.

• The Guardian's excellent ongoing set of articles covering the convergence of privacy and tech.

• Melendez and Pasternack, “Here are the data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information”

• The full set of articles that the above comes from.

• Bogost, “Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism”

• Auletta, “How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men”

• Savov, “Google's Selfish Ledger is an Unsettling Vision of Silicon Valley Social Engineering”

Here Comes Everybody, and the “sharing economy”:

• Cagel, “The Sharing Economy was Always a Scam”

Content vs Piracy:

• Bode, “Studies Keep Showing that the Best Way to Stop Piracy is to Offer Cheaper, Better Alternatives”

What we Misread when we Treat People as Data:

• Firth-Godbehere, “Silicon Valley Thinks Everyone Feels the Same Six Emotions”

Black Hat SEO on Amazon's Recommendation Algorithm:

• Jeong, “Bad Romance”