Meetings, Readings, and Assignments
(Syllabus)
This document will almost certainly be revised at least once during the semester. Changes will be announced in class. You are responsible for keeping up.
| Date | Topic | Reading/Deadline |
| Sep. 4 | Introduction to the course | No Reading | Sep. 11 | New Literacies and the New Literates | Doing Internet Research: Jones (1-27), Kaplan, E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print | Sep. 18 | Social Relations Online, Part 1 | Doing Internet Research, Garton et al. (75-106), Denzin (107-126), Witmer et al. (145-162), Mitra and Cohen (179-202), and Harrison and Stephen (221-242) |
| Sep. 25 | Social Relations Online, Part 2 | Social Consequences of Internet Use, Katz and Rice, Chapters 1 & 4 (handout)
short paper postponed to 10/02/03 |
| Oct. 2 | Social Relations Online, Part 3 | The Internet in Everyday Life, "The Haythornthwaite and Wellman (pp. 3- 41); Howard et al. (pp. 45-73); Neustadtl et al. (pp. 186-211)
short paper |
| Oct. 9 | Digital Libraries, Part 1 | Practical Digital Libraries, Chapters 1, 5, 6, 7
research question due |
| Oct. 16 | Digital Libraries, Part 2 | Practical Digital Libraries, Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
| Oct. 23 | Digital Libraries, Part 3 | online readings from D-Lib, ACM Digital Library, others TBA
research design due |
| Oct. 30 | No class: individual conferences this week | |
| Nov. 6 | Social Relations Online, Part 4 | Social Consequences of Internet Use, Katz and Rice, Chapters 10-13 (handouts) |
| Nov. 13 | What Will Be, Part 1 | Smart Mobs, Introduction and Chapters 1-4 |
| Nov. 20 | What Will Be, Part 2 | Smart Mobs, Chapters 5-8 |
| Thanksgiving break | ||
| Dec. 4 | No class: individual conferences this week
draft research report due |
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| Dec. 11 | Link Patterns and Social Relations | Laws of the Web |
| Dec. 18 | research report due | |
