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