| Lesson 2, Feb 7 | Cyberspace: The Early Social Web
| Readings:
A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
The Heart of The Well, from The Virtual Community by Howard Rheingold
Suggested:
Sociable Media by Judith Donath (Prepared for The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction)
Psychological Sense of Community:
Theory of McMillan & Chavis (1986) |
Videos:
Blogs in Plain English by Commoncraft
The Machine is Us/ing Us
Assignments Lab: open Wordpress blogs. Read and complete first blog assignment for next week (see: Assignments menu), continue microblogging and responding to reading threads in discussion forum
Featured sites: Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, WordPress, Vox, ExpressionEngine, Xanga Micro-blogging: fmylife, Jaiku, Plurk, Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, Yammer
| | Lesson 3, Feb 14 | | Virtual Communities | Readings:
"Netsurfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities As Communities," in Communities in Cyberspace, Kollock and Smith, eds., Routledge, by Barry Wellman and Milena Julia
Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
Suggested:
The Network Community by Barry Wellman
"Personal Mediated Communication and the Concept of Community in Theory and Practice," in P. Kalbfleisch (ed), Communication and Community, Communication Yearbook 28, Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp 1-20 " Ronald E. Rice, James E. Katz, Sophia Acord, Kiku Dasgupta, Kalpana David
The End of Courtship
| Assignments Lab: First blog assignment due, work on organizing personal learning journal (a wiki journal is optional to wordpress), continue microblogging and discussion threads
Featured sites: Wikis: Wikipedia, PBwiki, wetpaint Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit |
| | Lesson 5, Feb 28 | | Networks and Social Networks | Readings:
Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites by danah boyd.
"Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25 (2001), Special Issue on "Networks, Class and Place," edited by Talja Blokland and Mike Savage (by Barry Wellman)
Suggested:
Why Networks Matter by Manuel Castells
"The Strength of Weak Ties, A Network Theory Revisited," Sociological Theory, Volume 1(1983), 201-233 by Mark Granovetter (google title for pdf format)
Study shows similarities between Facebook and real-world communities |
Assignments: second blog assignment due, continue microblogging and discussion threads, decide on midterm projects
Featured sites: Social bookmarking (or social tagging): Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, CiteULike |
| Lesson 7, Mar 14MIDTERM EXAM
Week 8, Mar 18-22
Spring Break |
| Lesson 10, Apr 4
| | Social Identity | Readings:
Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community by Judith Donath
Virtual Rape is Traumatic, but is it a Crime? (for Wired by Regina Lynn)
Suggested:
Bizarro Identity by Buzz Machine
"A Rape in Cyberspace. In My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World” (pp. 11-30). New York: Henry Holt and Company (by Julian Dibbell)
Rheingold mind-to-mind with Sherry Turkle
Case study: Cyberbulling & Anonymous
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Video: Podcasting in Plain English
Assignments: Read and complete your third blog exercise (see: Assignments section) continue microblogging and reading discussions, commenting on others' blogs
Featured sites: Social networking: Bebo, BigTent, Elgg, Facebook, Geni.com, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Skyrock, Social network aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed |
| | Lesson 11, Apr 11 | Virtual Community and Real Life
| Readings:
"Can you hear me now?" (for Forbes by Sherry Turkle)
The Autumn of the Multitaskers (for Atlantic Magazine by Walter Kirn)
Suggested:
Hyperattention (by Katherine Hayles)
Case study: Privacy
| Assigments Lab: Third blog assignment due, read fourth blog assignment, continue microblogging, reading discussions and commenting on others' blogs
Featured sites: Social networking: Bebo, BigTent, Elgg, Facebook, Geni.com, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Skyrock, Social network aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed |
| Lessson 12, Apr 18
| Virtual Community and Real Life II
| Readings:
"Incantations for Muggles," Presentation at O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference (by danah boyd)
Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community (by John Coate)
Welcome to Quora. Do Yourself a Favor & Slow Down.
| Assignments Lab: continue microblogging, reading discussions and commenting on others' blogs
Featured sites: Photo sharing: Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket, SmugMug, Picasa Video sharing: YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, sevenload Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam, Skype Audio and Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter, ShareTheMusic |
| Lesson 13, Apr 25 HOLIDAY: Make-up class Fri, Apr 26
| Designing and Maintaining Online Communities
| Readings:
The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online (by Howard Rheingold)
The WELL Host Manual (chapter two)
Suggested:
Nine Principles for Making Virtual Communities Work (by Mike Godwin)
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Assigments: Fourth blog assignment due, journals complete
Featured sites: Photo sharing: Flickr, Zooomr, Photobucket, SmugMug, Picasa Video sharing: YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, sevenload Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam, Skype Audio and Music Sharing: imeem, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter, ShareTheMusic |
| Lesson 14, May 2
| | Final Exam Presentations | | Lesson 15, May 8 | Final Exam
*credits: special thanks to writer, critic and U.C. Berkeley lecturer, Howard Rheingold. | |
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