Course Outline and Assigned Readings

July 12
Cindy

Intro and Syllabus, range of topics
SXSW interactive, Association of Internet Researchers, Wired, Pew Center Studies, US Department of Commerce Reports, UT International Symposium in Online Journalism, Nieman Reports

Hacks/Hackers Glossary

Read before class: Tim Berners-Lee, Weaving the Web- pw protected
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Technology review - pw protected

Wikipedia - Tim Berners-Lee
A Little History of the World Wide Web

Video-The Internet: Behind the Web

July 13
News: Cindy

Lead Discussion:
Cindy

Defining New Media

Dennis, Baron, “From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies” in Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies, 1999
Negroponte, Nicholas, Being Digital, 1996, handout
Manovich, Lev, "New Media User's Guide," 1999, pw protected

Mac v. PC

25 Years of Mac
Geek Power, Wired 2010
Steve Jobs, CEO of the Decade, Fortune
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong, Wired
Video Welcome to Macintosh

Defining New Media presentation

Wordpress handout

Supplemental:

Poynter New Media Timeline
Tim Berners-Lee TED Talk
Negroponte TED Talk - 2008; Negroponte TED Talk - 1984
EPIC 2015

July 14
News: Veronica & Maria

Lead Discussion: Josh & TC

Theories of New Media

Bush, Vannevar, “As We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
Wikipedia - Vannevar Bush
Englebart, Douglas, from Augmenting Human Intellect (1962), read Sections I and III
video of demonstration - we'll watch a segment in class
Wikipedia - Doug Engelbart
McLuhan, Marshall from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964, Read “Introduction” and “The Medium is the Message.” pw protected
Wikipedia - Marshall McLuhan
Rogers, Everett M., "Diffusion of Innovations," Chapter 1, 2003 pw protected

Videos

July 19
News: Dale & Lesley

Lead Discussion: Veronica & William

New Media Research

Tomasello, Lee & Baer, New Media Research Publication Trends and Outlets in Communication, 1990-2006 - requires NetID and pw; download pdf
Kiousis, Spiro, "Interactivity: A Concept Explication," New Media and Society, 2002 - requires NetID and pw; download pdf
McMillan, Sally & Downes, Edward, "Defining Interactivity: A Qualitative Identification of Key Dimensions, New Media and Society, 2000. -requires NetID and pw; download pdf
McMillan, The Microscope and the Moving Target, JMCQ, Spring 2000 - requires NetID and pw; download pdf

July 20

News: Brittany & Monique

Lead Discussion: Lesley & Jesse

Browsers

The History of Web Browsers
Video: Browser Wars - We'll watch in class, but you can also review here

Search and Search Engines

Googlemania - Wired, special issue; Read surviving IPO fever
Wired Interview with Eric Schmidt, April 2007
Google and the Wisdom of Clouds, Business Week, Dec. 13, 2007
Secret of Googlenomics, Wired, 2009
How Google's Algorithm Rules the Web, Wired 2010
How Yahoo Blew It, Wired,2007
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Tells Michael Arrington to F Off at Tech Crunch Disrupt
Pew Center Search Engine Use
Read: Excerpt from What Would Google Do?
Time, Search Engine Rivals: Google vs. Bing
Video: Search - We'll watch in class, but you can also review here

Supplementary:
Google Documentary

July 21

News: Jesse & William

Lead Discussion: Ryan & Lydia

Social Media

Facebook Grows Up, Newsweek, August 27, 2007
How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform, Wired Oct. 6, 2007
Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out, Wired 2009
Pew Reports
- The Future of Social Relations
- Adults and Social Network Websites
The Year the Audience Keynoted - Wired 2008
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live - Time, 2009
Why Twitter Will Endure - David Carr, NY Times, 2010
Mob Rule. How Users Took Over Twitter
The Twitter Explosion - American Journalism Review, 2009
Seems Stupid Until You Try It: Press Coverage of Twitter, 2006-2009

Video
People Power - We'll watch in class, but you can also review here
Daily Show: Twitter Frenzy
Twouble With Twitters
SXSW Newmark/Wales Interview
Twitter in Plain English - video
TED Talk - Clay Shirkey - How Social Media Can Make History

July 26

News: Christina & Ryan

Lead Discussion: Monique & Sarah

Cyberculture Research

Turkle, Sherry, Life on the Screen, Introduction: Identity in the Age of the Internet pw protected
Jenkins, Convergence Culture, read Intro & Chpt 2 - pw protected
Ellison, Steinfield, Lampe, The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(4), 2007 - requires NetID and pw; download pdf
Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship, JCMC, 2007
Revisiting the Story So Far, JCMC, 2008
Rheingold, Howard, "Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many (Chapter 7)," in Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, 2002, pw protected
Rheingold, Howard, The Virtual Community, 1998, read Intro. and Chapter 1
Castells, Manual, The Internet Galaxy, "The Culture of the Internet," 2001 - pw protected

July 27

News: Trey & Lydia

Lead Discussion: Taylor & Brittany

Mobile

Wired's iPad edition goes live
The Mobile Difference, Pew 2009
Behind Foursquare and Gowalla: The Great Checkin Battle, Wired UK, 2010

Videos - we'll watch in class
Planet of the Apps
Intro and Texthog.com
Greg Grunberg and Yowza

Business Models and Online Branding

Anderson, Chris, The Long Tail, Wired, October 2004
Free, Chris Anderson, Wired 2008
The New New Economy, Wired 2009
The Good Enough Revolution, Wired 2009
Why Craigslist is Such a Mess, Wired 2009
Shirky on "Here Comes Everybody", NPR, 2009
Shirky, "Cognitive Surplus," Nieman Reports, 2010
Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk - excerpt - will provide in class
Alex Bogusky Leaves Advertising, NY Times, 2010
Fast Company Series on Bogusky leaving

Videos - we'll watch in class
Gary Vaynerchuk: Legacy is Greater Than Currency
GaryVee on Work/Balance
GaryVee and Kathy Sierra

July 28

News: Sarah & Josh

Lead Discussion: Whit & Jordan

Legal Issues

Lessig, Code 2.0, 2006- download (or here), Read Chpt. 10 Intellectual Property
Lessig, The Future of Ideas - download, (or here) Read Chpt. 1 Free and Chpt. 2 Building Blocks: Commons and Layers
Lessig, Lawrence, "How I Lost the Big One," Legal Affairs, March/April 2004.
How I Learned to Love Larry, Hilary Rosen in Wired, November 2004.
Lawrence Lessig Discussing Remix on NPR's Fresh Air, 2008 - Listen to before class