JOMC 391.1 Calendar

August / September / October / November/ December

August


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Class Introduction.
Begin to define 'community' and to define questions

For next meeting, read Rheingold's Virtual Community
Introduction through Chapter 4 "Grassroots Groupminds"

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September


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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1 - Labor Day Holiday 2

OED on Community
Discuss Rheingold reading
Would you define community as Rheingold does?
What is Groupmind?
About the Farm
More Farm History
Steve Gaskin

J. C. R. Licklider
Lick, Kleinrock and Taylor

Community (Gemeinschaft) and Society (Gesellschaft) - Tonnies (not Durkheim)

For next meeting, read Rheingold's VC
Chapter 5 "Multi-User Dungeons and Alternative Identities" through Chapter 9 "Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists"



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Pre-existing schedule conflict (no class)
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Discuss Rheingold reading -- now with international and political questions

Tempora Heroica - 10 years of MUDding and still going strong

FreeNode aka Open Projects - An IRC based Community of Practice

Vernor Vinge's True Names The first cyberpunk/cyberspace story. It has obvious and predictive links to MUDs, IRC and virtual worlds.

For next meeting, complete Rheingold's VC
Chapter 10 "Disinformocracy" through Afterward with special attention to Chapter 11.




10 11
International Activities and Social Movements in Rheingold

TWICS in Japanese
TWICS in English
COARA in Japanese
CalvaCom in French
CIX in the UK
Frank Odasz of Big Sky Telegraph
RTPnet - local FreeNet
Association for Community Networking
EarthTrust
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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15 16

Rheingold on Rheingold after nearly 10 years.
Reflecting on "Disinformocracy" and how Rheingold reviews his critics

Reviewing Rheingold and Virtual Community ourselves

Begin Rheingold's Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution
These readings will be on the Web and URL given in class.
Read first chapters - Shibuya Epiphany and Technologies of Cooperation

Bentham's Panopticon
Foucault on the Panopticon from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Habermas Links (recently updated)
Habermas Forum
Does the Internet Create Democracy? a thesis (1996 - 2000) using Habermas and Rheingold by Alinta Thornton
Barry Wellman's publications

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


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Begin Smart Mods discussion.
Are Smart Mobs communities?
How do social networks relate to community?

For next meeting, read Smart Mobs
"Computation Nations and Swarm Supercomputers" and "The Era of Sentient Things"

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Further Rheingold discussion
Seti@home
Global Grid
Napster
OpenNap
Gnutella
Steve Mann and Wearcam.org
Nanomanipulator
Warren Robinett
Dan Bricklin on "Cornucopia of the Commons"
David Bollier on "Cornucopia of the Commons"


"The Evolution of Reputation" and "Wireless Quilts"

24 25

Returning to Rheingold and Smart Mobs

Larry Lessig's Odessey
Creative Commons
Alexa Internet
Internet Archive and WayBack Machine
Epinions
everything2
H2G2 - HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy
WikiPedia
Slashdot
kuro5hin
eBay
David Reed on Open Spectrum
Burning Man
Hedy Lamarr
Bluetooth
Wireless (802.11b) at UNC
Warchalking in /. and Nokia's complaints

For next meeting, complete Smart Mobs

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Discussion: Smart Mobs, Communities, and Cooperation



October


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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday


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complete Rheingold's Smart Mobs and discuss the Rheingoldian view. Pay attention to the Grid and Wireless portions as well as any important parts that we may have elided so far.
I will talk about our projects also during this time. Note that many of last year's projects are available on the syllabus.

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Discussion of Social Capital - Part One Theory and Research

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field trip to meadowmont coffee shop to talk with John Hipp of sociology will talk about his preliminary finding on his community at meadowmont survey Please Read Social Capital - Part 2 Conceptual Extensions except "Cyberworks and the Global Village" in preparation.

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Brian Carroll on Meadowmont.org

Social Capital - Conceptual Extensions
For next meeting, complete Social Capital "Cyberworks and the Global Village" and "the Future of the Theory"

Presentation suggestions:

  • choose a virtual community
  • describe the community in terms we've used in the class (relate to Rheingold where appropriate)
  • evaluate the community's potentials and inherent conflicts and resolutions
  • describe barriers to community growth that may exist how does the community allow for:
    • growth of social capital (see Lin for terms)
    • growth of knowledge capital
    • practice of communion
  • are there hierarchies in place? are they flexible or fluid?
  • how does the interface (see Preece) allow for sociability or block social interactions?

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Social Capital and Virtual Community - does it work and if so how and why?

For next meeting, read Preece's Online Community - Part 1
"Getting Acquainted with Online Communities"

Last year's presentations:

Anton on Blog Together: How personal publishing software fosters online family
MovableType and Zuiker Chronicles
see also:
History of the Zuiker Chronicles
About Movable Type
about blogging
Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg
The Tipping Point

Will Cross on Buffy
and her fans
and the switch from WB to UPN
and how her old community
is being brought back to life
not once, twice

Cassandra and Glenn (part 1)
Newspapers and Discussion Boards
Results Table
Conclusions

Michael O'Connell on IBM developerWorks
Some context/background info: about dW
3-yr status report and editor's note

* "RoboCode," popular interactive game that teaches programming and prompted various contests and live competitions, as well as extensive forum activity
* Discussion forums
New interface: New Interface
Another look at the new interface
Old Interface
* Offline/live events


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Critical Discussion of "Getting Acquainted with Online Communities"

For next meeting, read Preece Part 2 "Developing Online Communities"


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Fall Break Begins
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Break Ends
27 28
Jock Lauderer from the Carolina Community Media Project
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Critical Discussion of

"Developing Online Communities"


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November


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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday





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Discussion of Preece

Read Granovetter
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Granovetter discussion
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Jackson Fox on B3TA
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Elaine Sieff on Hyacinth Gardens
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Jason Griffey
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Jean Ferguson
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Justin Watt
26Thanksgiving break begins
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December


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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
1 Thanksgiving break ends 2
Ruby Sinreich of Orange Politics to visit our class and talk with us about her blog and about orangepolitics.org

about Ruby: Ruby Sinreich has lived in Chapel Hill for over 24 years. She volunteers on a variety of local government and nonprofit boards. She has worked professionally as a nonprofit technologist since she graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1993. She has been blogging for over a year at Ruby's Rants & Randomness

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Instructor: Paul Jones 213 Manning Hall pjones@ibiblio.org 962-7600
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