Schedule

Week 1

Jan 7 Monday:
Introduction

Jan 9 Wednesday:
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Week 2

Jan 14 Monday:
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Jan 16 Wednesday:
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Week 3

Jan 21 Monday: Martin Luther King’s Day, classes do not meet

Jan 23 Wednesday:
“The Peek-a Boo World,” Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
“The Age of Show Business,” Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman

Activism in the Electronic Era

Week 4

Jan 28 Monday:
“Reach out and Elect someone,” Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman
"South Carolina Debate" http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=148213&title=south-carolina-debate&tag=generic_tag_hillary_clinton&itemId=104903
"New Hampshire Punditry"
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=147328&title=new-hampshire-punditry&tag=generic_tag_hillary_clinton&itemId=104903

Jan 30 Wednesday:
Selections from “Open Source Democracy: How online communication is changing off-line politics,” Douglas Rushkoff, downloadable online at Demos http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/opensourcedemocracy2

• Chapter 3: Electronic Community: From birth to backlash
• Chapter 5: Networked Democracy

View:
"Hillary Clinton Sopranos Parody"
“CNN/YouTube Debate: Submit Your Question Today!”
“2008 SC CNN/ YouTube Democratic Debate (Part 1),”
“Anderson Cooper on The CNN/YouTube Debates,”
“CNN/YouTube Debate: Global Warming,”
“Impeachment ? Censored CNN/Youtube Debate: Askers Response,”
“CNN YOUTUBE DEBATE FRAUD,”
“CNN PLANTED QUESTIONS AT DEMO. DEBATE - YOUTUBE TO DO SAME?”
“CNN debate rigged ???, Diamonds, Pearls, BLAH BLAH,”
“MAINSTREAM MEDIA:WHICH CANDIDATE IS THE BIGGEST BULLSHITTER,”
“CNN Youtube Republican Debate? (what a joke),”
“The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate: What did you think?”
“CNN/YouTube Republican Debate - A Citizen's Response,”
“Re: CNN/YouTube Republican Debate Question - Ask A Chola – L,”
“What You Won't See at The CNN/YouTube Republican Debate ...,”

Week 5

February 4 Monday:
"How to Recognize the Future When it Lands on You," Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold, e-reserve
“Mobile Phones and Social Activism,” Ethan Zuckerman, http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/hardware/page7216.cfm?rss=1
"Using Twitter in news and community reporting: the St. Louis example," Bruno Giussani, http://www.lunchoverip.com/2008/01/using-twitter-i.html
“YouTube censors Egyptian Police brutality” http://mashable.com/2007/11/28/youtube-censors-egyptian-police-brutality/
“Egyptian Blogger Silenced by YouTube?,” Sara Bonisteel, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,313922,00.html
“Blocked! The Year in Online Censorship,” Paul Glazowski, http://mashable.com/2007/12/26/online-censorship/
“YouTube Bans Breastfeeding…video,” Paul Nyhon, http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/family/archives/126702.asp?source=mypi
“Mass Deletion Sparks LiveJournal? Revolt,” Declan McCullagh?, http://www.news.com/Mass-deletion-sparks-LiveJournal-revolt/2100-1025_3-6187619.html

View
UF Police Taser Student During Kerry Forum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaiWCS10C5s
LA Riots http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0hQuf0287g
Rodney King http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zp6ILYvzb4&NR=1
L.A. Riots of 1992: Rodney King speaks; Late troop arrival http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgiR04ey7-M&NR=1
The 1992 Riots of Los Angeles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6udJ5g4Tdqc&feature=related

Recommended
Selections from “Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many,” Smart Mobs, Howard Rheingold, e-reserve

February 6 Wednesday:
“Photoshop for Democracy,” Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins, e -reserve
“I made the “vote different” ad” Phil de Vellis, aka Parkridge47, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-de-vellis-aka-parkridge/i-made-the-vote-differen_b_43989.html
"YouTube? Debates: How different?" http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/11/youtube_debates_-_how_different/
"Howard Dean Scream Remixes," http://politicalhumor.about.com/b/2004/01/21/howard-dean-scream-remixes.htm

View:
“1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial,”
“Vote Different,”
“Why I made the 'Vote Different' Ad,”
“VOTE SMART: a warning to all women about hillary Clinton,”
“Hillary Clinton Accused of Sexual Abuse (RAPE),”
Donald Trump Fires Bush
Howard Dean YEAH!!!
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
New Era Colorado : Vote Naked!
Bush in Mad Magazine

Recommended
“Introduction: ‘Worship at the Altar of Convergence’” Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins

Jamming Mainstream Media

Week 6

February 11 Monday:
“Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing, and Snipping in the Empire of Signs” Mark Dery, http://www.markdery.com/culture_jamming.html
“Hacking Barbie’s Voice Box: ‘The Vengeance is Mine’” Pyrotechnic
Insanitarium, Mark Dery, http://www.levity.com/markdery/barbie.html
"Culture-Jamming? Decapitator Hacks London Ads," Jenna Wortham, http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/01/culture-jammer.html

Browse:
Adbusters http://adbusters.org/home/

February 13 Wednesday:
Flickr Project, class meets at Swain East 045
Open a Flickr account before coming to class (one account per group)

Assignment adopted from David Silver and Howard Rhiengold.

