Schedule and readings are subject to change. Reading assignments appear below the schedule. Class meets M/W in 7:00pm-9:20pm OUG 102; UW IDs required after 8 pm.
Schedule
week 1 – introductions and context (w 4 jan)
week 2 – digital networking (m 9 jan, w 11 jan)
- understanding the context and economics of digital publishing
week 3 – ethics, copyright and other laws (m holiday, w 18 jan m 23 jan)
- understanding what we can and can’t do as personal publishers
- Discussion Leader presentations
- Multimedia : Lessig on creativity (TED), A Fair(y) Use Tale (YouTube)
week 4 – Wikipedia (w 25 jan)
- an alternative form of “user generated content”
- Discussion Leader presentations
- Sample quiz
week 5 – Facebook (m 30 jan, w 1 feb)
- the 600-pound digital network gorilla
- First Quiz
- Discussion Leader presentations
week 6 – Twitter (m 6 feb, w 8 feb)
- microblogging versus long(er) form writing
- Discussion Leader presentations
week 7 – Google (w 15 feb – moved to week 9/10 – we will attend session on typography at Kane Hall)
the 600-pound search network gorillaDiscussion Leader presentations- typography exercise
week 8 – Flickr (w 22 feb)
- pictures and those 1,000 words
- Discussion Leader presentations
week 9 – organizational and political communication in a digital world (m 27 feb, w 29 feb)
- the impact of blogging technologies on traditional communication
- Discussion Leader presentations
week 10 – how technology shapes the world (m 5 mar, w 7 mar)
- is it a brave new world?
- Discussion Leader presentations (Google)
- Second Quiz
week 11 – finals week (projects due, no final)
Readings
The reading reflection is not a summary or abstract of the readings. Rather, it is a reflection on the ideas and concepts raised in the pieces. Use this post to explore the materials for the week and think about how they might contribute to your future work or outlook. Your post should convince me that you have read the material! Reading posts are due at 9 am Monday. Details on the assignment.
- UW Library OFF CAMPUS (log in first) Full Text Electronic Journal List – search by title, author, publication, DOI.
- Submittal form for reading posts
Week 2: Read before Monday 9 January 2012
- Blogging as social action
- Kadushin, C. (2004). Introduction to Social Network Theory. communityanalytics.com/Portals/0/Resource_Library/Social%20Network%20Theory_Kadushin.pdf
- Shapiro, H. (2003, March 23). Economics of Information Technology. A revised version of the Raffaele Mattioli Lecture, delivered at Bocconi University, Milano, Italy, on November 15-16, 2001 and delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, on March 6, 2003. http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/mattioli/mattioli.html
Week 3: Read before Monday 16 January 2012
- Boyle, J. (2000, November). Cruel, Mean or Lavish? Economic analysis, price discrimination and digital intellectual property. Vanderbilt Law Review, 53(6). http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/cruel.pdf
- Crews, K.D. (2001). The law of fair use and the illusion of fair-use guidelines. The Ohio State Law Journal, 62. http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/lawjournal/issues/volume62/number2/crews.pdf
- Geere, D. (2011, December 13). The history of Creative Commons. Wired.uk. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-12/13/history-of-creative-commons?page=all
- Loren, L.P. (2008). The purpose of copyright. Open Spaces Quarterly, 2(1). http://www.open-spaces.com/article-v2n1-loren.php
Week 4: Read before Monday 23 January 2012
- Almeida, R., Mozafari, B. and Cho, J. (2007). On the evolution of Wikipedia. ICWSM. http://www.icwsm.org/papers/2–Almeida-Mozafari-Cho.pdf
- Garden, M. (2011). Defining blog: A fool’s errand or a necessary undertaking? Journalism. DOI: 10.1177/1464884911421700 [off-campus login required]
Mediamorphosis, Ch 4. eReserve- What is Web 2.0. O’Reilly (2005)
- Wikipedia entry on Wikipedia
Week 5: Read before Monday 30 January 2012
- boyd, d. and Hargittai, E. (2010). Facebook Privacy Settings: Who Cares? First Monday 15 (8).
