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. 5 | Introduction to the course | No Reading | Sep. 12 | Orality, Literacy, and E-Literacy, Part 1 | Writing Space, Preface and chapters 1-5 | Sep. 19 | Orality, Literacy, and E-Literacy, Part 2 | Writing Space, chapters 6-10; Kaplan, E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print |
| Sep. 26 | Capturing Social Relations Online, Part 1 | Doing Internet Research: Jones (1-28),
Garton et al. (75-106), and Denzin (107-126)
short paper due |
| Oct. 3 | Capturing Social Relations Online, Part 2 | Doing Internet Research: Witmer et al. (145-162), Mitra and Cohen (179-202), and Harrison and Stephen (221-242) |
| Oct. 10 | Peers and Peer-to-Peer | Kam and others (handouts)
research question due |
| Oct. 17 | Lives on the Screen | Jenkins, Turkle, and others (handouts) |
| Oct. 24 | The Web as a Transforming Social Space, Part 1 | Small Pieces Loosely Joined,
Preface and chapters 1-3
research design due |
| Oct. 31 | No class: individual conferences this week | |
| Nov. 7 | The Web as a Transforming Social Space, Part 2 | Small Pieces Loosely Joined, chapters 5-8 |
| Nov. 14 | The Internet as a Transforming Political and Economic Space, Part 1 | Internet Galaxy, Opening and chapters 1-4 |
| Nov. 21 | The Internet as a Transforming Political and Economic Space, Part 2 | Internet Galaxy, chapters 5-9 and Conclusion |
| Thanksgiving break | ||
| Dec. 5 | No class: individual conferences this week
draft research report due |
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| Dec. 12 | Link Patterns as Representations of Information Flows | Laws of the Web |
| Dec. 19 | research report due | |
