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Clicktivism

  By GHink • September 28, 2014

 

      → reminder: Project 1 Poet­ics sec­tion due S 9/28
      (post on Project 1 page on your Word­Press site)
    * Resume group-site activity!

 

Stage II          Net­work Engagement
— Project: Beyond “Clicktivism”

 
 
M 29-Sep   Read/discuss: Glad­well, “Small Change” The New Yorker (4-Oct 2010)

    » propose/discuss group Case Study (topic/issue)
    — see exam­ples: Hel­loCool­World cam­paigns  
     
    → Dis­cuss updates about group sites
    * continue/increase “net­work wit­ness” activ­ity (posting)

        
 
 
W 01-Oct   Read/Discuss: White, Micah. “Reject­ing Click­tivism.” Adbusters.org  (4 Aug. 2010)

+“ Click­tivism is activism degraded into adver­tis­ing.” Adbusters.org   (08 Oct 2010)

  • Group work: Find + try gen­er­at­ing audi­ence

      View & share class­mates’ groups? Pro­mote your group on social net­works?
       

    * Con­tact cam­pus / local organization(s)

 
 
F 03-Oct   Read/Discuss: Zuck­er­man,“New Media, New Civics?” (06-Dec 2013)  

  • Group work: progress report (con­tin­ued from Wednesday)

            

 
» Due: Blog entry — Project Reflection

    • From com­pos­ing project and read­ing your self-potrait & com­mu­nity story,
      any insights about iden­tity, expe­ri­ence, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, con­nec­tion, etc.
      in net­work media ecology?

 
 

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Studio

  By GHink • September 20, 2014

 

     
     
    M 22-Sep   Stu­dio (project work­shop): led by Groups 1 & 2 (list of groups here)

    Due: Inven­tory of Notes (class prepa­ra­tion) — see below

      » Focus: review/discuss dig­i­tal iden­tity & net­worked com­mu­nity?
      — 4 “per­sonal data­bases” & com­pos­ite “self-portrait“
      — Review/Discuss Assign­ment objec­tives + approach

     

      Dis­cuss notes + project ideas in com­ments below (before + after class)

    » Due (late/updated): Notes (page on your blog)

     
     
    W 24-Sep   Stu­dio (project work­shop): led by Groups 3 & 4 (list of groups here)

    • prepa­ra­tion for “assem­blage por­trait” (lists, notes, sketch, out­line — using 4 data­bases)
      — test site (Word­Press pages, Wix, etc) & soft­ware
       
      » Focus/Activity: dis­cuss + test dig­i­tal com­po­si­tion tech­niques
      — Review/Discuss Com­pos­ing Guide & begin Web-work

     
    » Weekly Blog Entry: optional / extra credit

     
     
    F 26-Sep   Project Work­shop (praxis):

      » Activ­ity: “tech-support” + peer feed­back
      (work-in-progress due)

     
     
    » Due (S 27-Sep): Project 1

      → update: Poet­ics sec­tion due S 9/28
      (post on Project 1 page on your Word­Press site)

     
     
    Con­tinue reading

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    Modes

    Aside

      By GHink • September 20, 2014
        notes toward com­pos­ing poetics/praxis, Project 1



       
       

        » task: “To extrap­o­late from lit­er­acy to elec­tracy, we need to find some pop­u­lar behav­ior in our medi­ated expe­ri­ence that is as famil­iar to us as hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion was to peo­ple in an oral appa­ra­tus.”
        — Ulmer, Inter­net Inven­tion p.143

        → con­duc­tive logic? (infer­ence, “flash” of insight?)

        “just as Plato invented the dia­logue as a hybrid with oral and lit­er­ate fea­tures,
        so too now is our con­sul­tancy a hybrid selected from oral, lit­er­ate, and elec­trate ele­ments.”
        — Ulmer, p.156

       

       

      modes of information
       
      Nar­ra­tive
       
       
      Argu­ment
       
       
      Fig­ure
       
      		  
      Game
       

       
      Con­tinue reading

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      Networked Generation

      Quote

        By GHink • September 20, 2014

       
      » from Zadie Smith’s 2010 review of The Social Net­work & You Are Not a Gad­get: A Man­i­festo:

       

