Begin TechnoMediaCulture Study

Week 1

T 7/08       Dis­cuss: Class objec­tives, sched­ule, activ­i­ties, online plat­forms

After Class:

  1. Setup Blog (cus­tomize, write first entry; post URL for me, if you’ve not already)
    Post: Intro­duc­tion (on per­sonal blog)
  2. 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)


Participation & Forms?

Par­tic­i­pa­tion & Media Forms?


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)