Week 1 (Blog: General Technology / Find Good New Blogs)
Thursday, January 12 :: Course Overview / Introductions / Blogging Intro and Walkthru
Handout Group Assignment 1 (Group Formation)
Websites: Endgadget, BoingBoing, SmartMobs, Wired News
Week 2 - JONES (Blog: Old Media / New Media / Old Media on New Media) (Thursday ANALYSIS??)
Tuesday, January 17 (Megan OUT) :: Historical Antecedents to New Media
H. G. Wells (1937). "World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia." New Encyclopedie Francaise. August, 1937. http://sherlock.berkeley.edu/wells/world_brain.html
Michael K. Buckland (1992). "Emanuel Goldberg,
Electronic Document Retrieval, And Vannevar Bush's Memex." Journal of
the American Society for Information Science 43, no. 4 (May 1992): 284-294.
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~buckland/goldbush.html
(optional and forthcoming):Miichael Buckland
(2006). Emanuel Goldberg and His Knowledge Machine : Information, Invention,
and Political Forces. Libraries Unlimited. Due out February, 2006.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313313326/
Vannevar Bush. As We May Think. In: From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar Bush and the Mind's Machine, edited by James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn, Boston: Academic Press, 1991, p. 85-112. Online at: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush
Thursday, January 19 :: What are New Media
Lev Manovich. New Media from Borges to HTML. In: The New Media Reader, edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003, p. 13-25. Preprint is online at: http://www.manovich.net/DOCS/manovich_new_media.doc
Group Assignment 1 (Group Formation) DUE
Handout
Group Assignment 2 (Documenting Artifact Usage)
Websites: Center for History and New Media; New Media Musings; Manovich.net; Rhizome.org; MIT Media Lab
Week 3 - WINGET (Blog: Cool User Studies / Cool New Products) (Tuesday ANALYSIS) (Thursday ANALYSIS)
Tuesday, January 24 :: Ethnographic Methods
Herbert J. Rubin and Irene S. Rubin. Chapters
7 and 10, "Structuring a Qualitative Interview" and "Data Analysis."
pp. 145-167; 226-256. In: Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. Sage Publications 1995. On Reserve in SILS
Adler, Patricia A. and Peter Adler (1994). "Observational
techniques," In Handbook of qualitative research, Norman Denzin and Yvonna
S. Lincon (eds.). Newbury Park: Sage, 1994, 377-392. On Reserve in SILS
Cathy Marshall. The Trouble with Scenarios
and Personas. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/mc-scenarios-personas.html
Atkinson, Paul & Hammersley, Martyn (1994). Ethnography
and Participant Observation. In Norman Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook
of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, pp.249-261. On Reserve in SILS.
Thursday, January 26 :: Design Concepts
Edward Tufte. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Addison, MA: On Reserve in SILS.
S. Joy Mountford. Tools and Techniques for Creative Design. In: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley, 1990, p. 17-30. On Reserve in SILS.
Donald A. Norman. Why Interfaces Don't Work. In: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley, 1990, p. 209-219. On Reserve in SILS.
Handout for Assignment
3 (Artifact Redesign to Enable New Forms of Programmability)
Handout: Assignment Tips
Week 4 - WINGET (Blog: Networking Policy Decisions / Copyright) (Tues ANALYSIS) (Thurs ANALYSIS)
Tuesday, January 31 :: History, Network Design Decisions
Lawrence Lessig. The Future of Ideas. The Fate of the Commons in the Connected World. New York: Random House, 2001. Chapters 1, 2, 3 (p. 3 - 48). (Class Handout).
Thursday, February 2 :: Computational Media (It's the End of the Web as We Know It)
Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture : How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin. Introduction and Part I, "Piracy" (pgs. 1 - 81). Online @: http://free-culture.org/freecontent/
Websites: Freedom to Tinker, Lessig Blog, EFF: Deep Links, Technology Liberation Front, Cyberlaw@ Stanford, OnTheCommons
Week 5 - JONES (Blog: New Search Engines / Collaborative Cataloging)
Tuesday, February 7 :: Search Engines & Ambient Findability
Charles Ferguson: What's Next for Google. Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech/wtr_14065,258,p1.html
Peter Morville (2002). "The Age of Findability." Boxes and Arrows. 04/29/2002. http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/the_age_of_findability
Peter Morville (2004). "Ambient Findability." Digital Design Magazine. 07/21/2004. http://www.digital-web.com/articles/ambient_findability
Website: Findability.org
Thursday, February 9 :: Collaborative Cataloging - Folksonomies
Clay Shirky (2004). "Folksonomy."
