July 6
Cindy
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Intro and Syllabus, range of topics
SXSW interactive, Association
of Internet Researchers, Wired, Fast Company, 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
Robert Metcalfe - I-Programmer, 2011
Video: Did You Know 4.0
Video: The Machine is Us/ing Us
Video-The Internet: Behind the Web
Resources:
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July 11
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Online class Mondays!
Watch videos that relate to the material this week and participate in Facebook group chat. You must watch each video in its entireity and be ready to participate online. These videos will relate to the materials we will read and discuss in class for the rest of the week.
Videos:
Wordpress handout
Additional Resources:
Steve Jobs: CNBC Titans - you may be able to catch on cable over the next few weeks. |
July 12
News: Chelsea/Paige
Lead Discussion: Demond/Jacob |
Defining New Media and Theories
- Dennis, Baron, “From
Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies” in
Passions, Pedagogies and 21st Century Technologies, 1999
- Negroponte, Nicholas, Being Digital, 1996, pw protected
- Bush, Vannevar, “As
We May Think,” Atlantic Monthly, July 1945.
- Englebart, Douglas, from Augmenting
Human Intellect (1962),
read Sections I and III
video
of demonstration - we'll watch a segment in class
- McLuhan, Marshall from Understanding
Media: The Extensions of Man,
1964, Read “Introduction” and “The Medium is the
Message.” pw protected
- Rogers, Everett M., "Diffusion of Innovations," Chapter
1, 2003 pw protected
Mac v. PC
Resources:
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July 13
News: Sara/Elizabeth
Lead Discussion: Paige/Kelly |
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
Browsers
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July 18
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Online class Mondays!
Watch videos that relate to the material this week and participate in Facebook group chat. You must watch each video in its entireity and be ready to participate online. These videos will relate to the materials we will read and discuss in class for the rest of the week.
Videos:
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July 19
News: Melissa/Deborah
Lead Discussion: Scott/Bryttne |
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
- Larry Page Wants to Return Google to its Startup Roots, Wired April 2011
- Excerpt from What Would Google Do?
- Time, Search Engine Rivals: Google vs. Bing
- Pew Reports
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
- 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
- Pixie Dust and the Mountain of Mediocrity - Kathy Sierra - Gaping Void blog
- How Twitter Evolved From 2006-2011
- Pew Reports
Resources:
Extra Videos - we'll watch in class:
Social Media Revolution - from Erik Qualman, Socialnomics
Daily Show: Twitter Frenzy
Twouble With Twitters
SXSW
Newmark/Wales Interview
Twitter in Plain English
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July 20
News: Bryttne/Scott
Lead Discussion:Debra/Melissa |
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
- 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
Gender Online
Supplemental
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July 25
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Online class Mondays!
Watch videos that relate to the material this week and participate in Facebook group chat. You must watch each video in its entireity and be ready to participate online. These videos will relate to the materials we will read and discuss in class for the rest of the week.
Videos:
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July 26
News: Kelly/Julie
Lead Discussion: Elizabeth/Sara
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Mobile
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
- Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk Full Chapter 1 (5MB)- pw protected
- Alex Bogusky Leaves Advertising, NY Times, 2010
- Fast Company Series on Bogusky leaving
- How Kickstarter Became a Lab for Daring Prototypes and Ingenious Startups, Wired 2011
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July 27
News: Demond/Jacob
Lead Discussion: Julie/Chelsea
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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.
Legal Resources:
Music Sharing
Pew Center:
Music Resources
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Aug. 1
News: Cindy
Lead Discussion: Cindy
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This will be handled separately and not by the discussion team. Video Blog Assignment on Leadership Styles due by 5pm Aug. 1:
Online journalism
- From Convergence to Webvergence: Tracking the Evolution of Change of Broadcast-Print Partnerships Through the Lens of Change - JMCQ, 2009
- How Online Journalists Rank Importance of News Skills - Newspaper Research Journal, 2008
- Twittering the News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism, Journalism Practice, 2010
- Social Media and News as User Experience - in The Future of News, 2009 - pw protected
- The Online Journalism Skills That Get Jobs Poyner, March 4, 2008
- NY Times: Goosing the Gray Lady - from NY Magazine
- Lone Star Trailblazer: Texas Tribune - CJR, 2010
- The Journalist as Programmer & The Programmer Majored in English, Nieman Lab
- Approaching Data with a Beginner's Mind - UX Magazine
- Narrative Visualization: Telling Stories with Data
- Analyzing Data is the Future for Journalists
- When the Data Struts Its Stuff - NYT, 2011
- Guardian - Data Journalism: What It Is and How Do We Do It? - 2011
- Pew Center Studies:
Additional Resources
Videos (we'll watch some in class)
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Aug. 2
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We will meet at Austin American-Statesman for Hacks/Hackers meeting tonight. Details to come.
The content below is just fyi, I will discuss briefly on Aug. 1
Current and Future Issues - we may identify others throughout the semester
Online Media Design Website
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Aug. 3
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No class - work on papers. |
| Aug. 8 |
Term paper presentations |
