Introductions to course and to one another
Introduction to syndication (including rss, atom, news aggregators) Course networking tools: blogger, bloglines, del.icio.us, flickr

Digital camcorders 101--meet in the DLC
--Shoot a video that either responds to or explains a concept from today's readings.
Read Ong, McLuhan, Bolter+Grusin (DCP)

Read Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
Read Part I of The Language of New Media(Ch 1-3)
Class activities document

Guest: Judy Isaksen presents "Birth of a Nation, Take 3"
Read Tim Dirks's review of the original movie
Watch DJ Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation"
Read DJ Spooky's essay on the remix

Read Part II of The Language of New Media (Ch 4-6)

Guest: Jennifer Sharkey, "Inventing with iMovie"
Content Resources: Free music samples on Amazon; find music and sound at Creative Commons; Free stock photos (Morguefile)
iMovie Resources: Using iMovie to edit Quicktime content; Digital Stills for QT movies; Narration, Music, and Sound chapter (pdf)

Read Deleuze 1 and 2 (DCP)

Read Laurel (DCP)
Some additional resources: Play Zork; Star Raiders documentation; Laurel's website (with more of her writing)
Writing moment: What are your thoughts on Deleuze's and Laurel's views of language?

Read first half of How Images Think
View one of the superbowl ads for Ameriquest Mortgage Company
How does this commercial exemplify (or complicate) Burnett's ideas about images?

Finish reading How Images Think
Links: AIBO; Usenet; SETI@Home; Ultima Online; Final Fantasy Insider

Read Rhythm Science
For class, download Fire [multi-protocol IM client] and configure according to your preferred IM account.
Open up Rhythm Science and pick a word, any word. Talk about that word within the context of the book during our chat.

Audioblogs and Podcasting
Watch Four Minutes about Podcasting
Explore iPodder; Postcasting entry from Wikipedia; How to: Podcasting

Read first half of Free Culture
Links: Creative Commons; Pew Internet & American Life Project; Internet Archive

Finish reading Free Culture
Links: Eldred; Stanford Center for Internet and Society; Berkman Center for Internet and Society

Read Writing Machines

Intro to Flash: meet in the DLC

Read first half of New Philosophy for New Media

Workshop portfolio projects

No class--Spring Break!

Finish reading New Philosophy for New Media

Read Castells; Wellman, "Computer Networks as Social Networks;" and Wellman, "Designing the Internet" (DCP)

Read first part of Connected

Finish reading Connected
In the following groups, compile a list of definitions and descriptions of "network" (or network society) from the assigned reading. Send these to our class email list to be compiled.
Castells: Mary & Geof
Part I of Shaviro: Marc & Jodi
Part II of Shaviro: Jeremy, Wendy, Juliette

Read Rebecca Blood, "Weblogs: A History and Perspective"; Julian Dibbell, "Portrait of the Blogger as a Young Man"; Steven Johnson, "Use the Blog, Luke"; danah boyd, Broken Metaphors: Blogging as Liminal Practice"; Jill Walker, "Links and Power"; Skim the Pew Internet and American Life Project's The State of Blogging Report

Read "Blogging as Social Action"; "Women and Children Last"; "Structure and Evolution of Blogspace"; "Why We Blog"; "Semantic Blogging"; "How Blogging Software Reshapes the Online Community" (DCP)

Read ; Tom Coates' definition of social software and addendum; Shirky's "Social Software and the Politics of Groups" and "Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality"; Wired's "The Long Tail"; boyd's "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Network"; Agre's "Networking on the Network"

Read "Technorati Tags"; Weinberger's "Taxonomies and Tags"; Lodwick's "Tagwebs, Flickr, and the Human Brain"; Mathes's "Folksonomies--Cooperative Classification and Communication"; Sterling's "Order out of Chaos"; Shirky's "The Semantic Web"; Gladwell et al's "Identity and Search in Social Networks" (DCP)

Read Part I of Writing New Media

Read Part II of Writing New Media

Workshop during class

Workshop during class