thursday, march 24, 2005
Read Castells; Wellman, "Computer Networks as Social Networks;" and Wellman, "Designing the Internet" (DCP)
tuesday, march 29, 2005
Read first part of Connected
thursday, march 31, 2005
Finish reading Connected
In the following groups, compile a list of definitions and descriptions of "network" (or network society) from the assigned reading. Send these to our class email list to be compiled.
Castells: Mary & Geof
Part I of Shaviro: Marc & Jodi
Part II of Shaviro: Jeremy, Wendy, Juliette
tuesday, april 5, 2005
Read Rebecca Blood, "Weblogs: A History and Perspective"; Julian Dibbell, "Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man"; Steven Johnson, "Use the Blog, Luke"; danah boyd, Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice"; Jill Walker, "Links and Power"; Skim the Pew Internet and American Life Project's The State of Blogging Report
thursday, april 7, 2005
Read "Blogging as Social Action"; "Women and Children Last"; "Structure and Evolution of Blogspace"; "Why We Blog"; "Semantic Blogging"; "How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community" (DCP)
tuesday, april 12, 2005
Read ; Tom Coates' definition of social software and addendum; Shirky's "Social Software and the Politics of Groups" and "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality"; Wired's "The Long Tail"; boyd's "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Network"; Agre's "Networking on the Network"
thursday, april 14, 2005
Read "Technorati Tags"; Weinberger's "Taxonomies and Tags"; Lodwick's "Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain"; Mathes's "Folksonomies--Cooperative Classification and Communication"; Sterling's "Order out of Chaos"; Shirky's "The Semantic Web"; Gladwell et al's "Identity and Search in Social Networks" (DCP)
Good base article for students to read regarding new and emerging literacies