Democracy, Governance, and the Digital Network

You readings are short (should only take 30-45 minutes), and you do not need to post to your blog (unless of course you are behind in posts). Reminder midterms are do Monday 10:00 AM my office (ATEC 1.502). The Long Tail” Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine The Long Tail Blog, Chris Anderson

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For an example of Wikipedia at its best visit the rapidly changing article on the Burmese Protests. The military juanta in has a long record of violent response to uprisings. With traditional media often ignoring, or not having access to information in Burma the power of the Smart Mob has taken over.

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As a demonstration of the Panopticon and related to the Smart Mobs assignment for next week, consider the following: A professor at Pitzer now teaches a class on and thru YouTube. In other words all of the assignments, class meetings, etc are posted for all to see. The class page can be found here on [...]

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One of the things that Rheingold discusses is the issue of “spectrum” specifically “spectrum regulation.” This is a fairly complicated political/historical issue. You might want to check out the following video, which is a slide capture of Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig. Lessig is well known for his participation in this debate, and we will [...]

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Read: Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold, Introduction and Chapters 1-3. Make sure you read the introduction as it makes the project clear, and he has some important points in this part. Don’t forget to bring the book to class as you will need it. Write: Write a blog post in the same manner as your [...]

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I have been spending time today reading your various posts. I will go over some general comments in class on Tuesday to hopefully help you all, but one thought in particular struck me, that is that the students who were most familiar with blogs were most successful at writing posts. (I know this is captain [...]

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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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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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