        “Soft­ware may reduce humans, but there are degrees. Fic­tion reduces humans, too, but bad fic­tion does it more than good fic­tion, and we have the option to read good fic­tion. Jaron Lanier’s point is that Web 2.0 “lock-in” hap­pens soon; is hap­pen­ing; has to some degree already hap­pened. And what has been “locked in”? It feels impor­tant to remind our­selves, at this point, that Face­book, our new beloved inter­face with real­ity, was designed by a Har­vard sopho­more with a Har­vard sophomore’s pre­oc­cu­pa­tions. What is your rela­tion­ship sta­tus? (Choose one. There can be only one answer. Peo­ple need to know.) Do you have a “life”? (Prove it. Post pic­tures.) Do you like the right sort of things? (Make a list. Things to like will include: movies, music, books and tele­vi­sion, but not archi­tec­ture, ideas, or plants.)

        But here I fear I am becom­ing nos­tal­gic. I am dream­ing of a Web that caters to a kind of per­son who no longer exists. A pri­vate per­son, a per­son who is a mys­tery, to the world and—which is more important—to her­self. Per­son as mys­tery: this idea of per­son­hood is cer­tainly chang­ing, per­haps has already changed. Because I find I agree with Zucker­berg: selves evolve.”

      — Zadie Smith: “Gen­er­a­tion Why?“
      Novem­ber 25, 2010 | The New York Review of Books
       

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      Memesphere

        By GHink • September 13, 2014

       

            * reminder: begin “net­work wit­ness” (group posts “mon­i­tor­ing”)
            — share group site/s & begin seek­ing audience

       
       
      M 15-Sep     » Focus (and dis­cus­sion): Dis­course Com­mu­ni­ties
      Read­ings from Into the Blo­gos­phere: Rhetoric, Com­mu­nity, and Cul­ture of Weblogs (2004)

       

       
       
       
      W 17-Sep   Rice, “The Mak­ing of Ka-knowledge: Dig­i­tal Aural­ity” (2006) Com­put­ers and Com­po­si­tion 23 (PDF in D2L)

        Focus/Discuss: dig­i­tal rhetoric, net­work forms/modes

       
      » Blog Entry due (plus class­mate com­ment due Thurs.)

       
       
       
      F 19-Sep   Brown, “Com­po­si­tion in the Dro­mos­phere” (2012) Com­put­ers and Com­po­si­tion 29.1 (PDF in D2L)

        Focus/Discuss: net­work con­di­tions (“real-time”) & expe­ri­ence; mul­ti­modal com­pos­ing
        — look­ing ahead: project 1

       
       
       
       

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      Network Experience

        By GHink • September 6, 2014
          **Impor­tant: com­plete urgent group tasks over week­end (see prior email)

       

      Stage I Medi­ated Com­mu­nity— Project: “Ensem­ble Experience”

       
       
       

      M 09-Sep   Read for dis­cus­sion: Face­book & Phi­los­o­phy (2010) (PDF in D2L)

        — chap­ters by: Bogost (21–32), Butera (201–12), and Fraser & Doyle (215–30)

          » Focus/Activity: Media Stud­ies + Rhetor­i­cal Sit­u­a­tion 2.0
           
          — notes/quotes here (Google Doc;   sign-in with @CU iden­tikey required to see form)

       
       
      W 10-Sep   Read for dis­cus­sion: Face­book & Phi­los­o­phy (2010) (PDF in D2L)

        — chap­ters by: Wan­del & Beavers (89–96), Vejby & Wit­tkower (97–108), and Scholz (241–52)
          » Activity/Discuss: using new terms/concepts for ana­lyz­ing net­work plat­form
          (rhetoric & social exchange in media ecol­ogy   — Exer­cise 1 warm-up)

       
      » Note: *Drop Dead­line (Wednes­day 10-September)

       
       
      » Blog Entry (due 11pm)   — plus class­mate com­ment (due Thurs.)

       
       
       
      F 12-Sep     Inde­pen­dent Activ­ity: Group Work

      • Draft group’s ini­tial “mis­sion state­ment” (Google Doc)

      • Setup group’s web / social-network account(s):
        — Face­book (page/group), blog (Word­Press), Twit­ter, Tum­blr, Pin­ter­est, Insta­gram, Vine
        → begin post­ing about issue (social prob­lem, civic action, com­mu­nity concern)

       
       
      » Due (S 13-Sep): Exer­cise 1   — Instruc­tions Page