Course Schedule

SCHEDULE: Please come to class prepared to discuss the reading assigned for that day.

WEEK 1 | Transformations: Cultural industries and how we study them
Tues Sept 9 | Introductions, course plan and intro to networked public culture

Thurs Sept 11 | Reading: Web.studies: Introduction to the New Edition; Ito et. al. Intro; Livingston Chapter 1.

WEEK 2 | Theorizations: Critical studies, Power, and New Media
Tues Sept 16 | Reading: New Media Theory Primer, Jeffrey Bardzell; Culture, Power, History, Introduction, Nicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley and Sherry B. Ortner (hand out)

Thurs Sept 18 | Reading*: Barry Wellman The Network Community;
Fred Turner Where Counter Culture Met the New Economy;
Manuel Castells, Why Networks Matter;
danah boyd Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites;
Yochai Benkler Wealth of Networks Video and
Chapter 1;
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle; Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle Ch 1; Marshall McLuhan “The Medium is the Message” (handout); Raymond Williams “The Technology and the Society” (handout)
*This week’s reading will be divided up among groups of students. Each group will present and lead a discussion on the article they are assigned.

WEEK 3 | Explorations: Digital Media Research
Tues Sept 23 | Reading: Media Studies 2.0; Web.Studies, Nina Wakeford “Developing Methodological Frameworks for Studying the World Wide Web” (handout)

Thurs Sept 25 | Reading: Personal Portable Pedestrian and Young People and New Media
Short Book Reviews Due


WEEK 4 | Method Workshops
Tues Sept 30 | Workshop on interviewing and ethnographic investigative methods
Reading: TBA

Thurs Oct 02 | Workshop/discussion on innovative forms of media analysis
Check out:
ArtLab
Digital Ethnography of YouTube
Digital Youth Research

WEEK 5 |
Tues Oct 07 | project proposals
Thurs Oct 09 | project proposals

WEEK 6 |
Tues Oct 14 | project proposals
Thurs Oct 16 | project proposals

WEEK 7 |
Tues Oct 21 | project proposals
Thurs Oct 23 | project proposals

WEEK 8 |
Tues Oct 28 | Literature and Media Reviews
Thurs Nov 30 | Literature and Media Reviews

WEEK 9 |
Tues Nov 04 | Literature and Media Reviews
Thurs Nov 06 | Literature and Media Reviews

WEEK 10 |
Tues Nov 11 | Literature and Media Reviews
Thurs Nov 13 | Literature and Media Reviews

FINAL | Proposals Due: 1:00pm, Monday, November 17, 2008