Syllaweb
Syllaweb
| Date | Classroom Agenda | Homework
(Note: WS=The Wired Society and
WOL=Writing Online) |
"Surfing the Net" |
"Surfing the Net" |
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| Week
One
Tu 8/22 |
Introduction to course--course materials, policies, methods.Get-acquainted activity. | Read
over entire policy & syllabus and come to class with any questions;
pp.1-3; Dery's "Escape Velocity," pp. 4--9 & Hooper's "To Fax or Not
to Fax." pp. 34-5 in WS and Ch. 1-2 & 4 in WOL
Obtain ASURITE e-mail account (and WWW account) |
| Th 8/24 | Discuss policy, syllabus, questions, assignment overview, assigned readings from Wired Society.Assign Project #1 Activity: Good, Bad and Ugly Websites | Read:
Watson's "When Your Toast StartsTalking. . . ," (p.49-51) & Dunn's
"Bookends to the 20th Century. . . ," (p. 44-7 ) in WS; and Ch.9-11
in WOL
Plan Basic WebPage |
"Virtual Communities" |
"Virtual Communities" |
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| Week
Two
Tu 8/29 |
Discuss readings; Work in novice/expert pairs to contine constrction of simple web pages | Read: Don Lanham's "The Common Place MOO: Orality and Literacy in Virtual Reality" & Sherry Turkle's "Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality: Playing in the MUDs" |
| Th 8/31 | Discuss e-mail and online discussion groups, particularly in relation to the rhetoric of those spaces. | Read: John Perry Barlow's "Is There a There in Cyberspace?"; Amy Bruckman's "Finding One's Own in Cyberspace," & Rheingold's "Cyberspace and Human Nature," pp. 344-55 in WS and Ch 6-7 in WOL |
| Week
Three
Tu 9/5 |
Introduction to Web Board .In-Class webboard "chat" about readings. Discuss Project 2. | Read Rheingold's "The Virtual Community," (pp. 92-7 in WS) & Sherry Turkle's "Virtuality and Its Discontents: Searching for Community in Cyberspace" (The American Prospect, no. 24, Winter 1996), |
| Th 9/7 | Project
#1 Due
Discuss readings; Brief Webpage presentations & discussion. |
Read: Barlow's "A Declaration of Independence in Cyberspace,"( pp. 201-3 in WS) ; Rosenberg's "Independence Daze: A Sovereign Cyberspace Is Alluring, But Hardly Practical," (pp. 204-7 in WS) & Oppenheimer's "The Computer Delusion," pp. 304-22 in WS |
Cyberdemocracy & |
The Global Village |
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| Week
Four
Tu 9/12 |
Discuss
readings
Continue brief website presentations |
Read: Mark Poster's "CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere"; Robbins' "Mad at Your Modem? History Is on Your Side," pp. 474-6 & Postman's "The Same Mindless, Stupid Process," pp. 154-9 in WS & Ch. 12-14 in WOL |
| Th 9/14 | Instructor Ill--class cancelled | Read: Jesse Kornbluth's "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Virtual Woman." Julian Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace: Or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database Into a Society" (Village Voice, Dec 23, 1993) (pp. 98-113 in WS) |
CyberSexual |
Politics |
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| Week
Five
Tu 9/19 |
Discuss readings & advanced search techniques online, use of online library catalogs, and citation of electronic material. | Read: Miller's "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier," pp. 116-22. |
| Th 9/21 | Discuss
readings
MOOs & MUDs Group MOO work |
Read: Maney's "Technowomen," pp. 428-32 in WS; Barbara Ehrenreich's "Put Your Pants on, Demonboy." |
| Week
Six
Tu 9/26 |
Discuss
readings
Virtual Community Workshop Assign Project #3 |
Read: and Lynn Cherny's "Gender Differences in Text-Based Virtual Reality" Amy Bruckman's "Gender Swapping on the Internet" and Steve Silberman's "We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-mail" and Ch 8 in WOL |
| Th 9/28 | Discuss
readings
Virtual Community Workshop II |
