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. 2 | Introduction to the course | No Reading | Sep. 9 | New Literacies and the New Literates | Kaplan, E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print, Kaplan, Literacy Beyond Books (handout); a collection of Reading readings, Nardi and O'Day (handout) | Sep. 16 | Approaches to online research, part 1 | Doing Internet Research, Jones (pp. 1-27), Garton et al. (pp. 75-106), Denzin (pp. 107-126); Society Online, Griswold and Wright (pp. 201-222); plus handouts from Internet Communication and Qualitative Research, Chapters 1 & 4 |
| Sep. 23 | Approaches to online research, part 2 | The Internet in Everyday Life, Haythornthwaite and Wellman (pp. 3-41); Howard et al. (pp. 45-73); Katz and Rice (pp. 114-138); Neustadl et al. (pp. 186-214), Katz and Rice, Chapter 1 (handout) |
| Sep. 30 | Online Activism, part 1 | Cyberactivism, Introduction (pp 1-24), Gurak and Logie (pp. 25-46), and Kidd (pp. 47-70); Society Online, Rice and Katz (pp. 103-120)
short paper |
| Oct. 7 | Online Activism, part 2 | Cyberactivism, Vegh (pp. 71-96), Elin (pp. 97-116), Ayers (pp. 145-164), and Garrido and Halavais (pp. 165-184); Society Online, Stromer-Galley (pp. 87-102) |
| Oct. 14 | Everything's Connected, part 1 |
research question due |
| Oct. 21 | No class: schedule individual appointments | |
| Oct. 28 | Everything's Connected, part 2 | Six Degrees, Chapters 1-3 (pp. 1-100) plus Six Degrees, chapters 4 & 5 research design due |
| Nov. 4 | Society Online, part 1 | Society Online, Dessauer (pp. 121-136), Schneider and Foot (pp. 137-154), Robinson et al. (pp. 237-254); Topics from the Pew Internet and American Life Project (TBA) |
| Nov. 11 | Society Online, part 2 | The Internet in Everyday Life, pp 215-290 (all of Part III, "Finding Time for the Internet") |
| Nov. 18 | Community | The Internet in Everyday Life, pp. 291-430 (all of Part IV, "The Internet in the Community") |
| Thanksgiving break | ||
| Dec. 2 | Everything's Connected, part 3 | Six Degrees, Chapters 6-8 |
| Dec. 9 | Everything's Connected, part 4 | Six Degrees, Chapters 9 & 10 |
| Dec. 16 | research report due | |