Goals:

• To learn some early basics of flickr and visual storytelling.
• To learn about tagging in general and tagging images in particular.
• To learn how to learn new tools quickly and independently.

Assignment:

• Each team should have a digital camera and cable or card reader for transferring photographs to computer.
• Each team has a half hour to take pictures of the Bloomington campus that tell some kind of story. Take many pictures and select 5-10.
• Upon return to the classroom, teams have another half hour to upload the pictures to the Flickr account created for this class, tag the photos, and arrange them into a set that tells a story — title the set.
• Post the link to a slideshow and put it in your blog post for that day.
• In your blog, describe your experience with the assignment: What kind of preperation did you do? Was Flickr difficult to use? In what ways do you think Flickr would be an effective tool in creating user-generated content and sharing that content with others? Could this tool be used as a citizen-based photojournalism tool? Why or why not? Explain by referring to the readings of the day.

Read
How Flickr single-handedly invented collaborative photojournalism
More on Flickr-powered collaborative photojournalism
Flickr Fun
What is social bookmarking?
Flickr Changes Lives, Launches Photog Careers

Poaching Stories:

Week 7

February 18 Monday:
“Get a Life,” Textual Poachers, Henry Jenkins

View:
Trekkies on dating service (MikeyNoLikey.com)
Defending Trekkies
Galaxy Quest movie trailer

Browse
Encyclopedia Dramatica

February 20 Wednesday:
“Get a Life,” Textual Poachers, Henry Jenkins (continued)
"It's a Wrap! Ernie Cline Has Written the Ultimate Star Wars Fan Movie" http://www.wired.com/entertainment/hollywood/magazine/16-04/ff_fanboy

View
Star Wars Kid
Greenscreen challenge in retrospect
“iPod + Colbert,”
“Stephen Colbert vs. Rancor”
“Stephen Colbert vs Gay Super Clones”
“Stephen Colbert Stars in Battle of Wills”
“Stephen, Qui Gon and Obi Wan vs. Darth Maul”
“Colbert Wars”
“Lego Colbert Green Screen Challenge”
“NEW! Colbert attacked by Gay People. *greenscreen challenge*”
“Green Screen Challenge Win”
“colbert report edit challenge movie”
“Stephen Colbert’s Dream”(click on the more button and look for the video if not already on the page)

Week 8

February 25 Monday:
Short essay, Group A, due
“Brownian Motion: Women, Tactics, and Technology,” Constance Penley, e-reserve
“Beyond Dream Press,” http://beyonddreamspress.com/history.htm

Browse:
“All ages Kirk/Spock Archive,” http://www.thyla.com/

View:
"Star Trek + Nine Inch Nails=Closer"
“Kirk/Spock- If Kirk Were Gay”
“Star Trek Picard/Q- If You Were Gay”
“Brokeback Enterprise - Star Trek Brokeback Mountain Parody”
“Broke Trek - a Star Trek Brokeback Mountain parody”
“Broke Back: The Next Generation” “Hee Haw: The Next Generation”
“Star Trek Sex”

February 27 Wednesday:
“Transmedia Storytelling 101,” Henry Jenkins, http://www.henryjenkins.org/2007/03/transmedia_storytelling_101.html

Cloverfield, presentation by Seth Tober (MovieFanatic)

Recommended
Selections from “Spoiling Survivor: The Anatomy of Knowledge Community” Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins, e-reserve

Viral Stories

Week 9

March 3 Monday:
Short essay, Group B, due_
“The Secret World of Lonelygirl,” Joshua Davis, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/lonelygirl.html
“’Lonely Girl’ (and Friends) Just Wanted a Movie Deal,” Virginia Heffernan and Tom Zeller, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/12/technology/12cnd-lonely.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
“Peircing the Veil of Lonelygirl15,” Associated Press, http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2006/09/71780

View
"Fans Help Story Evolve," http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?id=1540927&vid=108042
"Authenticity on the Tube"
Purple Monkey
The DanielBeast
Too Dangerous
"LisaNova does Lonelygirl15"
"LonelyGirl15 Song"
"YouTube parodies – Lonelygirl15"
“Daniel Dumped Me”
“Winning Daniel Back”
“My Surprise for Daniel”
The #1 Eternal Songs Of the Hymn Of One
"RE: Lonelygirl15 ceremony"
"lonelygirl15 Song / Video parody / lonelygirl: DEE"
The Anti-Jonas Campaign

Recommended
"The YouTube? effect," Bob Garfield, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/youtube.html
"YouTube? Kills," Rick Munarriz, http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2006/09/21/youtube-kills.aspx

March 5 Wednesday:
MIDTERM

Week 10

March 8-March 16: Spring Break

Amateur Creation (or the incessant production of massive junk)

