Class schedule

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'