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Participatory Culture — and Civics?

  By GHink • October 19, 2014

 
reminders:

    • continue/increase group-consulting activity

        — Gen­er­ate audi­ence: share pages (social net­works); con­tact local/campus groups

        * reminder: par­tic­i­pa­tion credit; plus, need 10 posts for anno­ta­tions by 10/31

    • project com­po­nents (start this week­end):
      1. Par­tic­i­pa­tion Log (create/update)
      2. Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of Case Study
       
    • (from Fri­day) Begin finding/studying cul­tural relays (memes/viral exam­ples)
      → focus / appli­ca­tion: dig­i­tal rhetoric, “meme logic,” net­work cir­cu­la­tion (recomposition)

 

Stage II   Net­work Engage­ment — Project Week 4

 

M 20-Oct    Read/Discuss: Lessig, Remim (free eBook, 2008)
— excerpts from chap­ters 4 + 5   (*read­ings PDF in D2L)
→ notes/quotes Doc here

    » Dis­cuss lessons of “read-write cul­ture“
    + par­tic­i­pa­tory exam­ples: mash-ups, viral videos, meme cul­ture (stu­dent exam­ples)
     
    → focus/application: 1. analy­sis (Exer­cise 3)
    2. using exam­ples as “relays” for net­work rhetoric (group-project techniques/innovation, com­pos­ing emblem)

 
 
W 22-Oct    Read/Discuss: Reed, “Emo­tional Rhetorics Meet Videogame Aes­thet­ics” Cur­rents in Elec Lit­er­acy (2010)

    » Dis­cuss: con­tem­po­rary cul­ture + ideas for par­tic­i­pa­tion (look­ing toward group emblem composition)

 
 
 
» Weekly Blog Post: exam­ple of network/participatory cul­ture (to ana­lyze for Exer­cise 3)

  • Embed media in entry + label genre of par­tic­i­pa­tory cul­ture (this all that is required)
  • Class­mate com­ment: com­mu­ni­ca­tion mode or logic of media (image, GIF, video, etc) posted?
    (dig­i­tal rhetoric observed: “lan­guage” or ver­nac­u­lar of the meme­sphere?)
    — optional / e.c.: dis­cuss in terms of “pub­lic ped­a­gogy” (Portman-Daley + Lessig readings)

 
 
 
F 24-Oct      Group Progress Report (brief updates)

  • Prepa­ra­tion: review/compile notes on recent read­ings (use 3 in Exer­cise); choose rep­re­sen­ta­tive exam­ple to ana­lyze (posted Wed. or update)

 

    Optional — read for e.c. blog entry:
    Papa­gian­nis: “Work­ing towards Defin­ing an Aes­thet­ics of Aug­mented Real­ity” Con­ver­gence 2014 (PDF in D2L)
    or Gure­vitch: “Google Warm­ing: Google Earth as Eco-Machinima” Con­ver­gence 2014   (PDF in D2L)

    • Dis­cuss (optional entry): new tech­nolo­gies & emerg­ing plat­forms; poten­tial for (increased) net­work engagement?

 

 
 
 
Due (S 26-Oct): Exer­cise 3 “Meme­sphere Poet­ics” — Prompt
 
 
 



 

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Questioning Networked Activism

  By GHink • October 12, 2014

 
reminders:

      Due (S 11-Oct): Exer­cise 2 — Prompt here
       

    • also continue/increase group-consulting activity
        — Gen­er­ate audi­ence: share pages (social net­works); con­tact local/campus groups

        * reminder: par­tic­i­pa­tion credit; plus, need 10 posts for anno­ta­tions by 10/31

    • (from Fri­day) Begin finding/studying cul­tural relays (memes/viral exam­ples)
      → focus / appli­ca­tion: dig­i­tal rhetoric, “meme logic,” net­work cir­cu­la­tion (recomposition)

 

Stage II   Net­work Engage­ment — Project Week 3

 

M 13-Oct    Read/Discuss: Brown, “From Activism to Occu­pa­tion”  (2013) Cur­rents in Elec­tronic Lit­er­acy    
+ (from Fri­day) Ridolfo & DeVoss: “Rhetor­i­cal Veloc­ity and Deliv­ery” Kairos 13.2 (2009)

      » Focus/topic: net­work “occu­pa­tion” through “tac­ti­cal” strate­gies and/or rhetor­i­cal veloc­ity
      (cir­cu­la­tion + “re-composition” — like meme cul­ture)?
       

