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Final Class

dave — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:32:20 +0000

Last class is on Tuesday December 6th. We will be talking about Johnathan Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. See you then. (No wiki this week; work on your final paper.)

Who Owns the Future?

dave — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:10:48 +0000

UPDATE: You should have feedback on your proposals now (emailed to everyone). Let me know if you did not receive it. Many of you need to tweak and resubmit on Monday.

For Tuesday the 22nd read Chapters 1-3, 11-14 of Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Information Economy and then watch Rip a Remix Manifesto.

B is editing the Habermas/Poster entry.

C is the new page on these entries.

A is off.

Panopticon or Nonopticon

dave — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:55:26 +0000

Read two articles for Tuesdays class:

-”Discipline and Punish”

-”Naked in the Nonopticon.”

We will also be discussing the Poster which we did not get to last week.

Reminder: Your final paper proposals are due at the? beginning of class.

The Network and Politics

dave — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 21:49:41 +0000

Read:

Jurgen Habermas, “The Public Sphere an Encyclopedia Article.”

Mark Poster, “Cyberdemocracy”

Clay Shirky, “The Political Power of Social Media.”

Evgeny Morozov, “The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens.”

Wiki:

B is Off

C is Editing

A is Creating

Reminder: Final Project proposals are due on Nov. 15th.

The Power of Everyone

dave — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:48:04 +0000

Start by reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everyone. Next read a few short articles:

Jaron Lanier, “Digital Maoism: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism”

Nicholas Carr “The Amorality of Web 2.0?

“The Good, The Bad, and the Web 2.0?

Group C is Off.

B is creating the new page.

A is editing.

Remediation

dave — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 13:31:55 +0000

October 18th we will be discussing Bolter and Grusin’s article “Remediation.” You should read this piece and watch either The Matrix or Minority Report. Watch whichever one you haven’t seen, if you have seen neither pick one. Midterms are due … Continue reading →

Network Theory

dave — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:26:09 +0000

On October 11th we will be talking about how the paradigm of “networks” changes/informs cultural analysis. Two readings for that day.

Manuel Castells “Why Networks Matter.“
Christakis & Fowler. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.

The Work of . . . in the Age of . . .

dave — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:20:51 +0000

On October 4th we will be talking about two works. Don’t be fooled by their respective short lengths, each is difficult so leave yourself enough time. Read them in the order I have listed below.

Group A should compile the new notes.

Group B is off.

Group C edits the notes from two weeks ago (McLuhan, etc.)

Orality and Literacy

dave — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:52:01 +0000

For September 20th we will be looking at one of the more famous debates about technological “progress”: The Question of Language.

Read:

Plato, Phaedrus. (Don’t read the entire dialogues of Plato you only need to read Phaedrus, the link will send you to the entire dialogues.) Although the dialogue appears to be about the question of love, make sure you pay attention to the discussion of medium of communication. Plato has a lot to say about writing and speech here.
Walter Ong, Orality to Literacy. (Just read the selected chapters linked to here.)
Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message.”
Linda Stone, “May I Have Your Attention Please.”

Wiki:

Group A revises last week
Group B writes for this week
Group C is off

The Nature of Humanity and the Internet

dave — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:45:37 +0000

Next class we will be discussing two central debates that at least in part shape how nearly every problem/issue/discussion takes place on the internet.

The first is what is the nature of the human and the nature of the human in relation to technology. For this read The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy‘s entry on “Social Contract Theory.” Read carefully the parts on Rousseau, Hobbes, and Locke, you can scan the remainder of the piece. Also read Culture and Technology Chapters 3,4,8 & 9. (If you don’t know the password ask one of your classmates who took notes during class when I told you.)

Second read a pair of articles that discuss the technical formation of the internet. Start by reading the appendix to Blown to Bits and then read “The Spread of TCP/IP and the Political Origins of the Internet.”

After you are done make sure you contribute to the class wiki.

Group B is responsible for editing last weeks entries.

Group C is responsible for editing the page for this weeks class (the readings above).

Group A has off this week.