Wed. 1/23 Introduction

• Introductory Lecture

Mon. 1/28 Imagining Cyberspace: myths, metaphors, and stories [CULTURAL STUDIES, ETHNOGRAPHY]

• David Bell, "Storying Cyberspace: material and symbolic stories" Course Reader
• David Bell, "Researching Cybercultures" from An Introduction to Cyberculture (ONLINE)
  

Sections 1/28

• Introduction – Analog Media, Digital Media; Discuss Practicum Project

Wed. 1/30 Interface as representation

• Steven Johnson, "Bitmapping" and "Desktop" CR

Mon. 2/4 Analyzing representations [TEXTUAL ANALYSIS, CULTURAL STUDIES]

• Ted Friedman, "Apple's 1984" CR
• Lisa Nakamura, “The Multiplication of Difference in Post-Millennial Cyberpunk Film: The Visual Culture of Race in the Matrix Trilogy”,126-137 CR

Required Session: WIKI Introduction Classes will be held this week (2/4-2/8). See online syllabus for dates, times, and locations. You will sign up in section to attend one class.  Attendance is required. See dates and times

Sections 2/4

• Analyzing representations of the Internet; Finalize Practicum Assignments

Wed. 2/6 Technological Determinism

• Introduction and Chap 1 "Web of Technology", 1-22 WT
• Martin Lister, et. al. "New Media and New Technologies" CR

Mon. 2/11 ARPANET and origins of the Internet [HISTORICAL]

• Janet Abbate, "Introduction" and "Cold War and White Heat: The Origins and Meanings of Packet Switching" CR
• "Information and Networks", 23-24; 35-44 WT

Sections 2/11

• Social shaping of technology perspective: packet switching and ARPANET

Wed. 2/13 Emergence of the WWW

• "Communication", 45-47; 57-60 WT
• Tim Berners-Lee, "Enquire Within Upon Everything" and "Tangles, Links, and Webs" CR
• **QUIZ #1 in lecture

Mon. 2/18 Virtual communities [ETHNOGRAPHY]

• Nessim Watson, "Why We Argue about Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.net Fan Community" CR
• Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”  ONLINE

Sections 2/18

• Discuss virtual communities

• Chapter 4 "Identity" pp. 61-80 Web Theory
• Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace" Course Reader

Mon. 2/25 blogging vs journalism

• Cass Sunstein,"The Daily We" (ONLINE) Boston Review, 2000.
• Henry Jenkins, "Challenging the Consensus" (ONLINE) Boston Review, 2000.
• Jay Rosen, "Bloggers vs. Journalists is Over" PressThink (blog) posted 1/21/05 (ONLINE)

Sections 2/25

• PRESENTATIONS: Virtual Communities group

Wed. 2/27 From Public Sphere to Commercial Sphere? [POLITICAL ECONOMY]

• McChesney, "So Much for the Magic of Technology and the Free Market" Course Reader
• "NBC Making a Clean Start in a House of Mixed Media" NY Times (ONLINE)

Mon. 3/3 Political Campaigns and Activism

• Tom Streeter, et al.: “Introduction: Redefining the Possible” and “How the Internet Taught Me That You Have the Power”, CR
• Oliver Froehling, “Internauts and Guerrilleros – The Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico and its Extension into Cyberspace, 164-177 CR

Sections 3/3

• Democracy, the Press, and the Transformation of News Journalism

Wed. 3/5 Users, Non-users, and the digital divide

• Sally Wyatt, "How Non-Users Also Matter" CR
• Livingstone, Sonia, “Critical Debates in Internet Studies: Reflections on an Emerging Field” CR

Mon. 3/10 Network Neutrality regulation

• "The Web of Policy, Regulation, and Copyright" pp. 126 - 136 Web Theory

Short news articles about the network neutrality debate:

• "No Tolls on the Internet." Lawrence Lessig and Robert McChesney, Washington Post (ONLINE)
• "Why Net Neutrality Means More Federal Regulation" Jim DeMint, CNet News (ONLINE)
  
• "Network Neutrality: Far From A Done Deal" Wade Roush, Technology Review (ONLINE)

Sections 3/10

• Midterm Review

Wed. 3/12

• **MIDTERM EXAM in lecture

Spring Break March 17 - 21

Mon. 3/24 Dot.com boom and bust

• John Cassidy, "Prologue" and "Irrational Exuberance" CR
• "Web Economy", 105-113 WT

Sections 3/24

• PRESENTATIONS: Internet Users and Audiences Group

Wed. 3/26 new media labor

• Andrew Ross, “Dot.com Urbanism”  CR
• Michael Indergaard, "New Media People" CR

Mon. 3/31 Semiotics and Digital art

• Lev Manovich, "The Interface," The Language of New Media CR
• Alexander Galloway, “Internet Art” CR

Sections 3/31

• Semiotic Analysis

Wed. 4/2 The Look of the Web

• Chap 5 "The Look of the Web", 81-104 WT
• Lialina, Olia. “Vernacular Web 2”. ONLINE

Mon. 4/7 Web 2.0

• Andrew Keen, Intro and Chap. 1 from The Cult of the Amateur Course Reader
• "The Person of the Year is You" Selections from Time Magazine, Dec 26, 2006. Course Reader
• Mary Madden and Susannah Fox, "Riding the Waves of Web 2.0" ONLINE
  
  

Sections 4/7

• PRESENTATIONS: Identity and Social Networking

Wed. 4/9 Participatory Culture [Cultural Studies]

• Henry Jenkins, "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture" Course Reader
• ** PAPERS ARE DUE in lecture

Mon. 4/14 Piracy

• Lawrence Lessig, “Pirates”; "Piracy" CR
• "Regulation and Copyright" pp. 136-149 WT

Sections 4/14

• Web 2.0, participatory culture, intellectual property, and critiques of the amateur

Wed. 4/16 Copyright

• Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu, "The Filesharing Movement" CR
• Chap. 9 "The Web of Entertainment", 176-197 WT

Mon. 4/21 MMORPG's

• Edward Castronova, "Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games" Course Reader

• PRESENTATIONS: Networked Gaming

Wed. 4/23 Mediated Spaces I: The Death of Geography?

• Ella Shohat, "By the Bitstream of Babylon: Cyberfrontiers and Diasporic Vistas" Course Reader
• **QUIZ 2 in lecture

Mon. 4/28 Ubiquitous Computing

• Howard Rheingold, “Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution” CR
• Adam Greenfield, “How is Everyware Different from What We’re Used to?” ONLINE
• "Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything is Observed." by Pamela Licalzi O'Connell, New York Times, 10/5/05 CR
  

Sections 4/28

• PRESENTATIONS: Mediated Spaces

Wed. 4/30 Remediation

• Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, selections from "Remediation" CR
  
• * ** Web Showcase submissions due by 11pm on Wed 4/30

Mon. 5/5

• Henry Jenkins, "The Cultural Logic of Media Convergence" Course Reader

Sections 5/5

• Final exam review

Wed. 5/7 (Last Day of Class)

• Web Showcase: Extra Credit Opportunity
• **PRACTICUM PROJECT is due in lecture

Thurs. 5/15/08
2:45 pm