- Haridakis, P. and Hanson, G. (2009). Social interaction and co-viewing with YouTube: blending mass communication reception and social connection. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 53:2. DOI: 10.1080/08838150902908270 [off-campus login required]
Rosen, C. (Fall 2004- Winter 2005). The New Age of Ego-Casting. The New Atlantis.- Schonoboom, (2011). Work blogging in a Facebook age. Work Employment & Society. DOI: 10.1177/0950017010389247 [off-campus login required]
Week 6: Read before Monday 6 February 2012
- Kerbel, M.R. and Bloom, J.D. (2005). Blog for America and civic involvement. The International Journal of Press/Politics. doi: 10.1177/1081180X05281395 [off-campus login required]
- Lotan, G., Graeff, E., Ananny, M., Gaffney, D., Pearce, I. and boyd, d. (2011). The revolutions were tweeted: Information flows during the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions. International Journal of Communications 5, Feature 1375–1405.
- Marwick, A. and boyd, d. (2011). I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience. New Media and Society, 13, 96-113. [Draft PDF]
Wei, R. and Lo, V. (2006, February). Staying connected while on the move : Cell phone use and social connectedness. New Media Society, 8(53). DOI: 10.1177/1461444806059870 [off campus login required]
Week 7: Read before Monday 13 February 2012
- Brin, S. and Page, L. (n.d.) The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
- Does Google Make Us Stupid? Pew Research (2010)
- Krazit, T. (2010, December 3). An inside look at Google’s loudest critic. cNet. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20024449-265.html
- Liedtke, M. (2011, May 23). Judge echos Google critics in digital book ruling. USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-03-23-google-books_N.htm
Week 8: Read before Monday 20 February 2012
- Cox, A.M. (2008). Flickr: A case study of Web2.0. Aslib Proceedings, 60 (5), pp. 493-516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012530810908210
- Lucus, J.C. and Goh, J.M. (2009). Disruptive technology: How Kodak missed the digital photography revolution. Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 18(1), 46-55. DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2009.01.002 [off-campus login required]
- Murray, S. (2008). Digital images, photo-sharing, and our shifting notions of everyday aesthetics. Journal of Visual Culture. DOI: 10.1177/1470412908091935 [off campus login required]
Week 9: Read before Monday 27 February 2012
Baker, K. (2002). Ch 13 Organizational Communication. http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/doe/benchmark/ch13.pdf- Ekdale, B. et al. (2010). Why blog? (then and now). New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1461444809341440 [off-campus login required]
Johnson, T.J. and Kaye, B.K. (2003). Around the World Wide Web in 80 Ways: how motives for going online are linked to internet activities among politically interested internet users. Social Science Computer Review, 21(3). DOI: 10.1177/0894439303253976 [off-campus login required]- Shirky, C. (2008). Chapter 3, Here Comes Everybody. eReserve
- Wilson, J. (2011, May). Playing with politics: Political fans and Twitter faking in post-broadcast democracy. Convergence. DOI: 10.1177/1354856511414348 [off-campus login required]
Week 10: Read before Monday 5 March 2012
- Greenberg, S. (2010). When the editor disappears, does editing disappear? Convergence. DOI: 10.1177/1354856509347695
- Hess, C. and Ostrom, E. (2006). Introduction: an overview of the knowledge commons. Understanding Knowledge as a Commons, From Theory to Practice. MIT Press. http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/chapters/0262083574intro1.pdf
Riede, E. et al. (2003). The role of the Internet in national and local news media use. Journal of Online Behavior, 1(3). http://www.behavior.net/JOB/v1n3/riedel.html- Vest, C. (2006, May/June). Open content and the emerging global meta-university. Educause Review, 41(3). http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM0630.pdf
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