Archive: Fall 2014
Part One: Access and the Digital Divide
week one
W Aug 27 Welcome and introdctions/overview. View student site (Mirandy Li) from spring 2014.
Homework: read and write a blog post (simply write it; we will publish this later) on Jonathan Sterne's "The Computer Race Goes to Class: How Computers in Schools Helped Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet" from Race in Cyberspace.
Also: read this whole syllabus carefully. Begin coming up with ideas for your ethnography documentary project.
F Aug 29
a. Discuss your responses to "The Computer Race" and selected student blog posts I will present to you in class.
b. Discuss your questions about the syllabus.
c. Freewrite/brainstorm ideas for the ethnography documentary project.
d. If time, begin constructing your weebly site: pick a weebly domain name. Publish a homepage template to be constructed later, providing your name, a sentence about English 363, and a link back to this page. Email me your weebly domain name. Then publish a website for blogging only (this will house your 10 weekly blogs beginning right away), and link it reciprocally to your homepage.
Homework: read (and write part of a blog post due ) about "Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure" by Christian Sandvig, in (Race After the Internet. available at campus bookstore) (168-200).
week two
M Sep 1: Labor Day holiday, no classes
W Sep 3 View Mariam's site. Discuss navigation, subtitles, and domain name choices. Publish your blog if you have not done so. Postponed: Discuss "Indigenous Internet Infrastructure" and freewrite part of blog draft. Discuss ethnography documentary project ideas and proposals.
Revised Homework: write a blog post on "Indigenous" (Blog #2 due Friday 9/5)
F Sep 5 Discuss selected student blog posts.
Discuss "Indigenous" (originally planned for Sept 3) -- this is a 30+ page article found in the Nakamura collection (it is not online anywhere).
Map a draft of your first analytical hyperessay on paper (see left column for assignment 2) . Homework: read "New Voices on the Net: The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion" (Race After the Internet).
week three
M Sep 8 Homework: post a picture of your draft mapped hyperessay on your blog.
W Sep 10 Discuss "New Voices" and hyperessay maps.
Homework: read Kate Ellis and Mike Kent's "Does That Face-'Book' Come in Braille: Social Networking Sites and Disability" (available online via Emory Library's discoverE; you must log on if accessing off campus).
F Sep 12 Discuss "SNS and Disability." What can we learn from the Spring 2014 hyperessays?
Homework: choose one article from Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2003 on Gender and ICTs (information and communication technology). Look at spring 2014 student hyperessay proposals and draft yours; post to blog.
week six
M Sep 29 Continue to share hyperessays (Dalyla,
Cathy)
Discuss film assignment.
Hyperessay due. (Postpone: Discuss Jenkins)
Homework: read and write part blog post on Curtis Marez's "Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars" (Race After the Internet) .
Watch 2 student films: http://lgbtqinclusion.weebly.com/, http://yawen363.weebly.com/video.html,
Email me your film topic idea.
W Oct 1 (week 7 conference sign-ups) Discuss Marez and student films.
Homework: read Tara McPherson's "U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: the Intertwining of Race and UNIX" (Race After the Internet)
F Oct 3 blog due. Discuss McPherson. Pick 2 blogs of the week. Homework: film your interviews. Watch AFI tutorial and take notes.
Featured Blogs of the Week: Madeline takes down Marez's geographic credibility.
week seven: individual conferences in Modern Languages 104
Friday Oct 10: your movie topics: discussion (great participation, all who were there; keep it up)
week 8:
M fall break
W Oct 15
1.View and discuss Yawen's movie, finally. (excellent analysis, people)
Importance of *citation* in filmmaking (don't cannibalize other people's PSAs/TV shows etc; frame everything in clear language distinguishing external texts from your own; your responsibility to obey copyright law or else get taken down from Youtube, esp. with music use laws; using common domain music or getting permission from independent musicians etc.)
2. Brainstorm possibilities for critical mini-essays: a paragraph each on two outside sources relevant to your movie topic. (We saw Yawen's; look at the others.)
Homework: research critical mini-essays for movie website, draft them, publish them. Blog about your movie. Or blog the movie proposal.
F Oct 17 Blogs o'the Week! Discuss blog #6 and your movie websites-in-the-making
featured blogs of the week are:
Maria Berce EMAIL ME WHO ELSE
scheduled make-up conferences 12-2; contact me for times or take your previously scheduled time.
week ten
M Oct 27 student films: uncut excerpts (Greg, [Maria], Madeline, Kevin, [Alvin], Mariana, [Sungtae], Cathy
W Oct 29 student films: uncut excerpts (Michael, Annie, Nick, Abe, Chelsea, Lydia, Philip, Dalyla)
F Oct 31 student films: uncut excerpts HW: work on film
(NB: weeks 11 and 12 have disappeared after the fact; I will update this shortly . . . )
week thirteen
screenings and final hyperessay workshops
M Nov 17 share final hyperessay proposals
W Nov 19 demo final hyperessay maps
F Nov 21 Castells blog entry (pick any chapter)
week fourteen
M Nov 24 blog: final self-assessment re: CWPA goals.
Small group workshops and informal presentations of final hyperessay draft pages; student evals.
W Nov 26: Thanksgiving break, no classes
Sign up for an optional end-of-term conference; email me if these times do not work for you.
Blog list update coming soon. (The last blog was Nov. 21 on Castells).
Please reference Castells or another social media theorist in your activism hyperessay.
week fifteen
screenings and sharing final activism hyperessay works-in-progress
M Dec 1 intro draft due
W Dec 3 two further pages due
F Dec 5 two further pages due; final self-assessment re: CWPA goals
week sixteen
M Dec 8 wrap-up, final projects
Enjoy your winter break!
