Social Web Media
Social Web Media : DMS 528/DMS 415 : Spring 2009Department of Media Study, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Al Larsen (alarsen [at] buffalo.edu)
| tentative outline | |
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| Week 1: intro to course | |
| Tues. 1/13 | course overview, syllabus, policies, network topologies, network protocols The Machine is Us/ing Us 1984 Apple's Macintosh Commercial Web 2.0 in Plain English |
| Thurs. 1/15 |
packet switching internet overview lecture slides possible clips: How the Internet Works Watch part of TCP / IP - An animated discusion Social Networking in Plain English |
| Week 2: social web media - where we are now | |
| Tues. 1/20 | Reading: Technologies of Cooperation - Rheingold (download pdf) Discussion Lecture: The Political Process and the Network (Barack 2.0?) (lecture slides) Lecture: from software to services and communities (lecture slides) |
| Thurs. 1/22 | Discussion - Technologies of Cooperation |
| Week 3: the public sphere & communication technologies | |
| Tues. 1/27 | Read: The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article - Jurgen Habermas Constituents of a Theory of the Media - Hans Magnus Enzensberger |
| Thurs. 1/29 | Enzensberger also read: NY Times magazine - "Revolution, Facebook-Style" Lecture: Constituents of a Theory of the Media - Hans Magnus Enzensberger - slides as pdf possible clips: public sphere w/ your host karl marx lyrics by Enzensberger Rheingold on collaboration |
| Week 4: "the commons" | |
| Tues. 2/3 | Smart Mobs - introduction + chapters 1-4 Mark Pesce clip |
| Thurs. 2/5 | lecture - Smart Mobs lecture slides as pdf
Mark Pesce - Hyperpolitics, American Style (VIDEO) |
| Week 5: identity and participation | |
| Tues. 2/10 | finish reading Smart Mobs Finish watching Mark Pesce lecture.... Mark Pesce - Hyperpolitics, American Style (VIDEO) Mark Pesce - Hyperpolitics, American Style (TEXT) Lecture... Smart Mobs, Flash Mobs, Snap Mobs... slides as PDF networked organzing, political activism FLASH MOBS FOR FUN & PROFIT FROZEN GRAND CENTRAL (Improv Everywhere) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwMj3PJDxuo BEST BUY (Improv Everywhere) http://vimeo.com/68614 http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/02/09/uk.station.flashmob/index.html FLASH MOBS FOR POLITICAL PROTESTS examples from Smart Mobs Phillipines STUDENT ACTIVISM AND PROTEST RIGHT NOW BACKGROUND/CONTEXT: MAY 1968 La Contestation MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY OCCUPATION - SOLIDARITY WITH GAZA MAN UNI - organizer video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UI_NsKOmr0 ROCHESTER NY http://lseoccupation.blogspot.com/2009/02/victory-for-rochester-university-in- usa.html FACEBOOK GROUPS SEARCH: "Support to Sussex University Occupation" "Manchester University Occupation - Solidarity with Gaza" "Support the Occupation at Queen Mary University" THE NEW SCHOOL IN EXILE (NYC) GREECE, DECEMBER 2008 FACEBOOK GROUP - SEARCH "Support the Greek Struggle" GREECE OFFICIALLY IN WAR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmfzvfSPWzw&feature=related GREECE RIOTS - BBC clip FROM PROTEST TO RIOT... HYPERCONNECTIVITY... THE INFORMATION BOMB... GREEK RIOTS SMS http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/greek-riots-facebook-twitter-and-sms/ GREECE TWITTER http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/113389/letter_from_athens:_greek_riots_and_the_news_media_in_the_age_of_twitter/ THE ECONOMIST - RIOTERS OF THE WORLD UNITE - WEB CAMS - http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12815678 SNAP MOBS? Patrick Meier PATRICK PHILIPPE MEIER http://irevolution.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/snap-mobs-of-the-world-unite-a-better-taxonomy/ |
| Thurs. 2/12 | first assignment due |
| Week 6: Property and Production: peer production / open source / copyright / intellectual property | |
| Tues. 2/17 | Quiz #1
READING ASSIGNMENT: Yochai Benkler - The Wealth of Networks, Chapter 3 (up until the heading "Peer Production of Information, Knowledge, and Culture Generally ") [note - this book is available online in several formats. Here are links to Chapter 3 in HTML format and PDF format.] |
| Thurs. 2/19 | possible topics include: history of copyright, remix culture, Napster, bit torrent, DMCA, DRM. fair use, Creative Commons |
| Week 7: | |
| Tues. 2/24 | Discuss: Here Comes Everybody - Clay Shirky (chapters 1 -4) email a suggested discussion topic to me by Monday evening 2nd Assignment handed out |
| Thurs. 2/26 | NO CLASS |
| Week 8: work: amateur or professional? | |
| Tues. 3/3 | second assignment due In-class discussion focusing on Shirky Chapters 5 - 7. Flash Mob - "managing participation" final paper example topics...
lecture/discusssion: professionalsim / "mass amateurization" / crowdsourcing role of the professional Clip: I'm going to let you do this one on spec... "the people formerly known as the audience" the people formerly known as employees...? crowdsourcing models: Shirky discuses crowdsourcing on pg. 75 (Shirky) Discussion Topics WBFO fundraising design the mug, vote on it and buy it??? Listener-Designed t-shirt contest 99designs iStockPhoto [[audio & video too]] pays 20-40% of download price [[$20 price = $4 to $8 payment to contributor]] uShip |
| Thurs. 3/5 | In-class discussion focusing on Shirky Chapters 8 - 9.
also: REVISITING THE WEB IS USING US http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g HTML to XML NET VIBES http://www.netvibes.com/#General http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netvibes "xml faciliates automated data exchange" "WE ARE THE WEB" = KEVIN KELLY = WIRED PDF of slides from social web mashup lecture |
| spring break | |
| Finish reading Here Comes Everybody and start reading The Information Bomb - Virilio | |
| Tues. 3/10 | NO CLASS |
| Thurs. 3/12 | NO CLASS |
| Week 9: media consolidation / who owns what | |
| Tues. 3/17 |
defining final projects... some example topics and articles to get you started...
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| Thurs. 3/19 |
Discuss Trebor Scholz: What the MySpace generation should know about working for free
Quiz 2 |
| Week 10: | |
| Tues. 3/24 | Discuss: The Interconnected Web: Media Consolidation, Corporate Ownership, and the World Wide Web
Assign 3 due (discuss consolidation, and Scholz article) Andrew Keen on CNN: YouTube is Ruining America |
| Thurs. 3/26 | (class cancelled) |
| Week 11: critique | |
| Tues. 3/31 | discussing Andrew Keen excerpt lecture: The Information Bomb |
| Thurs. 4/2 |
bring in a definition of cybernetics Virilio, cybernetics, Holmes |
| Week 12: privacy, data-mining, tracking | |
| Tues. 4/7 | guest speaker - Sarah Kolberg - data-mining in politics, marketing Assignment 4 |
| Thurs. 4/9 | guest speaker - Teri Rueb -Network Landscapes: Shifting Frontiers |
| Week 13: digital divide, taming the internet/net neutrality, moral panics, stalking and cyberbullying (as time permits) | |
| Tues. 4/14 | digital divide Virilio - discussing chapters 5 -14 QUIZ 3 |
| Thurs. 4/16 | barriers to participation and "digital divides" |
| Week 14: wrapping up - looking forward | |
| Tues. 4/21 | net neutrality |
| Thurs. 4/23 | tbd |
| Tues. 4/28 | papers due by 5:00 pm - I will be in (or near) my office 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm |