Class schedule (subject to change)

 

Dates
Topics
Resources
Jan. 17 Introductions, The Internet, Internet Survey; The Net (film)

Timeline http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

Pioneers http://www.ibiblio.org/team/history/pioneers/pioneers.html

Pie Chart http://www.ibiblio.org/team/intro/map/index.html

Also we saw the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium), and the first part of The Net.

 
Jan. 24

Communication theory review, contexts;
Net/new media history

The Net (part 2)

Carey; Reardon & Rogers ( handouts)
One site for mass communication theory review

Klotz, Chapter 1; Wood & Smith Chapter 2;
The Internet Archive (Wayback Machine)

Lievrouw & Livingstone Intro (updated), chapters 9, 12.

Jan. 31 Individual use of Net/New media; our survey results

Turkle, Rainie (reading packet)

Klotz, chapters 2, 3, 4

Digital Divide Network

Andrew's digital divide article

The E-Rate program

(One question per reading for everyone e-mailed by Wednesday noon) Also The Net paper due (2-3 pages).

Feb. 7

Group use (political, community)

Next short paper: Analyze a Web Ring using the questions posed by Wood and Smith (q. 4 p. 141), and adding other perspectives from that chapter and other readings this week. As before 2-3 pages. Due Feb. 21.

Klotz, chapter 6, 8

Compare Opensecrets.org with Townhall.com and MoveOn.org . Is Slate "non-traditional'?

Association for Community Networking

Wireless Philadelphia

Wood and Smith Chapter 6

The WebRing

Lievrouw & Livingstone, chapters 2 (skim) and 4

OURMedia

Add Barlow (Readings packet p. 1)

Video on cyberactivism for the Berkman Center (fourth one down)

BoingBoing.net

Scatterchat.com

Torrify.com

Again, one question per reading for everyone e-mailed by Wednesday noon. Presenters don't send questions, but need to include at least one Web link and send me that)

Feb. 14 Snow Day

Shovels, hot chocolate ...

Feb. 21 Politics, digital divide, war, globalism

Klotz, chapter 13, 14

Wood & Smith Chapter 9

Sam Walton is the Anti-Christ!

Lievrouw & Livingstone Chapter 21

Van Buren (Readings packet p. 85)

Stormfront

Newgrounds

MartinLutherKing.org

Tolerance.org

Four Eyed Monsters (Net Neutrality)

 

WebRing paper due.

Feb. 28

Legal issues, security, privacy;
Term paper topics, research

First stage of research paper is here.

Lievrouw & Livingstone Chapter 16

Klotz, chapters 9, 10, 11, 12

The Drudge report

Digital Freedom Network (ch. 10)

ICANN (ch. 11; read the About ICANN page)

What Network Solutions (Not NSI) is now

A site about the ACCPA

Video: "Not as private as you think" (CBS) (20 minutes)

Mar. 7 Spring Break
Mar. 14

Business, markets

 

Wood & Smith Chapter 7

AT Kearney (global marketer)

Lievrouw & Livingstone chapters 14, 17

Madden and Fox (Readings packet p. 28)

Berkman video on "Organizational Democracy"

Research paper Stage 1 due (area, topic, 3 annotated sources)

Mar. 21

CMC, self, identity

Take another look at the first stage of the research paper if needed

Wood & Smith chapters 1, 3

McSpotlight.org (comparative obscurity)

Lievrouw & Livingstone Chapter 1

boyd #2 (Identity production, Readings packet p. 8)

Phillips et al. (Readings packet p. 42)

The Journal of CMC (online)

Mar. 28 Interpersonal comm, relationships, flaming;
Schedule for presentations

Wood & Smith, chapters 4 and 5

netaddiction.com (check video, blog)

The Greenpeace Apple shadow site

HelpHorizons.com

Lievrouw & Livingstone Chapter 3

Scott et al. (Readings packet p. 56)

Thurlow et al. (Readings packet p. 70)

Apr. 4

Presentation on the Net (blogs, MySpace, YouTube, Facebook etc.); Social networking;

Second (final) note on the research paper

boyd #1 (Readings packet p. 3)

"Face value" (Readings packet p. 15)

Lenhart & Madden (Readings packet p. 18)

McGrath (Readings packet p. 34)

Little Loca on YouTube

Stefanec 1 (Readings packet p. 59)

Technorati.com

Her book site

Stefanec 2 (Readings packet p. 64)

twitter (What are you doing?)

Will (Readings packet p. 95)

del.icio.us

Apr. 11

Pop culture, future of the Web, Web 2.0

Web 2.0 from YouTube and a list from the Web2.0 Search Engine and their short video

Web 3.0 (joking) from Zeldman

Wood & Smith, Chapter 10

Gleick's Faster! book

Kurtz (Reading packet p. 16)

Handouts: (Be not afraid ...):

  1. Fox, Anderson & Rainie; Future of the Internet (PEW)
  2. Bainbridge; Future of the Internet (mainly last part)
  3. Wired packet (5 trends plus William Gibson)
  4. The Economist on advertising, Web 2.0, Viacom vs. YouTube
  5. Allentown Morning Call on Lonelygirl15, new Wikipedia
  6. Yahoo! News on Second Life

Survey on the Future of the Internet from PEW (full version of what was handed out)

digg.com

Video: The Net at Risk (Bill Moyers PBS)

Apr. 18

Presentations:

The final schedule

Peter, Mike, Mark
Paul, Joe, Alexis
Nick, Chris
Apr. 25 Presentations JoAnna, Andrew, Tom
Kate, Jen, Max
Adam, Drew
May 2 Final papers due Wednesday, May 2 at noon in my office (Olney 157) or before that in my mailbox in the English department Olney 141.

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