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The weekly schedule functions as your day-by-day guide to this learning community. It itemizes your assignments and their due dates and your weekly preparatory work for class meetings. The online version includes links to online readings.

January 25th: Introduction to course and digital literacy

February 1st: Digital Literacy & the Information R/evolution

Assigned readings:

Livingston, Sonia. “Internet Literacy: Young People’s Negotiation of New Online Opportunities” (on dropbox).
Thompson, Clive. “On the New Literacy,” Wired Magazine 17.09
Some concepts: Wikipedia, Information Literacy (first three sections) & Digital Literacy (all sections)
Humanity Lobotomy: Second Draft (video; net neutrality)

February 8th: Internet Literacy & the Information R/evolution continued . . .

Assigned readings:

Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic, July/August, 2008.
Bowman, James. “Is Stupid Making Us Google?” The New Atlantis, Number 21, Summer 2008.
Sherry Turkle, “Can You Hear Me Now?” Forbes (May 5, 2007)
Watch: A Vision of Students Today & Information R/evolution
Yoffe, Emily. “Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And Why that’s dangerous.” Slate, August 12, 2009.

February 15th: Web 2.0 & Digital Literacy – Debates on Reading

Assigned readings:

O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0?”
Watch: Web 2.0 & Web 2.0 … The Machine is Watching Us
NEA: “To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence”
Mitoko Rich, "Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading?" New York Times Book Review, July 27 2008.
Levy, Steven. “The Future of Reading,” Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2007 (on dropbox).
Weisberg, Jacob. “Curling Up with A Good Screen,” Newsweek, Mar 21, 2009.

February 22nd: “Collective Intelligence” and “Convergence”

Assigned readings:

Chocano, Carina. (2012). "The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg," The New York Times. January 27.
Mosco, Vincent. “Brand New World? Globalization, Cyberspace, and the Politics of Convergence (Key Note Address) (on dropbox).
Langlois, Ganaele and Greg Elmer, “Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format” (on dropbox).
Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Medias Collide, Introduction (on dropbox).

February 29th: Social Networking and Virtual Communities

Assigned readings:

Boyd, Danah. “White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook”
“Social Media & Mobile Internet Use Among Teens and Young Adults”
Strohmeyer, Robert. “Are Baby Boomers Killing Facebook and Twitter?” ComputerWorld, May 20, 2009.

March 7th: Open-Source / P2P File Sharing

Assigned readings:

Kusek, David and Gerd Leonhard. “The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution” (on dropbox).
Tenenbaum, Joel. “How it feels to be sued for 4.5m,” Guardian.co.uk, July 27, 2009.
Swaim, Michael. (2007). “Radiohead Effectively Solves Internet Music Theft”
Brown, Jonathan. “Radiohead album goes live on the internet”
Coyle, Jake. “Radiohead’s experiment rocks music industry”

March 14th: SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS

March 21st: Digital Revolutions & Smart Mobs

Assigned readings:

Morozov, Evgeny, “Think Again Twitter,” Foreign Policy, August 6, 2009.
Harris, Leslie. “Online Activism Isn’t Dead,” Center For Democracy & Technology, July 2, 2009.
Nicholson, Judith A. “Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity,” Fibreculture Journal, Issue 6.
Stöcker, Christian, Carolin Neumann, and Thorsten Dörting, “Ahmadinejad’s Fear of the Internet,” Spiegel Online International, June 18, 2009.
Browse through the DigiActive: A World of Digital Activists web site.
“Twitter’s Role in the Iranian Revolution” June 16, 2009
Morozov, Evgeny. “Iran Elections: A Twitter Revolution?” June 17, 2009
“WikiLeaks” & “Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks”

March 28th: Fandom / Digital Mashing

Guest lecturer: Sara Marie Massee, Cultural Studies, GMU, on fandom and digital mashing.

Assigned readings:

Russo: "User-Penetrated Content: Fan Video in the Age of Convergence" (on dropbox).
Coppa: "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness" (on dropbox).
De Kosnik: "Should Fan Fiction Be Free?" (on dropbox).
Jenkins: "How to Watch A Fan Vid"

WORKSHOP ON PROJECTS

April 4th: Peer Teaching

Chris Byers

Jaddah Collins

Mark Romero

Virginia Lynch

Chip Martin

Jessica Lee

Marc Hopkins

April 11th: Peer Teaching

Alisa So

Chris Brown

Jordan Estrada

Marian Ampofo

Diana Gonzales

Melissa Edwards

Steve Hanifi

April 18th: Peer Teaching

Mariam Alwarith

Karen Sykes, Maneula Kamai, & Mandissa Marshall

Asia Gruber

Jonathan Doles & Erin Amos

David Williams

Brittany Webster

April 25th: NO CLASS - TEACHER AT CONFERENCE

May 2nd: Experiential Learning Projects due; Groups will present their projects to the class

May8th: FINAL REFLECTION PAPERS DUE by NOON via email!