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on Community J. C. R. Licklider Community (Gemeinschaft) and Society (Gesellschaft) - Tonnies (not Durkheim) For next meeting, read Rheingold's VC |
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8 | 9 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
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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 Bentham's
Panopticon 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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Lessig's Odessey For next meeting, complete Smart Mobs |
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Rheingoldian view. Pay attention to the Grid and Wireless portions as well
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Discussion of Social Capital - Part One Theory and Research |
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13 | 14 Brian Carroll on Meadowmont.org Social Capital - Conceptual Extensions Presentation suggestions:
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15 | 16 Social Capital and Virtual Community - does it work and if so how and why? For next meeting, read Preece's Online Community - Part 1 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
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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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