| CLASS SCHEDULE
* This course schedule is tentative and subject to change according to the needs and interests of the class. |
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| T 1/31 | Introduction to class | |
| Th 2/2 | Nick Couldry, “Introduction: digital media and social theory” (pp. 1-28)
Multimedia workshop |
Blogpost 1 due: 2/7 |
| Digital histories | ||
| T 2/14 | Ch 1. Building a digital society
Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” |
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| Th 2/16 | Light, Jennifer. 1999. “When Computers Were Women.” Technology and Culture 40: 455-483.
Edwards, Paul. 1996. “Why Build Computers?: The Military Role in Computer Research.” In The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 43-52. |
2 facilitators |
| T 2/21 | Lev Manovich. 2001. “What is New Media?” In The Language of New Media. Cambridge: MIT Press. pp. 19-48. | 2 facilitators |
| Th 2/23 | Watch: Werner Herzog, Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (2016) | 1 facilitator
Blogpost 2 due: 2/22 |
| Digital individuals | ||
| T 2/28 | Sherry Turkle, “Identity in the Age of the Internet” and “Aspects of the Self,” from Life on the Screen | 2 facilitators |
| Th 3/2 | Ch 3. Typing the user
Ch 5. Pleasing bodies |
2 facilitators |
| T 3/7 | Ch 7. My personal public | 1 facilitator
Blogpost 3 due: 3/6 |
| Digital authorities | ||
| Th 3/9 | Ch 14. Under scrutiny
Lawrence Lessig, chapter 1 “Code is Law” from Code 2.0 (pp 1-8), 2006, New York, NY: Basic Books. |
2 facilitators |
| T 3/14 | Vaidhyanathan, Siva. 2003. “Copyright and American Culture: Ideas, Expressions, and Democracy,” in Copyrights and Copywrongs: The Riseof Intellectual Property and How It Threatens Creativity. New York: NYU Press. pp. 17-34. | 2 facilitators |
| Th 3/16 | Mark Andrejevic. 2007. Introduction. In iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era , 1-21. | 1 facilitator |
| T 3/21 | Carole Cadwalladr, “Google, democracy and the truth about internet search” | 1 facilitator
Blogpost 4 due: 3/20 |
| Th 3/23 | Review | |
| T 3/28 | Exam I | |
| Th 3/30 | Group multimedia project discussion
Multimedia workshop |
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| Digital economies | ||
| T 4/4 | Ch 9. The road to serverdom
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1 facilitator |
| Th 4/6 | Ch 10. Digital property
Watch: Rip!
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1 facilitator |
| 4/10-18 | Spring recess | |
| Th 4/20 | Classes follow Monday schedule | Blogpost 6 due: 4/20 |
| T 4/25 | ch 11. Consuming power
Grace Dobush, “How Etsy alienated its crafters and lost its soul”
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2 facilitators |
| Th 4/27 | Mark Andrejevic. 2011. “Surveillance and Alienation in the Online Economy.” Surveillance & Society 8 (3): 278-287. | 1 facilitator
Blogpost 5 due: 4/26 |
| Digital communities, public, networks | ||
| T 5/2 | Ch 13. Virtual democracy | *1 facilitator
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| Th 5/4 | H. Jenkins and S. Ford, Spreadable Media Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Chapter 4)
Samuel Freedman, “In a New Ritual, Many Find Solace Online” |
*2 facilitators
*2 groups presentation |
| T 5/9 | Lisa Nakamura, “Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” from Cybertypes
Frank Schaap, “Disaggregation, Technology, and Masculinity,” from Critical Cyberculture Studies |
*2 facilitators
*2 groups presentation |
| Th 5/11 | Carl Sagan, “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection” from The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1996)
Eric Weiskott, “Before ‘Fake News’ Came False Prophecy” in The Atlantic, Dec 27, 2016 |
*2 facilitators
*2 groups presentation *Blogpost 7 due: 5/10 |
| T 5/16 | Review | *3 groups presentation
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| Th 5/18 | Exam II | |
| Group multimedia project due TBA | ||