    • Dis­cuss group’s Case Study (campaign/organization)
      — reminder: see exam­ple cam­paigns by Hel­loCool­World

 
 
 
W 15-Oct   Inde­pen­dent Work (see email for instruc­tions)

Read/Discuss: Jones, “Net­worked Activism, Hybrid Struc­tures, and Net­worked Power” (2013) Cur­rents in Elec­tronic Literacy

    • Focus/discuss: “net­work activism” (famous exam­ples) vs. “online con­sul­tancy” (EmerAgency)

 
 
» Blog entry: dis­cuss recent approach to your group posting

    — con­sid­er­ing “rhetor­i­cal veloc­ity”? “occupy/saturation” approach? con­trast with case study or hack­tivists?
    → dis­cuss explic­itly your new under­stand­ing of net­works (2 recent read­ings) and con­sult­ing role

  • for class­mate reply, read + com­ment upon group member’s entry regard­ing lat­est efforts + topics

 
 
 

F 17-Oct      Read/Discuss: Portman-Daley: “Sub­tle Democ­racy: Pub­lic Ped­a­gogy and Social Media”  (2013) Cur­rents in Elec­tronic Literacy

    • Focus/Activity: group con­sult­ing (Emer­A­gency) as “net­work ped­a­gogy“
      → facil­i­tat­ing civic engage­ment vs. “slacktivist”/“clicktivism“

 
 
» Project Com­po­nents (task/assignment):

    1. Par­tic­i­pa­tion Log (create/update); 2. Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of Case Study (start this weekend)

 
 



 

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Tactical Velocity

  By GHink • October 5, 2014
    → Over week­end (from last week): Continue/increase group-consulting activity
  • Update/Refine Mis­sion State­ment; Post vari­ety of con­tent (pol­icy + media + stories…?)
  • Gen­er­ate audi­ence: share pages (social net­works); con­tact local/campus groups

    • * reminder: par­tic­i­pa­tion credit; plus, need 10 posts for anno­ta­tions by 10/31

 

Stage II          Net­work Engage­ment
— Project: Beyond “Clicktivism”

 
 

M 6-Oct    Read/Discuss: “Inter­view with Rita Raley” (on “tac­ti­cal media”)

  • Group task/activity: select Case Study from sev­eral options iden­ti­fied (orga­ni­za­tion / media campaign)

 

      — skip to 7:28 for Raley




     

     
     
    W 8-Oct    View: Crit­i­cal Art Ensem­ble — tac­ti­cal media exam­ples

      » Group task/activity: dis­cuss Case Study (orga­ni­za­tion / media campaign)

     

    • key topics/chapters: “the vir­tual con­di­tion,” “Recom­bi­nant The­ater, “the Per­for­ma­tive Matrix“
      — Cul­tural Resis­tance, “the bunker,” “non­ra­tional strategies”

     
    » Blog entry:

      — dis­cuss mod­el­ing from Case Study 1 tactic/technique in your post­ing this week

     

     
     
    F 10-Oct    Read/Discuss: Ridolfo & DeVoss: “Rhetor­i­cal Veloc­ity and Deliv­ery” Kairos 13.2 (2009)

      — read pages: “intro,” “remix,” “ampli­fi­ca­tion,” & “veloc­ity“
      (other pages optional; “his­tory” recommended)

    Ridolfo
     

    • Discuss/Focus: group-consulting posts/writing as Ephemeral (tac­ti­cal) or Cir­cu­la­tion (for recom­pos­tion) or both?

     
     

    Due (S 11-Oct): Exer­cise 2 — Prompt below
     
     

     

          “Tac­ti­cal Media is sit­u­a­tional, ephemeral, and self-terminating. It encour­ages the use of any media that will engage a par­tic­u­lar socio-political con­text in order to cre­ate mol­e­c­u­lar inter­ven­tions and semi­otic shocks that col­lec­tively could dimin­ish the ris­ing inten­sity of author­i­tar­ian cul­ture.“
          — Crit­i­cal Art Ensem­ble




         
         
         
        Con­tinue reading

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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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          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