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This is the course wiki for VM403 during the Fall 2007 Semester. Previous semesters' wikis are below.
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AN EPIC STUDY GUIDE
By none other than me, Cyle, for your studying pleasure
WARNING: Only for the concise studier
http://pages.emerson.edu/students/c/cyle_gage/vm403_study_guide.pdf
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A supplement... only, like, half done at this point.
http://pages.emerson.edu/students/d/derek_boyle/quotes.doc
Assignments
Warning: LULZ (and other sharing of resources)
I guess we can share links here, amirite?
Disney - Fair Use! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
From Cyle's Corner:
What is lulz? Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.
Continue here
Reading? Needs more TV.
Jochai Benkler, "Emergence of the Networked Public Sphere"
Jean Baudrillard, "Simulation and Simulacrum" - notes on postmodernism
Bolter and Grusin, Remediation
danah boyd, Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8
Jacques Ellul, "The Technological Society"
Jaron Lanier, "Digital Maoism"
Lawrence Lessig, "Free Culture"
Bruno Latour, "Sociology of a Door"
Robert Putnam, "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital"
Daniel Solove, "Digital Person"
Barry Wellman, Little Boxes, Glocalization, and Networked Individualism
Class Notes
September 13 - The Technological Society
September 18 - Sociology of a Door
September 20 - Simulation and Simulacrum
September 25 - Remediation
September 27- Convergence Culture Henry Jenkins, “Quentin Tarrantino’s Star Wars? Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture”
October 2 - Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
October 11- Wellman Little Boxes, glocalization, and networked individualism
October 11- Van Dijk The One-Dimensional Network Society of Manuel Castells
October 16 - Social NetworkingFriends, Friendsters, and Top 8 by Danah Boyd
October 18 - Productivity and E-Mail
October 23- Wikinomics
October 25 - Creativity and Collaboration Digital Maoism
October 25 - OurSpace
November 6 - Citizen Journalism
November 8 - Ownership Free Culture
November 15 - Benkler's Wealthy Networks, lol
November 27 - Daniel Solove
November 29 - Weiser, “The World Is Not a Desktop”
December 4 - Eric Gordon, “Mapping Digital Networks: From Virtual Reality to Google”
December 11 - The End of Cyberspace?
Tutorials
Classmembers are encouraged to join del.icio.us. If you are unfamiliar with del.icio.us, visit the site’s help page (http://del.icio.us/help/), and also learn how to use the tag feature.
The class del.icio.us metatag is: vm403 (http://del.icio.us/search/?fr=del_icio_us&p=vm403&type=all) (note lowercase)
Give some thought to contributing to the design and layout of the wiki. There is a useful editing tutorial (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_edit_a_page) and Cheatsheet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cheatsheet) on the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) site.
Hint: To create a new page: "edit" the page you are on, type a name for your new page, put 2 brackets "[""[" and "]""]" (w/o the "s) on either side and then save. When you return to the page you are on, there will now be a link to your page. Follow the new link and voila! you can edit your new page.