Week 11

March 17 Monday:
“The Noble Amateur,” The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen
"Time's Person of the Year: You," Lev Grossman http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
"Google plans YouTube? antipiracy tool for September," Juan Carlos Perez, http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/27/Google-plans-YouTube-antipiracy-tool-for-September_1.html
"Contributors on YouTube? May Share Advertising Revenue," Miguel Helft, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/05/technology/05tube.html?ex=1336017600&en=99bbe5d0ee4a69b5&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

View
Andrew Keen in Colbert Report
Wikiality
Elephant Vasectomies - Colbert Report
Wikilobbying
Jimmy Wales on Colbert Report

Browse
go2web20
LolCat Bible Translation Project

Recommended
“Truth and Lies,” The Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen, e-reserve

The Construction of Virtual Utopias: Rethinking identity, gender, and sex

March 19 Wednesday:
“Introduction,” The Virtual Community, Howard Rheingold

Recommended
“A Daily Life in Cyberspace: How the Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place,” The Virtual Community, Howard Rheingold, e-reserve

Week 12

March 24 Monday:
"Multi-User? Dungeons and Alternate Identities," The Virtual Community, Howard Rheingold, e-reserve

March 26 Wednesday:
"Multi-User? Dungeons and Alternate Identities," The Virtual Community, Howard Rheingold, e-reserve, (continued)

Week 13

March 31 Monday:
"Tinysex and Gender Trouble," Life on the Screen, Sheryl Turkle, e-reserve

Recommended
“Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community,” Judith S. Donath http://smg.media.mit.edu/people/Judith/Identity/IdentityDeception.html

April 2 Wednesday:
“A Rape in Cyberspace,” High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, Julian Dibbell

Recommended
“Robocopulation: Sex Times Technology Equals the Future,” Escape Velocity, Mark Dery, e-reserve

Week 14

April 7 Monday:
"Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers," Julian Dibbell, http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons
“Shiplog of the U.S.S. Prokofy Neva,” http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/shiplog-uss-prokofy.php
“Season’s Greetings,” http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/seasons-greetings.php
"War in Christmas Time" http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/war-christmas-town.php?page=1

Browse:
"The Something Awful Forums," http://forums.somethingawful.com/
"4chan," http://www.4chan.org/

View
Avatar Heroes, Daily Show http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=165604&title=avatar-heroes
Metanomics Colbert Challenge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvf2n_wa4Rk

Recommended
"Architecture and Vice," Dave Thomas, http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_4/23-Architecture-and-Vice.2

April 9 Wednesday:
"Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers," Julian Dibbell, http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/magazine/16-02/mf_goons (continued)
“Alien Invasion,” http://www.somethingawful.com/d/second-life-safari/alien-invasion.php

WoW presentation by Zack Cockrom

View:
“Second Life: The Virtual Utopia of the Future”

Social Networks Fad: Or selling yourself online

Week 15

April 14 Monday:
Short essay, Group B, due
Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Hearth MySpace?,” danah boyd, http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html
“Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing Community into being on Social Network Sites, danah boyd, http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_12/boyd/index.html
"Twitter is my Village," Laura Fitten, http://pistachioconsulting.com/blog/?p=172
“The Global Sympathetic Audience” New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/fashion/04twitter.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Recommended Readings:
“A History of the Social Web,” Trebor Scholz, http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms/2007/9/26/a-history-of-the-social-web.html
“Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship,” danah boyd, http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html

April 16 Wednesday:
“How to Lose Your Job in Your Own Time,” Randall Stross, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30digi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
“Facebook’s ‘Privacy Trainwreck,’: Exposure, Invasion, and Drama, danah boyd, http://www.danah.org/papers/FacebookAndPrivacy.html
“Facebook's "opt-out" precedent,” danah boyd, http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/12/11/facebooks_optou.html
“Zuckerberg Saves Face, Apologizes For Beacon,” Erick Schonfeld, http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/05/zuckerberg-saves-face-apologies-for-beacon/
"About Facebook" http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010608F.shtml
"Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?" http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/ff_scraping?currentPage=1
"MySpace? Bug Leaks 'Private' Teen Photos to Voyeurs," Kevin Poulsen http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/01/myspace
"MySpace? Quietly Fixes Bug that Gave Voyeurs Access to Teens' Private Photos," Kevin Poulsen http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/myspace-quietly.html
"Should Web Giants Let Startups Use the Information They Have About You?" Josh McHugh?, http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-01/ff_scraping

Dark side of the Internet: Cybercrime

Week 16

April 21 Monday:
Short essay, Group A, due
"Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe," Joshua Davis, http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia
"Homeland Security Tests Response to Cyber Attack" (audio file) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88732691
“Murder on MySpace?,” Noah Shachtman, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.12/murderblog.html
“An IM infatuation Turned to Romance. Then the Truth Came Out,” Nadya Labi, http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/15-09/ff_internetlies
"Parents: Cyber Bullying Led to Teen's Suicide," http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Story?id=3882520
“Overprotective parenting and bullying: Who is to blame for the suicide of Megan Meier?” danah boyd http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/12/05/overprotective.html
“Who Killed Miss Norway?” Tracy Spaight, http://dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/04/14/who_killed_miss_norway/index.html

April 23 Wednesday: Farewell
Twitter writing assignment, due on Oncourse by 5:00PM