Read the essay by Foucault and the one by Nakamura. Both can be found on eReserves.

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For Tuesday read Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody. It is longer than most of the things we have been covering so give yourself enough time.

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This Thursday’s readings will cover the concept of the “public sphere.” Read Habermas’s “The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Entry”, Peter Boeder “Habermas’ Heritage and the Public Sphere and Mark Poster’s “Cyberdemocracy.”

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Tuesday will mark a shift away from focusing on the technological structures of media to the effects that media have on our notion of “public” and “publicness.” Begin by reading Part 1 of The German Ideology . Next read Stuart Hall on “Encoding/Decoding” which is available on eReserve.

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