Class schedule

Unit 1: web 2.0 and the digital self

Week 1

1/19

Introduction to the class

1/21

John Scalzi, “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is” http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/ Lisa Nakamura, “Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is?” http://adanewmedia.org/2012/11/issue1-nakamura/

Watch video in class: “The web turns 25” http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2014/03/11/orig-natpak-world-wide-web-turns-25-internet-history-flashbacks.cnn

Week 2: a free and open web?

1/26

add/drop deadline Alice Marwick introduction and Chapter 1, “Web 2.0” (70 pgs.)

Recommended: Women’s stories of web 2.0 and empowerment https://www.worldpulse.com/en/get-involved/take-action/236 Recommended: Teens creating online content (2007) http://www.pewinternet.org/2007/12/19/teens-creating-content/

1/27 (Wednesday)

Jason Katz presentation, 7pm in the Foley Center

1/28

Biakolo, “Whose Internet Is It Anyway?: A Dialogue On Race, Gender, And The Digital Space” http://thoughtcatalog.com/kovie-biakolo/2014/03/whose-internet-is-it-anyway-a-dialogue-on-race-gender-and-the-digital-space/

Week 3: Wikipedia

2/2 (Wiki updates: groups 1 and 2)

Sarah Sentilles, “Writing Her In: Wikipedia As Feminist Activism” http://msmagazine.com/blog/2014/05/21/writing-her-in-wikipedia-as-feminist-activism/ Michelle Moravec, “If You Care About Women, You Should Edit Wikipedia Differently” http://march.rutgers.edu/2015/02/if-you-care-about-women-you-should-edit-wikipedia-differently/ Bryce Peake, “Misogynist Infopolitics” http://adanewmedia.org/2015/04/issue7-peake/

2/4

Wikipedia workshop with Andy Famiglietti Response paper #1 due'

Week 4: performing the self

2/9 (Wiki updates: groups 2 and 3)

Marwick Chapter 3, “Micro-celebrities” (50 pgs.)

2/11 (Wiki updates: groups 3 and 1)

Marwick Chapter 4, “Self-branding” (40 pgs.) Foucault, Technologies of the Self Chapter 2, Part I only http://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Technologies_of_the_Self_A_Seminar_with_Michel_Foucault.pdf Rob Cover, “Understanding Identity Online: Social Networking” [PDF on Dropbox]

Recommended: Michel Foucault, “Self Writing” http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.hypomnemata.en.html

Week 5: feminisms

2/16 (Wiki updates: groups 1 and 2)

bell hooks, “Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression” [PDF on Dropbox] Excerpt from Lorde, I Am Your Sister [PDF on Dropbox] Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Consciousness” http://feministkilljoys.com/2015/10/18/feminist-consciousness/ Browse everyday sexism project: http://everydaysexism.com/ In class: watch Charli XCX, “The F-Word”

2/18 (Wiki updates: groups 2 and 3)

summer course registration begins (tentative date)

Jesse Daniels, “Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment” http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wsq/v037/37.1-2.daniels.html

Week 6: EDIT-A-THON WEEK!!

2/23 (Wiki updates: groups 3 and 1)

Marwick Chapter 5, “Lifestreaming” (40pg.) and Chapter 6, “Designed in California” (27 pgs.)

2/25

Wikipedia project due today. (No class meeting)

Saturday 2/27 Michelle Moravec speaking in Bronstein Hall in the morning (time TBA) followed by Wikipedia edit-a-thon from approx. 11am-1pm.

Week 7: social media and gender

3/1 (Wiki updates: groups 1 and 2)

Katie DeLuca, “‘Can we block these political thingys? I just want to get f*cking recipes’: Women, Rhetoric, and Politics on Pinterest” http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/19.3/topoi/deluca/index.html

Julie Wilson and Emily Chivers Yochim, “Pinning Happiness: Affect, Social Media, and the Work of Mothers” [PDF on Dropbox]

3/3 (Wiki updates: groups 2 and 3)

Henry Jenkins interviews Beth Coleman http://henryjenkins.org/2012/04/our_avatars_our_selves_an_inte.html Sarah Liao, “My Metamorphic Avatar Journey” http://vcg.emitto.net/3vol/liao.pdf Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, “Autoethnography as engagement” [PDF on Dropbox] Response paper #2 due (focusing on a reading between 2/4 and today)

3/7 – 3/11, Spring break week

Week 8: selfies

3/15 (Wiki updates: groups 3 and 1)

Excerpt from Joseph Reagle, Reading the Comments pgs. 121-134 [PDF on Dropbox] Anne Burns, “Selfie-Correction” http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/selfie-correction/ Rachel Syme, “SELFIE” https://medium.com/matter/selfie-fe945dcba6b0#.66t98nbsm I will bring Kim Kardashian's book Selfish to class.

3/17

Mid-term course grades due

Case studies

Essena O’Neill: “100 shots, one day of not eating” http://www.elle.com/culture/news/a31635/essena-oneill-instagram-social-media-is-not-real-life/ “Let’s be game changers” [PDF on Dropbox]

Mindi Jensen: "Teacher almost Fired" http://www.people.com/article/utah-teacher-almost-fired-over-body-building-pictures Facebook post 1: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1641294849451847&set=a.1386214251626576.1073741829.100007140424077&type=3&theater Facebook post 2: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1687953914785940&set=a.1386214251626576.1073741829.100007140424077&type=3&theater

Unit 2: online communities, trolls, and feminist futures

Week 9: trolling part I

3/22

Avatar photo essay due Video in class: “Generation Like” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/

3/24 (Wiki updates: groups 1 and 2)

Excerpt from Karla Mantilla’s book Gendertrolling: How Misogyny Went Viral [PDF on Dropbox] Ellen Pao, “The trolls are winning” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/we-cannot-let-the-internet-trolls-win/2015/07/16/91b1a2d2-2b17-11e5-bd33-395c05608059_story.html

Recommended: Ryan Milner, “Hacking the Social: Internet Memes, Identity Antagonism, and the Logic of Lulz”