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JOMC 191.3 -- Blogging, We the Media and Virtual Communities


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Tuesday August 30 -- Class Introduction.

Begin to define 'community' and to define questions

For next meeting, read "Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community and Culture" in "Into the Blogosphere"

Thursday September 1 -- Introduction to Blogs and community

Community is best defined as a network of social relations marked by mutuality and emotional bonds. - Thomas Bender. Community and Social Change in America.

A real community need not consist of people who are perpetually together; but it must consist of people, who precisely because they are comrades, have mutual access to one another and are ready for one another. Martin Buber. Paths to Utopia

OED on Community

For next meeting, read "Blogs as Virtual Communities: Identifying a Sense of Community in the Julie/Julia Project" and "Imagining the Blogosphere:

An Introduction to the Imagined Community of Instant Publishing" in "Into the Blogosphere"

Tuesday September 6 -- Discuss Blogs and Communities

For next meeting, read "Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog"

And "Culture Clash: Journalism and the Communal Ethos of the Blogosphere" in "Into the Blogosphere"

Thursday September 8 -- Discuss Blogosphere readings

For next meeting, begin "We the Media" by reading the Introduction and From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond

Tuesday September  13 -- Introduction to We the Media and to Dan Gillmor and the Bayosphere

For next meeting, read The Read-Write Web and The Gates Come Down

Thursday September 15

For next meeting, read Newmakers Turn the Tables and The Consent of the Governed

Tuesday September 20

For next meeting, read Professional Journalists Join the Conversation and The Former Audience Joins the Party

Thursday September 22

For next meeting, read Next Steps and Trolls, Spin, and the Boundaries of Trust

Tuesday September 27

For next meeting, read Here Comes the Judges (and Lawyers) and The Empire Strikes back

Thursday September 29

For next meeting, read Making Our Own News and Epilogue

Also read Mark Granovetter's Strength of Weak Ties

Tuesday October 4 -- Summarize We the Media and prepare for Jimbo Wales visit

For October 13, read the Forward, Preface and Part 1 of The Internet and Everyday Life

Thursday October 6 -- Jimbo Wales of wikimedia/wikipedia visit

Saturday October 8 -- Greensboro's Converge Conference

Tuesday October 11 -- Brian Russell on Podcasting visit

Thursday October 13 The Internet and Everyday Life

For next meeting, read Chaper 10 Capitalizing on the Net

Tuesday October 18 Capitalizing on the Net

For next meeting, read Chapter 12 The Not So Global Village of Netville

Thursday October 20 -- Fall Break

Tuesday October 25 The Not So Global Village of Netville

For next meeting, read Chapter 13 Email, Gender and Personal Relationships

Thursday October 27 Email, Gender and Personal Relationships

For next meeting, read Chapter 14 Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces

Tuesday November 1 -- Red Hat Symposium on IP and Innovation

Thursday November 3 Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces

For next meeting, read Preece (1 -- 4)

Tuesday November 8 Looking at online communities, sociability and usability

Look at Greensboro News and Record blogs

Thursday November 10 John Robinson of the Greensboro News and Record

For next meeting, read Preece (5 -- 6)

Tuesday November 15 What research says about Interpersonal Communications and Groups

For next meeting, read Preece (7 -- 9)

Thursday November 17 Developing online communities part 1

For next meeting, read the rest of Preece (10 -- 12)

Tuesday November 22 Developing online communities part 2 and summarizing Preece

Thursday November 24 -- Thanksgiving

Tuesday November 29 -- Your presentations

Thursday December 1 - Your presentations

Tuesday December 6 - Your presentations

Thursday December 8 - Your presentations


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