Week Seven:
This week we'll return to economics of the web, although now our investigation will focus on the cultural impact of digital technologies (for better or worse). These readings should set up next weeks debate between Andrew Keen and Kevin Kelly.
- Monday:
- Quizercise 8: reality, virtuality, and ambiguity
- Discussion: Vons or Amazon
- Homework:
- Draft analysis for conferences
- Blog like you've never blogged before
- Wednesday:
- Focus on posts
- Homework:
- Blog
- Continue to draft analysis paper
- Thursday:
- Discuss: Commas and sentence combining
- Homework:
- Due Friday, midnight: Discourse Community Analysis Paper
- Read: Coursepack, David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous
- Blog in the USA
- Conferences:
- Format: 20 minutes, teams of 4
- Goal: Examine analysis papers
