Week Eight:
This week we'll touch upon some of the deeper implications of digital technologies. These readings should set up next weeks debate between Andrew Keen and Kevin Kelly.
- Monday: No class
- Wednesday:
- Quizercise 9: The tipping point
- Discussion: Modernity and Postmodernity
- Homework:
- Draft book review for conferences
- Blog like you've never blogged before
- Thursday:
- Analyzing Amazon: the anatomy of a book review
- Homework:
- Due Friday, midnight: Discourse Community Analysis Paper
- Read, online (and in coursepack): The Kevin Kelly v. Andrew Keen dialogue on Jewcy
- Keen: "Can We Save the Internet?" The WWW is a Scary Introduction to Primeval Man"
- Kelly: "The Cult of Anonymity: Social Contracts Cannot Save Us from the Madness that Comes with Anonymity"
- Keen: "Don't Scan My Book: Will the Idea Economy Save the Professional Artist, or Destroy Him?"
- Kelly: "Analog Fundamentalism, Digital Ambiguity: Black-and-White Arguments in a World of Gray"
- Blog in the USA
- Conferences:
- Format: 20 minutes, teams of 4
- Goal: Examine analysis papers
