course schedule

SCHEDULE
WEEK 1
Monday Sept 14| intro

Wednesday Sept 16| where old and new intersect
Reading:
1. Jenkins intro; Please find at least 3 blogs you like and 3 blogs you don’t like and be
prepared to discuss why.

WEEK 2
Monday Sept 21| what is the social web and where did it come from?
Reading:
1. Kelly, Kevin. "Wired 13.08: We Are the Web." Wired News. 1 Jan 2005.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html;
2. O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0”
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Wednesday Sept 23 | what is the social web and what can we do with it?
Reading:
1."List of social networking websites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." Main Page -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 16 Jul 2007.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
2. Bruns, Axel, “Introduction,” Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From
Production to Produsage http://snurb.info/files/Produsage%20-%20Introduction.pdf

WEEK 3
Monday Sept 28| who controls the internet: amateurs and code
Reading:
1. Jenkins ch 1
2. Lessig, Lawrence. “Code is Law” http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law.html
Wednesday Sept 30| who controls the internet: corporations (or what is net neutrality?)
Reading:
1. Manjoo, Farhad. "The corporate toll on the Internet,” Salon
2.Wikipedia on Net-neutrality
3. FCC embraces net neutrality

WEEK 4
Monday Oct 5 | who controls the internet: governments
Reading:
1.PBS Frontline: The Struggle to Control Information
2.OpenNet Initiative
About Filtering
Country Profiles
Filtering Map
3. Electronic Frontier Foundation resources:
Patriot Act
Antiterrorism Chill

Wednesday Oct 7 | who controls the internet: governments and corporations
Reading:
Lessig, Free Culture, introduction

WEEK 5
Monday Oct 12| Exam

Wednesday Oct 14| kids: digital natives and helpless victims
In Class: Frontline program Growing up online
Reading:
1. Jenkins 5

WEEK 6
Monday Oct 19 | kids: digital natives and helpless victims
Reading:
1. Boyd, Danah. “Why Youth Heart Social Networks.”

2. Ito, M. et al., Living and Learning with New Media download and read the summary white paper

Wednesday Oct 21| Discussion of digital media and kids


WEEK 7
Monday Oct 26 | politics: new and old tools and practices
Reading/viewing:
1. “New Media, Old Politics?” MIT Communication Forum. (in class)
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/238/ (in class)
2. Tryon, Chuck. “‘Why 2008 Won’t Be Like 1984’: Viral Videos and Presidential Politics.”
Flow.
3. Heffner, Alexander. “YouTube Debates.” CJR.
4.Talbot, David. “How Obama Really Did It.” MIT Technology Review.”
Sites to check out:
Move on
Campaign ads
Meetup
Whitehouse.gov

Wednesday Oct 28 | Pop and politics
Reading:
1) Jenkins 4
2) Jenkins 6
3)
Sites to check out:
http://www.mccainblogette.com/
http://politicalremix.wordpress.com/
http://www.theyesmen.org/

WEEK 8
Monday Nov 2| transformation of cultural industries
Reading:

1. Adrienne Russell, Mimi Ito, Todd Richmond, and Marc Tuters. “Culture.”
2. Jenkins 2
3. Jenkins 3


Wednesday Nov 4| future of entertainment
Reading:
Anderson, Chris. The Long Tail

Quarterlife
Heather Havrilesky, H. I like to Watch, Salon


WEEK 9
Monday Nov 9 |news
Reading:
1. Jenkins Conclusion
2. Rosen, Jay. "PressThink: The People Formerly Known as the Audience." Department of Journalism at New York University. 27 Jun 2006.
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2006/06/27/ppl_frmr.html
3.Diggnation http://digg.com/users/diggnation

Wednesday Nov 11| wikipedia debates
Reading:
1.Daniel Terdiman. “Wikipedia Faces Growing Pains.” Wired.
http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/01/66210
2.Chris Anderson. “Jimmy Wales.” Time. April 30, 2006
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1187286,00.html
3.“Will Wikipedia Mean the End Of Traditional Encyclopedias?” The Wall Street Journal
Online invited Mr. Wales to discuss the topic with Dale Hoiberg, editor-in-chief of
Britannica. Sept 12 2006.
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115756239753455284.html



WEEK 10
Monday Nov 16 |

Wednesday Nov 18 | future of the social web

1. Cascio, Jamais. "WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon." 4 May 2005.

2. Anderson, Chris. “Free.” Wired.