WEEK 1
Monday Sept 13| intro
Wednesday Sept 15| 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 20| 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 22 | 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
3. Web Squared: Web 2.0 in Five Years http://www.web2summit.com/web2009/public/schedule/detail/10194
Presenter: Angela Malley
WEEK 3
Monday Sept 27| who controls the internet: Code? Corporations?
Reading:
1. Jenkins ch 1
2. Lessig, Lawrence. “Code is Law” http://harvardmagazine.com/2000/01/code-is-law.html
3. Manjoo, Farhad. “The corporate toll on the Internet,” Salon
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/04/17/toll/index.html
Presenter: Spencer Julia
Wednesday Sept 29| who controls the internet: governments?
Reading:
1.PBS Frontline: The Struggle to Control Information
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/internet/
2.OpenNet Initiative
About Filtering
http://opennet.net/about-filtering
Country Profiles
http://opennet.net/research/profiles
Filtering Map
http://map.opennet.net/
3. Electronic Frontier Foundation resources:
http://www.eff.org/patriot/
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Surveillance/Terrorism/antiterrorism_chill.html
Presenters: Dylan Jones, Grant Tumen
WEEK 4
Monday Oct 4 | who controls the internet?: Copyright Law
Reading:
The CO's not-easily-understood fair use explanation:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
Stanford's better explanation (better than DU's too):
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-b.html
Evelyn McDonnell on Shepard Fairey (via Jenkins):
http://henryjenkins.org/2010/01/never_mind.html (part 1)
http://henryjenkins.org/2010/01/never_mind_the_bollocks_part_t.html (part 2)
Wednesday Oct 6 | Writing workshop and exam review
Presenter: James Tarras
WEEK 5
Monday Oct 11| Exam
Wednesday Oct 13| kids: digital natives and helpless victims
In Class: Frontline program Growing up online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/
Reading:
1. Jenkins 5
Presenters: Suzanna Rogers, Alex Rabaa
WEEK 6
Monday Oct 18| kids: digital natives and helpless victims
Reading:
1. Boyd, Danah. “Why Youth Heart Social Networks.”
http://www.danah.org/papers/WhyYouthHeart.pdf
2. Ito, M. et al., Living and Learning with New Media http://digitalyouth.ischool.berkeley.edu download and read the summary white paper
Presenters: Lesley Pahl, Sonia Wilk
Wednesday Oct 20| politics: new and old tools and practices
Reading/viewing:
1. “New Media, Old Politics?” MIT Communication Forum.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/play/238/ (in class)
2.Talbot, David. “How Obama Really Did It.” MIT Technology Review.”
3.Sites to check out:
http://www.moveon.org/
http://www.campaignads.org/
http://www.meetup.com/
http://www.barackobama.com/index.php
http://www.mittromney.com/
WEEK 7
Monday Oct 25| politics and popular culture
Reading:
1. Jenkins 4
2. Jenkins 6
3.Sites to check out:
http://www.mccainblogette.com/
http://politicalremix.wordpress.com/
http://www.theyesmen.org/
Presenters: Mike McKelvey, Kiah Francil
Wednesday Oct 27 | transformation of cultural industries: in general
Reading:
1. Adrienne Russell, Mimi Ito, Todd Richmond, and Marc Tuters. “Culture.”
http://networkedpublics.org/book/culture
2. Jenkins 2
3. Jenkins 3
Presenters: Charles St. John, Siming Xei
WEEK 8
Monday Nov 1| transformation of cultural industries: photography
Reading: TBA
Presenters: Becca Blanc, Charlie Perkins
Wednesday Nov 3| transformation of cultural industries: 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
Presenters: Robin Lindgren, Julia Matche
WEEK 9
Monday Nov 8| RIP: A Remix Manifesto
Nov 10| Convergence and Review
WEEK 10
Monday Nov 15 | transformation of cultural industries: wikipedia and wikileaks
Reading:
http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2010/07/26/wikileaks_afghan.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128485967
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian
Presenters: Joey Brehm, Shelby Drake, Brett Williams
Wednesday Nov 17 | Exam
