schedule
- Tuesday August 31
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introductions
your reflections on the universty and education
looking at media technologies
material properties
social/cultural
legal/control
activity: bulletin boards as social media
- Thursday Sept 2
- course overview, syllabus, policies
The Machine is Us/ing Us
discussion of bulletin boards activity
reading for next class:
New York Times Magazine, The Web Means the End of Forgetting by Jeffrey Rosen, 7/21/2010.
network topologies
- Tuesday Sept 7
- Reading:
New York Times Magazine, The Web Means the End of Forgetting by Jeffrey Rosen, 7/21/2010.
turn in reponse paper #1 (hard copy, beginning of class)
LECTURE SLIDES: Course Intro and Technical/Conceptual Foundations - Fall 2010
TOPIC: Network Topologies
TOPIC: The Internet, Networks and Protocols
Internet Explained (video)
packet switching demo (pbs)
TOPIC: Distributed Network as Organizational Model
1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial
FOR NEXT CLASS (Tuesday): Read Habermas
- Thursday Sept 9
- No Class
Rosh Hashana
- Tuesday Sept 14
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TOPIC: communications technologies and the public sphere
READ: Habermas, "The Public Sphere, an encyclopedia article" (1964)
Q: What are the preconditions for democracy?
SLIDES: Communications Technology and the Public Sphere
- Thursday Sept 16
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READ: Enzensberger, "Constituents of a Theory of the Media" (1970)
- Tuesday Sept 21
- Shirky - Here Comes Everybody
Chapters 1-4
- Thursday Sept 23
-
discussion + lecture (Rheingold)
- Tuesday Sept 28
- Shirky - Here Comes Everybody
Chapters 5-6
- Thursday Sept 30
- Shirky - Here Comes Everybody
Chapters 7-8
reading response paper #2 due