Part One: Access and the Digital Divide
week one
W Aug 27 Welcome and introdctions/overview. View student site (Mirandy Li) from spring 2014.
Homework: read and write a blog post (simply write it; we will publish this later) on Jonathan Sterne's "The Computer Race Goes to Class: How Computers in Schools Helped Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet" from Race in Cyberspace.
Also: read this whole syllabus carefully. Begin coming up with ideas for your ethnography documentary project.
F Aug 29
a. Discuss your responses to "The Computer Race" and selected student blog posts I will present to you in class.
b. Discuss your questions about the syllabus.
c. Freewrite/brainstorm ideas for the ethnography documentary project.
d. If time, begin constructing your weebly site: pick a weebly domain name. Publish a homepage template to be constructed later, providing your name, a sentence about English 363, and a link back to this page. Email me your weebly domain name. Then publish a website for blogging only (this will house your 10 weekly blogs beginning right away), and link it reciprocally to your homepage.
Homework: read (and write part of a blog post due ) about "Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain: Indigenous Internet Infrastructure" by Christian Sandvig, in (Race After the Internet. available at campus bookstore) (168-200).
week two
M Sep 1: Labor Day holiday, no classes
W Sep 3 View Mariam's site. Discuss navigation, subtitles, and domain name choices. Publish your blog if you have not done so. Postponed: Discuss "Indigenous Internet Infrastructure" and freewrite part of blog draft. Discuss ethnography documentary project ideas and proposals.
Revised Homework: write a blog post on "Indigenous" (Blog #2 due Friday 9/5)
F Sep 5 Discuss selected student blog posts.
Discuss "Indigenous" (originally planned for Sept 3) -- this is a 30+ page article found in the Nakamura collection (it is not online anywhere).
Map a draft of your first analytical hyperessay on paper (see left column for assignment 2) . Homework: read "New Voices on the Net: The Digital Journalism Divide and the Costs of Network Exclusion" (Race After the Internet).
week three
M Sep 8 Homework: post a picture of your draft mapped hyperessay on your blog.
W Sep 10 Discuss "New Voices" and hyperessay maps.
Homework: read Kate Ellis and Mike Kent's "Does That Face-'Book' Come in Braille: Social Networking Sites and Disability" (available online via Emory Library's discoverE; you must log on if accessing off campus).
F Sep 12 Discuss "SNS and Disability." What can we learn from the Spring 2014 hyperessays?
Homework: choose one article from Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2003 on Gender and ICTs (information and communication technology). Look at spring 2014 student hyperessay proposals and draft yours; post to blog.
week six
M Sep 29 Continue to share hyperessays (Dalyla,
Cathy)
Discuss film assignment.
Hyperessay due. (Postpone: Discuss Jenkins)
Homework: read and write part blog post on Curtis Marez's "Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the History of Star Wars" (Race After the Internet) .
Watch 2 student films: http://lgbtqinclusion.weebly.com/, http://yawen363.weebly.com/video.html,
Email me your film topic idea.
W Oct 1 (week 7 conference sign-ups) Discuss Marez and student films.
Homework: read Tara McPherson's "U.S. Operating Systems at Mid-Century: the Intertwining of Race and UNIX" (Race After the Internet)
F Oct 3 blog due. Discuss McPherson. Pick 2 blogs of the week. Homework: film your interviews. Watch AFI tutorial and take notes.
Featured Blogs of the Week: Madeline takes down Marez's geographic credibility.
week seven: individual conferences in Modern Languages 104
Friday Oct 10: your movie topics: discussion (great participation, all who were there; keep it up)
week 8:
M fall break
W Oct 15
1.View and discuss Yawen's movie, finally. (excellent analysis, people)
Importance of *citation* in filmmaking (don't cannibalize other people's PSAs/TV shows etc; frame everything in clear language distinguishing external texts from your own; your responsibility to obey copyright law or else get taken down from Youtube, esp. with music use laws; using common domain music or getting permission from independent musicians etc.)
2. Brainstorm possibilities for critical mini-essays: a paragraph each on two outside sources relevant to your movie topic. (We saw Yawen's; look at the others.)
Homework: research critical mini-essays for movie website, draft them, publish them. Blog about your movie. Or blog the movie proposal.
F Oct 17 Blogs o'the Week! Discuss blog #6 and your movie websites-in-the-making
featured blogs of the week are:
Maria Berce EMAIL ME WHO ELSE
scheduled make-up conferences 12-2; contact me for times or take your previously scheduled time.
week ten
M Oct 27 student films: uncut excerpts (Greg, [Maria], Madeline, Kevin, [Alvin], Mariana, [Sungtae], Cathy
W Oct 29 student films: uncut excerpts (Michael, Annie, Nick, Abe, Chelsea, Lydia, Philip, Dalyla)
F Oct 31 student films: uncut excerpts HW: work on film
(NB: weeks 11 and 12 have disappeared after the fact; I will update this shortly . . . )
week thirteen
screenings and final hyperessay workshops
M Nov 17 share final hyperessay proposals
W Nov 19 demo final hyperessay maps
F Nov 21 Castells blog entry (pick any chapter)
week fourteen
M Nov 24 blog: final self-assessment re: CWPA goals.
Small group workshops and informal presentations of final hyperessay draft pages; student evals.
W Nov 26: Thanksgiving break, no classes
Sign up for an optional end-of-term conference; email me if these times do not work for you.
Blog list update coming soon. (The last blog was Nov. 21 on Castells).
Please reference Castells or another social media theorist in your activism hyperessay.
week fifteen
screenings and sharing final activism hyperessay works-in-progress
M Dec 1 intro draft due
W Dec 3 two further pages due
F Dec 5 two further pages due; final self-assessment re: CWPA goals
week sixteen
M Dec 8 wrap-up, final projects
Enjoy your winter break!