books

I recommend.

  • Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People | Helen Zia | 2000

  • The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | 2006

  • Stories of Your Life and Others | Ted Chiang | 2010

  • Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage | Haruki Murakami | 2014 (English translation)

  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate | Naomi Klein | 2014

  • Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates | 2015

  • The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2015

  • Green Island | Shawna Yang Ryan | 2016

  • How Long ‘til Black Future Month? | N.K. Jemisin | 2018

  • Atomic Habits | James Clear | 2018

  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present | David Treuer | 2019

  • How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | 2019

I want to read.

  • Imagined Communities | Benedict Anderson | 1983

  • The Social Meaning of Money | Viviana A. Zelizer | 1994

  • Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture | Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, & Joshua Green | 2013

  • Split Screen Korea: Shin Sang-Ok and Postwar Cinema | Steven Chung | 2014

  • The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America | Richard Rothstein | 2017

  • Society and Economy: Framework and Principles | Mark Granovetter | 2017

  • Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age | Matthew J. Salganik | 2018

I am reading.

  • The Round House | Louise Erdrich | 2012

I recently finished reading.

  • The Vanishing Half | Brit Bennett | 2020

  • Circe | Madeline Miller | 2020

  • The Refugees | Viet Thanh Nguyen | 2017

  • Orange World and Other Stories | Karen Russell | 2019

  • The Library Book | Susan Orlean | 2018

  • Free Food for Millionaires | Min Jin Lee | 2007

  • The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win | Maria Konnikova | 2020

  • Interior Chinatown | Charles Yu | 2020

articles

I recommend.

  • Merton, Robert K. 1938. “Social Structure and Anomie.“ American Sociological Review 3 (5): 672-682.

  • Granovetter, Mark. 1978. “Threshold Models of Collective Behavior.” The American Journal of Sociology 83 (6): 1420-1443.

  • Nichols, Bill. 1988. “The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems.” In The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, 627-641. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

  • Sunstein, Cass R. 1996. “Social Norms and Social Roles.” Columbia Law Review 96 (4): 903-968.

  • Marwick, Alice E., and danah boyd. 2011. “I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately: Twitter Users, Context Collapse, and the Imagined Audience.” New Media & Society 13 (1): 114-33.