Platforms and Web Cultures 🕸

Class Activities

• Read Melanie Walsh and Maria Antoniak “The Goodreads “Classics”: A Computational Study of Readers, Amazon, and Crowdsourced Amateur Criticism” Post 45 April 21 2021 https://post45.org/2021/04/the-goodreads-classics-a-computational-study-of-readers-amazon-and-crowdsourced-amateur-criticism/ and explore data visualizations in https://melaniewalsh.github.io/Goodreads-Classics/
• Review Advanced Python and Github concepts

Additional Materials

How Amazon is Changing the Books We Read w/ Mark McGurl Tech Won’t Save Us https://www.buzzsprout.com/1004689/9529034-how-amazon-is-changing-the-books-we-read-w-mark-mcgurl