Class schedule (subject to change)
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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. |
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Jan. 24 | Communication theory review, contexts; |
The Net (part 2) Carey; Reardon & Rogers ( handouts) Klotz, Chapter 1; Wood & Smith Chapter 2; Lievrouw & Livingstone Intro (updated), chapters 9, 12. |
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Jan. 31 | Individual use of Net/New media; our survey results | Turkle, Rainie (reading packet) Klotz, chapters 2, 3, 4 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). |
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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 Wood and Smith Chapter 6 The WebRing Lievrouw & Livingstone, chapters 2 (skim) and 4 Add Barlow (Readings packet p. 1) Video on cyberactivism for the Berkman Center (fourth one down) 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) |
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Feb. 14 | Snow Day | Shovels, hot chocolate ... |
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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) Four Eyed Monsters (Net Neutrality)
WebRing paper due. |
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Feb. 28 | Legal issues, security, privacy; 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) |
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Mar. 7 | Spring Break | ![]() |
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Mar. 14 | Business, markets
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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) |
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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) |
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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 Lievrouw & Livingstone Chapter 3 Scott et al. (Readings packet p. 56) Thurlow et al. (Readings packet p. 70) |
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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) Her book site Stefanec 2 (Readings packet p. 64) twitter (What are you doing?) Will (Readings packet p. 95) |
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Apr. 11 |
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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 ...):
Survey on the Future of the Internet from PEW (full version of what was handed out) Video: The Net at Risk (Bill Moyers PBS) |
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Apr. 18 | Presentations: The final schedule |
Peter, Mike, Mark Paul, Joe, Alexis Nick, Chris |
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Apr. 25 | Presentations | JoAnna, Andrew, Tom Kate, Jen, Max Adam, Drew |
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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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