Many 2 Many: A group weblog on social software. 08/25/2004.
http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/08/25/folksonomy.php
Joshua Schachter, (del.icio.us), Stewart Butterfield (Flickr), Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) and Clay Shirky (2005). "Folksonomy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess." Video of panel at Emerging Technology 2005. 03/16/2005. http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail464.html
Cathy Marshall, Taking a Stand on the Semantic Web. http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/~marshall/mc-semantic-web.html
How to tag on Technorati. http://technorati.com/help/tags.html and examples http://technorati.com/tags/
Project Assignment 2: Observing Artifact Usage Due
Week 6 - JONES (blog: talk about the in class activity / Networks)
Tuesday, February 14 :: Ambient Intelligence - SAMIRA ANALYSIS
From: G. Riva (Editor), F. Vatalaro (Editor), F. Davide (Editor), M. Alcaniz (Editor) (2005).Ambient Intelligence: The evolution of technology, communication and congnition towards the future of human-computer interaction. Emerging.Communication IOS Press. http://www.vepsy.com/communication/volume6.html [select no more that three chapters]
Mariano Alcaniz and Beatriz Rey. "New Technologies for Ambient Intelligence." http://www.vepsy.com/communication/book5/01_AMI_Alcaniz.pdf
Giuseppe Riva (2005). "The Psychology
of Ambient Intelligence: Activity, Situation and Presence."
http://www.vepsy.com/communication/book5/02_AMI_Riva.pdf
Patti Maes (2005). MIT's Ambient Intelligence Group. Vision, Short PPT intro. Syllabus for her Ambient Intelligence class.
Thursday, February 16 :: Intro to Networks - SAGAR ANALYSIS
Networks (Small World Network Primer)
Malcolm Gladwell. "Six degrees of Lois Weisberg" New Yorker, 1999.
Duncan J. Watts. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, p. 43-68. (Class handout)
Handout: Assignment 4 (Enabling Social Communication)
Week 7 - WINGET (Blog: Social Websites & Social Uses of Phones)
Tuesday, February 21 :: Social Uses - Websites - JOHN ANALYSIS
Tad Hogg & Lada Adamic. "Enhancing Reputation Mechanisms via Online Social Networks." EC’04, May 17–20, 2004, New York, New York, USA. ACM Press. @ http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/socrep/socrep.pdf
danah michele boyd. "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking" CHI 2004, April 24–29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. ACM Press. @ http://www.danah.org/papers/CHI2004Friendster.pdf
Steve Harrison and Paul Dourish. "Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems." in: Proceedings of ACM Conference on CSCW. New York: ACM Press, 1996, p. 67-76. @ http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/publications/1996/cscw96-place.pdf
*Websites: Friendster, Orkut, LinkedIn, FaceBook
Thursday, February 23 - Social Uses of Cell phones - BYRON ANALYSIS
Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe. Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use. 2003. @ http://www.itofisher.com/PEOPLE/mito/mobileemail.pdf
Alex S. Taylor and Richard Harper. (2001) "Group Spaces: Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users." Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. p. 439-446. ACM Digital Library
Nancy Van House, Marc Davis, Morgan Ames, Megan Finn, Vijay Viswanathan. "The Uses of Personal Networked Digital Imaging: An Empirical Study of Cameraphone Photos and Sharing" CHI 2005 April 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA. ACM Press. @ http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse/van_house_chi_short.pdf
*Websites: Dodgeball.com, Playtxt, Jambo, Mizuko Ito's Blog
Week 8 - WINGET (Blog: Games)
Tuesday, February 28 :: Social Uses - Games - DANIEL ANALYSIS
Nicolas Ducheneaut and Robert J. Moore. "The Social Side of Gaming: A Study of Interaction Patterns in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game" CSCW’04, November 6–10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA. ACM Press. @ http://www.parc.com/research/publications/files/5223.pdf
Thursday, March 2 :: Gaming - BETH ANALYSIS
Henry Jenkins. Art Form for the Digital Age, MIT Technology Review, (September/October 2000). http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/00/09/viewpoint0900.asp
Jane McGonigal. A Real Little Game: The Performance of Belief in Pervasive Play. In: Digital Games Research Associaton (DiGRA) "Level Up" Conference Proceedings. November, 2003. http://avantgame.com/MCGONIGAL%20A%20Real%20Little%20Game%20DiGRA%202003.pdf
Celia Pearce. "Sims, BattleBots, Cellular Automata God and Go: A Conversation with Will Wright by Celia Pearce." Game Studies: The International Journal of Computer Game Research 2 (1):1-17, 2002. http://www.gamestudies.org/0102/pearce/
Group Assignment 3 (Enabling Programmability)
DUE
Handout: Assignment 5 (Enabling New Forms of Game
Play)
Week 9 - WINGET - Introduction to Gaming (Blog: )
Tuesday, March 7 - Games and the Web - REBECCA ANALYSIS
Thursday, March 9 :: Let's Play a Game
Week 10 - SPRING BREAK!!!
