Schedule

Schedule

The schedule is subject to change, it is your responsibility to stay up-to-date on the schedule by checking this page on a regular basis.

Date	Topic (sub topic)	Due in class	Watch in class	Supplemental Group Material
1.5	Introduction (technological determinism versus social construction)	--	Douglas Rushkoff TED Talk,  Blade Runner scene, Mark Hansen talk	--
1.7	Affordances, The Digital Public Sphere	Rushkoff Introduction, Norman Affordance article	Michael Anti TED talk,	--
1.12	Cognitive Surplus, Crowdsourcing, Networked Journalism	Rushkoff Ch. 8, Russell p. 11-21	Newsroom Clip about Boston bombing crowdsourcing coverage; Debate: Technology enhances media democracy	Podcast: WWI and the Birth of Public Relations
1.14	Memes	Radiolab Blog on Memes Meme Lineage Report	Susan Blackmore, Richard Dawkins videos, Colbert Report, Colbert Report II Meme Lineage Report,	Susan Blackmore Blog
1.19	No Class - MLK Day	--	--	--
1.21	Collective Distraction, The Social Economy/The Attention Economy	Rushkoff Ch's 1&7	The Social Network Scene, DARPA video, Yochai Bentler TED talk High Frequency Trading videos 1 and 2, Jesse Gamble TED talk, NPR story on phantom cell phone vibrations	NPR Interview with Michael Lewis, author of Flash Boys & Wired, “Attention Shoppers!”
1.26	Technological Determinism	Rushkoff Ch. 3, Radiolab, Final Project Topic Proposals	“What Does Technology Want?”, Humans Need Not Apply	--
1.28	Analogue versus Digital	Hansen Introduction, Brain Communicates in Analogue and Digital Modes Simultaneously	Glitch Art (vagueterrain); Glitch Art Documentary (PBS); Debate: Technology is good for the economy/Technology is good for human intelligence	Hz Journal - Critical Glitches and Glitch Art
2.2	Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles	Rushkoff Ch. 4, NYT Article on Birther Movement	Jon Stewart on Crossfire, Chris Anderson TED Talk, Filter Bubble TED Talk, Clay Shirky TED Talk,	Jenkins Ch. 3
2.4	Simulacra	Matrix Wikia on Simulacra and The Matrix, Guardian article on Society of the Spectacle	Philosophy and the Matrix - Return to the Source	--
2.9	Society of the Spectacle	Rushkoff Ch. 5, Wikipedia Assignment	Moneyball trailer, Podcast on Society of the Spectacle, Clip from Newsroom	Beller p. 19-24
2.11	The Medium is the Message, Convergence	Jenkins Introduction	Hypertext Art, Podcast on McLuhan	Stevenson, p. 121-128
2.16	Remix Culture Part I	Rushkoff Ch. 9		--
2.18	Media Tools	Rushkoff Ch. 10	Media Lab: Meet in Digital Media Center in Anderson Academic Commons
2.23	Digital Ethics		RIP: A Remix Manifesto, Visit from Brendan Hughes	--
2.25	Digital Literacy/The Remix Culture	Rushkoff Ch. 6	Conceptual Speed Dating; Tutorial on CC licenses We Are Legion	--
3.2	Virtual Identities	Remix Assignment	Remix Assignment Presentations	Corpus Ch. 10
3.4	Digital Copyright	Tim Wu, What is Fair Use? Remix Defense Assignment	Globalizing the Local Video, Net Neutrality Videos 1 and 2,	Hoyt Dronestream
3.9	Digital Activism	Gladwell Article, Guardian Rebuttal to Gladwell	Digital Divide TED Talk, Lawrence Lessig TED Talk, Rushkoff Talk on Internet Activism; NPR Story - When Women Stopped Programming
3.11	Final Project Presentations	Final Project Presentations		--
3.12 11:59 pm	(no class)	Final Paper Due	--	--