Week 1
January 3
Weeks 1-4
Fail Early, Fail Often: Scenes from a Global Internet
Introduction to the course goals, policies, expectations, and technologies.
Let's Play!
Watch Ze Frank "Web Playroom"
Most of your class time this week will involve you playing with Audacity and MovieMaker (PC) or Garage Band and iMovie (Mac). We will be using this software all semester to create projects to upload to YouTube, so use this time and the tutorials provided to experiment and play.
If you have a PC:
Download Audacity (Beta version for PC) and download the LAME MP3 Encoder for Audacity. Then take the Audacity Tutorial.
You should already have MovieMaker as a part of your Windows Office Suite. Take the MovieMaker Tutorial.
If you have a Mac:
Watch the Garage Band Tutorials and the iMovie Tutorials
Week 2
January 10
Begin Digital Autobiography Project
Read "The Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism"
Download and Play "Hush"
Week 3
January 17
Watch Jonathan Zittrain's "The Web as Random Acts of Kindness"
Watch Jane McGonigal "Gaming Can Make a Better World"
Read about Peacemaker at Wikipedia
Watch the GamePlay Trailer for Peacemaker
Play Ayiti: The Cost of Living
Watch the Trailer for the Cat and the Coup and then watch the short video about the game.
Week 4
January 24
Peer Review Digital Autobiography Projects
Watch Gordon Brown "Writing a Web for Global Good"
Watch Evgeny Morozov "How the Internet Strengthens Dictatorships"
Watch John Hodgman explain Net Neutrality on the Daily Show
Watch Tim Wu explain Net Neutrality on Geek Entertainment TV
Week 5
January 31
Weeks 5-10
"Friend Me": Identity 2.0
Read Wikipedia "On the Interent, nobody knows you're a dog"
Read Josh Katz "Virtual 'Maple Story' Murder Reveals Online Lives Gone Too Far"
Launch Your Persona (click the red button at the top of the page)
Read Danah Boyd "Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8" (pdf in Moodle)
Week 6
February 7
Begin Emerging Media Projects
Post Your Digital Autobiography Online
Respond to Your Classmates' Digital Autobiographies
Week 7
February 14
Watch Brenda Laurel On Making Games for Girls
Read Zach Waggoner "Idols of Lust: Creatures of Whims and Will"
Watch Ali Carr-Chellman "Gaming to Re-Engage Boys in Learning"
Insert one of your discussion forum responses into the Hacker Factor
Read Noam Cohen "Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia's Contributors List"(pdf in Moodle)
Week 8
February 21
Winter Break!
Week 9
February 28
Read Sherri Qualters "Discrimination Case Opens Door to Internet ADA Claims"
Read Declan McCullagh "Judge: Disabilities Act Doesn't Cover Web"
Watch "A World Denied"
Read Jonathan Alexander "Out of the Closet and Into the Network" (pdf in Moodle)
Read Lynne Hillier and Lyn Harrison "Building Realities Less Limited than their Own" (pdf in Moodle)
Week 10
March 7
Peer Review Emerging Media Group Projects
Read Maurice Berger "Race in Cyberspace"
Read Beth E. Kolko "Erasing @race: Going White in the (Inter)Face" (pdf in Moodle)
Week 11
March 14
Weeks 11-14: I can haz collaboration & community
Begin Group Internet Ethnography Projects
Upload Your Group's Emerging Media Project
Respond to Your Classmates' Emerging Media Projects
Watch Michael Wesch "Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us"
Watch Michael Wesch "Information R/evolution"
Week 12
March 21
Watch Jimmy Wales "How a Ragtag Band Created Wikipedia"
Watch Clay Shirky "Institutions VS. Collaboration"
Watch Howard Rheingold "Way-New Collaboration"
Watch Christopher "moot" Poole "The Case for Anonymity Online"
Week 13
March 28
Watch Michel Bauwen's "Peer 2 Peer" (all links in Moodle)
Week 14
April 4
Peer Review Group Internet Ethnography Projects
Watch "50 Internet Memes in 100 Seconds"
Watch Clay Shirky "How Cognitive Surplus Will Change the World"
Watch Jesse Brown "Does the Internet Make You Dumber?"
Watch Michael Wesch "A Vision of Students Today"
Read Nicholas Carr "The Amorality of Web 2.0"
Watch Amber Case "We're All Cyborgs Now"
Week 15
April 11
Upload Your Individual Field Work Notebooks
Upload Your Group's Digital Ethnography
Watch and Respond to Your Classmates' Digital Ethnographies
