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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
 
 
 

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Begin New Consultancy

  By GHink • September 1, 2014 ,

 
week 2
 
M 01-Sep    No Classes — Labor Day

 
 
W 03-Sep    Read/Discuss: Elec­tronic Mon­u­ments Pref­ace + Intro­duc­tion (pp. ix-xxxi) *PDF in D2L

    » Focus: Method of Study, Class Per­spec­tive, On-going study
    — “Civic Engage­ment through New Media?” (Inter­net Pub­lic Sphere)

 
 
» Blog Entry   First Entry due Wed. 9pm; class­mate com­ment due Thursday

    Notes:

    • 200–300 words, infor­mal (“blog­gerly” voice = between schol­arly & personal)

    • Dis­cuss first read­ing, E.M. Intro­duc­tion
      — sug­gest: link spe­cific point from read­ing / class dis­cus­sion to per­sonal exam­ple
      (par­tic­u­larly, obser­va­tions about social issue or net­work media & activities)

    • More on blog­ging as assign­ment here

     

  • Addi­tion­ally, com­ment on classmate’s post — by Thursday

 
 
* update   Thurs­day night: com­plete poll of your choices for group focus (issue/topic) — to arrange by preferences

      • Sec­tion 028 poll here (sign-in required)
      • Sec­tion 034 poll here (sign-in required)

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F 05-Sep    Read/Discuss:

      » Final­ize groups by topic/issue; setup group sites/accounts

 
 

    * Begin “net­work wit­ness”
    — post­ing on group site and doc­u­ment­ing on per­sonal blog

 
 
 

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FocusGroups

  By GHink • August 29, 2014
Fri­day Class Activities

 

1. In-class writing:
  • Reflec­tion: dis­cuss one com­mu­nity prob­lem, civic con­cern, social issue
    — at present and in past experience.

  • fast­write: post on your blog (entry can be draft/saved and pri­vate if preferred)

 
 

2. Ideas for Group-Site Topics/Focus
  • Dis­cuss in class and post ideas pro­posed in com­ments here
    (ini­tial list, to add/modify over weekend)

 
 
 
 




 
 

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Prelude

  By GHink • August 25, 2014

 

Wel­come, Fall 2014 stu­dents in New Media & Civic Engage­ment (WRTG 3020)!

As I will update this site reg­u­larly, be sure to check frequently—especially for posts amend­ing our class sched­ule.

 

There sev­eral ways to stay up-to-date with class using this blog (our course website):

    book­mark the main page; sub­scribe to the RSS feed (reader required); view course con­tent on your mobile or tablet (site opti­mized for lat­est mobile/touchscreen plat­forms); Sub­scribe (via your Word­Press account)

 

 

» Com­ing Soon:

  • Instruc­tions for set­ting up your blog.
  • Overview and detailed expla­na­tion about blog­ging — infor­mal entries address­ing class mate­r­ial and devel­op­ing ideas toward assignments.
  • Brief overview & instruc­tions, sup­ple­ment­ing class dis­cus­sion about media plat­forms

 

» Most imme­di­ately, closely review the syl­labus and sched­ule of read­ings and class sessions.

 

    Also, once you’ve reg­is­tered for Word­Press:
    please leave a com­ment below con­firm­ing that you’ve found and book­marked this site
    (while you’ll intro­duce your­self in your first post, this com­ment thread can be the extended “intro­duc­tion dis­cus­sion” from class as well)

 
 


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