Week 1.1: Intro / What’s new about digital media? / mediation
Week 1.2: Information everywhere / library guide
Readings: “Is Google Making us Stupid?” / UDL: Chs. 1-2
Week 2.1: History of the Internet and the World Wide Web
Week 2.2: The pre-digital
Readings: UDL: Chs. 3
Week 3.1: Digital Tools: Multimodality (Reflection video #1)
Week 3.2: Digital Tools: Online Language and Social Interaction (Men haha in every text)
Readings: UDL: Chs. 4-5
Week 4.1: Digital Tools: Attention Structures (Reflection video #2)
Week 4.2: Digital Tools: Critical Literacy
Readings: UDL: Chs. 6-7
Week 5.1: Time and Space (Reflection video #3)
Week 5.2: Time and Space
Readings: Naye, “Consumer Sublime” (NMTR: 1.4) / Carey (NMTR: 5.1) / Digital Ground, Ch. 1 (digitalground.pdf)
Week 6.1: Embodiedness (Paper outline due) (Reflection video #4)
Week 6.2: Socially Mediated Publicness
Readings: Digital Ground ch. 2 (refer to digitalground.pdf above) / Barry, “On Interactivity” (NMTR: 4.1)
Week 7.1: Digital Practices: Online cultures and Intercultural Communication (Reflection video #5)
Week 7.2: Digital Practices: Games, Learning and Literacy / Digital Literacies at Work (Midterm paper due)
Readings: UDL: Chs. 8-9
Week 8.1: Digital Practices: Collaboration and Peer Production (Reflection video #6)
Week 8.2: Digital Practices: Social Networking
Readings: UDL: Chs. 10-11
Week 9.1: Open and Closed Systems (Reflection video #7)
Week 9.2: Open and Closed Systems: Hackers, makers, cybercultures
Readings: Zitrain (Intro and conclusion from downloadable book) / Lessig, Remix (ch. 1 and 2 from downloadable book)
Week 10.1: Convergence Culture (Reflection video #8)
Week 10.2: Convergence Culture
Readings: Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins: JenkinsIntroduction.pdf; JenkinsChp4.pdf; JenkinsChp6.pdf
Week 11.1: Remix (Reflection video #9)
Week 11.2: Mash-up, intellectual property (copyright)
Readings: UDL: Chs. 3 / Kelly, 1,000 true fans: KellyBeyondFree.pdf / Remix Chs. 1-7
Week 12.1: Democracy (Presentation outline due) (Reflection video #10)
Week 12.2: Democracy
Readings: John Naughton, “Blogging and the Emerging Media Ecosystem” / Barber, “Pangloss, Pandora or Jefferson?” (NMTR: 4.2)
Week 13.1: Group presentations (4 groups of 3)
Week 13.2: NO CLASS
Week 14.1: Group presentations (4 groups of 3)
Week 14.2: Group presentations (4 groups of 3) / Wrap up