Read: David Lyon's "From Big Brother to Electronic Panopticon" and & James Gleick's "Big Brother Is Us," pp. 256-62 WS; Finalize Project #2 |
"The Virtual Panopticon: |
An Orwellian Future?" |
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| Week
Seven
Tu 10/3 |
Discuss
readings
In-Class Webwork: Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon and the Jeremy Bentham Webcam and the Virtual Panopticon |
Read: John Perry Barlow's "Desperados of the Datasphere," (pp. 66-72in WS); Sussman, "Policing Cyberspace," (pp. 236-43 in WS) |
| Th 10/5 | Discuss readings | Read: Mitchell Kapor's " "Civil Liberties in Cyberspace: When Does Hacking Turn From an Exercise of Civil Liberties Into a Crime?,"( pp. 208-15 in WS) John Ives' "Computer Virus Hoaxes: Urban Legends for the Digital Age" (Bad Subjects, Issue #37, March 1998). |
| Week
Eight
Tu 10/10 |
Discuss readings | Read: Heather Corinna, "I Am Not an Exhibitionist: The AmandaCAM Interview," Leisure Suit (6 September 1999). |
| Th 10/12 | Discuss
readings
Begin Project #2 presentations |
Read: Michelle Slatalla and Joshua Quittner. "Gang War in Cyberspace", in Wired [December 1994]; McKenzie Wark, "Cyberpunk: From subculture to mainstream" (1992); and Kevin Warick's "Cyborg 1.0" in Wired [February 2000] Cyborgs |
| "Slackers, Hackers & | Cyberbodies: Cyborgs & Cyberpunks" | |
| Week
Nine
Tu 10/17 |
Discuss
readings
Project
#2 presentations:
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Read: Hari Kunzru "You Are Cyborg". ("For Donna Haraway, we are already assimilated") Wired 5.02 (February 1997); Elizabeth Reid. "Identity and the Cyborg Body". |
| Th 10/19 | Discuss
readings;
Project #2 presentations: Trisha Coffman |
Read: John Tovla's "The Heresy of Hypertext: Fear and Anxiety in the Late Age of Print" ; Unsworth's "Living Inside the (Operating) System: Community in Virtual Reality" and Bolter's "You Are What You See," pp. 150-3, and "The Late Age of Print," pp. 279-86 in WS |
| "Hype and Hypertext: | Redefining Text" | |
| Week
Ten
Tu 10/24 |
Discusss readings in a Virtual classmeeting | Read: McLuhan's "The Medium Is the Message," pp. 139-49; Samuelson's "Requiem for the Typewriter," pp. 287-9; Lyall's "Are These Books, or What? CD-ROM and the Literary Industry," pp. 290-7; Markoff's "The Rise and Swift Fall of Cyber Literacy," pp. 301-3 in WS. |
| Th 10/26 | Discuss
readings
View X-Files episode Project #2 presentations Laurie Hurley & Robin Mellick Project 3 due. |
Read: Ashey Dunn's "Think of Your Soul as a Market Niche," (pp. 162-5 in WS); John Gehl's "Diary of a Telecommuter,"( pp. 439-41 in WS), and Maryann Bird's "System Overload," pp. 492-4 in WS |
| Learning & Working Online | Learning & Working Online | |
| Week
Eleven
Tu 10/31 |
In-Class
Hypertext "Reading"
Project #2 presentations: Erin Pierce, Les McCullough & Cathy Parson |
Read: Hafner's "Log On & Shoot," pp. 73-5; Lohr's A New Battlefield, pp. 87-91 in WS & Ch 15 in WOL |
| Th 11/2 | Discuss
readings
Project #2 presentations: Elizabeth Reiff, Courtney Pinney & Megan Kruger |
Work on Project #4 |
| Week
Twelve
Tu 11/7 |
Discusss
readings
Project #2 presentations: Anthony Derwinski & Megan Carl |
Work on Project #4 |
| Th 11/9 | Project
#4 workshop
Project #2 presentations: Alicia G. & Krista Ohlrogge |
Work on Project #4 |
| Week
Thirteen
Tu 11/14 |
Project
#4 workshop
Project #2 presentations: Brent Kocal, Mary Renzi & Jannette Saxton |
Work on Project #4 |
| Th 11/16 | Project
#2 presentations:
Heidi Ernst & David Baroldy |
Work on Project #4 |
| Week
Fourteen
Tu 11/21 |
Discuss Webfolio in Virtual classmeeting | Work on Project #4 |
| Th 11/23 | No Classes: Thanksgiving | Work on Project #4 & Finalize Webfolios |
| Week
Fifteen
Tu 11/28 |
Project #4 Workshop | Work on Project #4 |
| Th 11/30 | Project #4 Workshop | Compose webfolio evaluations |
| Week
Sixteen
Tu 12/5 |
Project #4 Due |