Week 1
T 7/08 Discuss: Class objectives, schedule, activities, online platforms
After Class:
- Setup Blog (customize, write first entry; post URL for me, if you’ve not already)
→ Post: Introduction (on personal blog) - Sort / Re-arrange groups: current lists from initial preferences
→ For Tuesday: ideally have at least 1 example (see Jenkins article for ideas), even if just posted to your blog (before group’s site setup)
W 7/09 Read for discussion: Jenkins: “Why Participatory Culture Is Not Web 2.0: Some Basic Distinctions”
& Rushkoff: “Rise of the Amateur: High Tech Humanity” (2010)
Focus: Class Topic; Purpose/Argument; Group Project tasks (in-class)
Begin Class: student examples from group work/topic?
- * During / after class: begin group activity (collecting, posting) on online platform
(choose/create site as group; arrange schedule for class intro’s)
→ Updated Groups — Group Sites? (need URLs!)
R 7/10 Bogost: “McLuhan/Facebook” Facebook and Philosophy (2010): 21–32. PDF (in D2L)
Focus/Activity: “Media Tetrad” (Tech+Culture Analysis; Exercise 1 & Project 1)
Due: Blog Entry 1 (9pm)
- — informal discussion of your item/example posted to group’s site; 100–200 words, using terms/concepts (at least one) from this week’s readings (Wed-Fri).
→ remember to post to group site (as many items as you’d like!) before blogging about one example
F 7/11 Jenkins (2009): “If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead (part one): media viruses and memes.”
& “If it doesn’t spread, it’s dead (part two): sticky and Spreadable—two paradigms.”
Begin Class: student examples from group sites
Focus: Networked Audience & Context (rhetorical analysis)
» Exercise 1 — Instructions Page
S 7/13 Due: Exercise 1 (posted on personal blog)
Henry Jenkins, MIT Professor and author of “Convergence Culture” talks about the new media landscape.
Sep 21, 2009
I am excited to see how this convergence culture influences globalization. As we close the digital divide around the world new and different views are going to gain credibility.