Week 11 - WINGET (Blog: Networked Gaming - Phones and Websites)
Tuesday, March 21 - Phones - MARK ANALYSIS
Phone Games
Thursday, March 23 - Websites - STEPHEN ANALYSIS
Website Games
Week 12 - JONES (Blog: Podcasting)
Tuesday, March 28: Games within Games
Brian Russell (2004). "Podcasting Tutorial and Intro." 12/24/2004. http://www.audioactivism.org/?p=37
Websites: Odeo (complete Podcasting solution), Podcastercon 2006, Podcast Maker (for Macs), Apple Garage Band Podcast Tutorial (good general hints here), WebMonkey Podcast Tutorial (Dec. 12, 2005), Create Podcasts Using Your PC.
Thursday, March 30: ???
Time to work on podcast
Group Assignment 4 (Enabling New Forms of Social Communication) DUE
Week 13 - JONES (Blog: ) (Tues ANALYSIS) (Thurs ANALYSIS)
Tuesday, April 4
Work on Podcast
Thursday, April 6
Bob Young Guest speaker. Founder of Red Hat Linux and lulu.com
Week 14 - JONES = Web 2.0 and Security (Blog: Web 2.0 & Security)
Tuesday, April 11 ANALYSIS - SMITH
Tim O'Reilly (2005). "What is Web 2.0: Designing Patterns
and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software." 09/30/2005.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html
Russell Shaw (2005). "Web 2.0? It doesn't exist."
ZDNet. 12/17/2005. http://blogs.zdnet.com/ip-telephony/?p=805
Website: Richard MacManus's Web 2.0 Explorer
Thursday, April 13
Guest speaker. Zack Exley Directed on-line organizing and communications for Howard Dean, John Kerry and the British Labour Party.Group Assignment 5 (Enabling Game Play) DUE
Week 15 - JONES
Tuesday, April 18 ANALYSIS MELVIN
Bruce Schneier (2005). "The Hackers are coming." Utility Automation & Engineering T&D 12/13/2005 also http://www.schneier.com/essay-097.html
Becky Bright interviews Bruce Schneier (2005). "Recommended Reading:Getting Smart About Information Security." The Wall Street Journal. 07/18/2005.http://www.schneier.com/news-011.html
Website: Bruce Schneier's blog
Thursday, April 20 :: The Wealth of Networks`
Earlier in the semester, I mentioned Yochai Benkler of Yale who I consider to be the most brilliant thinker on intellectual property and social effects as regards information technologies. Benkler has just released his book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, in print (from Yale and from Amazon) but also as a free download in PDF.
I'm expecting you to read Chapter 1. Introduction: A Moment of Opportunity and Challenge which you may download from this URL
http://www.benkler.org/wealth_of_networks/index.php/Download_PDFs_of_the_book
Don't panic! It's less than 30 pages. While the chapter is a call to action and a justification for writing the book, it also touches on most of the topics we've mentioned in the course of the semester.
I think it's a great set of thoughts and a strong argument to engage with.
Week 16 ?! - Presentations
Tuesday, April 25
Group 1, 2
Thursday, April 27
Group 3, 4
Assignment 6 - Podcast DUE on last day of classes, April 28, by 5 PM.