Class Schedule

(in process)

August 26 - intro to class and to vernacular video.
Vote on assignment design and due dates options before class

View and comment on Vernacular Video in Culture and Education - Howard Rheingold and The Machine is Us/ing Us - Michael Wesch before class.

August 31 - Citizen Media - Skype visit by Dan Gillmor
View and comment on “Why media consumers, not just creators, need to be active users” before class.

Primary responders: Christian and Emily

September 2 - Network Literacy - Parts One and Two. View and comment on Howard Rheingold’s Network Literacy Part One: The Internet’s architecture of freedom and Network Literacy Part Two: Sarnoff, Metcalfe, Reed’s Laws before class.

Primary responders: Daniel and Anna

Sept 9 - New Journalism - Jay Rosen in several brief bits gets straight to the point as his titles show. View and comment on
Advice to Young Bloggers
Journalism, Redefined
New Content Models
What Journalism Schools Do Wrong
before class

Primary responders: Matthew and Caroline

Sept 14 - Organizing without Organizations? View and comment on Clay Shirky’s talks:
Here Comes Everybody
How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history
before class

Primary responders: Courtney and David R

Sept 16 - Counterculture to Cyberculture - Skype visit with Fred Turner
View and comment on “From Counterculture to Cyberculture: The Legacy of the Whole Earth Catalog” and “Counterculture to Cyberculture - Fred Turner and Valley Zen” before class.

Primary responders: Meredith and Brandon

Sept 21 - YouTube Anthropology - View and comment on An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube - Michael Wesch before class

Primary responders: Alyssa and Ian

Sept 23 - Social Networking. Skype visit with Barry Wellman. View and comment on Connected Lives: The New Social Network Operating System and a brief TV interview with Wellman on the same subject before class.

Primary responders: Christine and Robert

Sept 28 - Remix Culture. View and comment on Larry Lessig’s talk “Remix Culture” before class.

Primary responders: Anna and David R

Sept 30 - Remix. RiP or Good Copy, Bad Copy Documentaries on Remix Culture

Primary responders: Dan and Courtney

Oct 5 - Remix. Music, Borrowing and Law - Visit with James Boyle
View and comment on “A Song’s Tale: Mashups, Borrowing and the Law” before class.

Primary responders: David C and Robert

Oct 7 - Cyberculture. View and comment on Converegence Culture (update) by Henry Jenkins before class.

Primary responders: Matt and Caroline

Oct 12 - Cyberculture - View and comment on YouTube to YouNiversity by Henry Jenkins before class.

Primary responders: John and Meredith

Oct 14 - Social Networking. View and comment on “Small Worlds and Six Degrees: Influential or Insignificant?” with Duncan Watts before class.

Primary responders: Brandon and Emily

Oct 19 - Marketing in social networks. View and comment The Tribes We Lead and Standing Out by Seth Godin before class.

Primary responders: Alyssa and Ian

Oct 21 - 21st Century Literacies. Skype visit with Howard Rheingold. View and comment 21st Century Literacies before class.

Primary responders: Christian

Oct 26 - Citizen Journalism and New Journalism at YouTube

Go to http://www.youtube.com/user/reporterscenter

You need not visit every video, but instead select at least 4 videos to view. They may be from the same playlist or from several different ones.

View and comment on your selections using some of the Network Literacy skills discussed by Rheingold and feel free to apply what you already know about reporting in you comments. If you learn from the videos that’s worth a comment too.

Yes there is a lot there. That’s where your use of Network Literacy and your own needs comes in.

Feel free to use more than 2 minutes if you feel that is necessary.

Post your videos here http://ibiblio.org/pjones/jomc449/wordpress/?p=294

Oct 28 - Brainz! View and comment on Gary Small’s iBrain: Your Brain on Google

Nov 2 - Brainz! View and comment on Robin Dunbar’s What Makes Us Human?

Nov 4 - Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age - Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Nov 9 - True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

Nov 11 - Social Networking. Skype visit with danah boyd. View and comment on MyFriends, MySpace

Nov 16 - The Future of Internet and How to Stop It: Cerf, Zittrain, Lessig and The Web as random acts of kindness: Jonathan Zittrain

Nov 18 - Futures of the Web Web 2.0 Summit 09: Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O’Reilly and Kevin Kelly: Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web (2007)

Nov 23 - Your presentations (3) Christian Yoder (World of Warcraft); Daniel Chen and David Reynolds (”Lost” online communities)

Nov 30- Your presentations (3) Anna Carrington; Alyssa Stepusin (http://forums.hardwarelogic.com); Ian Urbaitis (www.sputnikmusic.com)

Dec 2- Your presentations (3) Courtney Patricio (Hi5); Brandon Staton (Fantasy Football); Meredith Sammons (myartspace.com)

Dec 7- Your presentations (3) Emily Stephenson (BlueNC); Caroline McCain (Tumblr); Robert McKeever (trianglemommies)

Dec 9 - Your presentations (3) Matthew Lynley (4chan /b/); John Rudisill (Metafilter)

Dec 17 - Absolutely totally complete projects due by 5 pm!