Democracy, Governance, and the Digital Network

For Tuesday’s class read the Hartley article, in the course reader. And, bonus points to anyone who can come up with an idea of what a book burning on the web would look like (this question courtesy of Robbie). Come up with something better than an even in Second Life or WoW, that’s to easy, [...]

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Read: Both “Word Processor” & “The Book to Come” from Paper Machine (Derrida). Remember, spend an hour reading this, if you don’t get thru it in an hour, no worries, I realize it is complex. We will cover it in class, but give it an hour of good faith effort. Write: A blog post that [...]

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Reading: Read Bolter and Grusin, “Remediation.” If you did not receive a copy already email me and I will get you one. Writing: Spend sometime looking at blogs your classmates have recommended, add ones which interst you to Google Reader. By Sunday midnight you need to write a post which comments on another post (from [...]

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Three things you need to do for Thursday You need to read/watch the following. All are short, but they should help to explain RSS. – “RSS in Plain English” The Common Craft Show – “The Technology of Reading and Writing in a Digital Space: Why RSS is crucial for a Blogging Classroom” David Parry, Michigan [...]

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The first step is to get yourself a get yourself a google account (as Brandon points out as long as you have gmail you’re good). If you already have a google account, you can go straight to Google Reader. Once you login to Google Reader you should see a page that looks something like this: [...]

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A few students have pointed out that due to the UTD bookstore listing the wrong books some of you have had to reorder the texts, and thus as of this weekend do not have Uses of Blogs for Tuesdays readings. I want to make sure everyone has done the reading for Tues. in order to [...]

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Here are your assignments for Tuesday. Set up your blog, see below. And remember to email me your blog’s url. (If this is your first email to me make sure that the subject line says ATEC 3325 or 3325 and contains your name in the body of the email.) Read the three assigned articles for [...]

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So, in addition to the readings for Tuesday, you need to set up your blog. Please make sure that you do this by Sunday evening and email the link (url) of your blog. Here is a step by step guide courtsey of Jenn. 1. Go to wordpress.com 2. Click on “Sign up” or “Start your [...]

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Welcome to Intro. to Computer Mediated Communication (ATEC 3325) at UT Dallas. Rather simply this class is about how communication changes (or doesn’t change) when we move from analog to digital structures. Thus, it only makes sense to maintain an online component for this class. Here you will find schedule of readings, class assignments, updates, [...]

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