180 Day 21 Notes
April 13, 2000
One Minute Papers
Big Point
Group interaction dynamics such as groupthink can have irrational or suboptimal effects
Leaders strongly influence groupthink
Has NASA made any management changes to avoid groupthink?
Why should we care about MUDs/MOOs? (Lots of anticipatory angst)
Do MOOs suggest we are becoming more insulated/less participatory?
2. The MOO experience
YOUR feelings
Did your palms sweat? Did you feel awkward?
Did you have a sense of being followed?
Were you in the room when the acrobatics began?
How would you have FELT if you had read “yourname punches Gary violently and knocks him unconscious”
How might you have reacted?
The Dibbell reading
Does a community require laws?
Is the Wizard's 'New Direction'
like US foreign policy?
Why is @gag not enough?
How is toading different from
death penalty (banishment)?
Was JoeFeedback a hero? A leader?
Would permanent virtual names
help?
Are the word and deed (the mind and body) merging in Information Society?
The media equation (handout)
We treat media like real life. We cannot help but doing so because we have old (biologically) brains.
Semester plan
Tue (4/18) Sonnenwald (Lesley Whedbee) & Constant et al (Sharon Yang)
Thur (4/20) Pool (Laura Agnew) communication networks; Smith and citation analysis
Tue (4/25) Doctor and Anderson et al. social informatics (note we will delete Harnad and Gasaway)
Thur (4/27) Project presentations begin
Tue (5/2) Project presentations continue
Thur (5/4) Project reports due
4. The one-minute paper concept
What was the big point you learned in class today?
What is the main, unanswered question you leave class with today?