Week Six:
This week we'll talk about how egalitarian the net can and should be, discussing not only your own communities, but also knoweldge ecologies such as wikipedia and slash.dot.
- Monday:
- Quizercise 7: reputation online
- Discussion: Ethos, anonymity, and reputation sytems
- Homework:
- Draft analysis for conferences
- Blog like you've never blogged before
- Wednesday:
- Focus on posts
- Homework:
- Blog
- Read: Jenkins, "Spoiling Survivor" from Convergence Culture
- Thursday:
- Discuss: Quotations, quotations marks, block quotations
- Discuss: What not to write (sorta), the anatomy of a five-paragraph essay
- Homework:
- Read: Coursepack, Anderson, The Long Tail
- Read: Steven Doheny-Farina, The Wired Neighborhood
- Blog in the USA
- Conferences:
- Format: 20 minutes, teams of 4
- Goal: Examine analysis papers
