Class schedule
Contents
Unit 1: web 2.0 and the digital self
Week 1: hi
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/ (please also read the two follow-up posts)
Lisa Nakamura, “Queer Female of Color: The Highest Difficulty Setting There Is?” http://adanewmedia.org/2012/11/issue1-nakamura/
Watch video during 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
Key terms: privilege, gamer culture, patriarchy
Week 2: a free and open web?
1/25 (Monday)
add/drop deadline
1/26
Alice Marwick, Status Update 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 (published in 2007, it captures a specific moment of early 2000s) http://www.pewinternet.org/2007/12/19/teens-creating-content/
1/27 (Wednesday)
Jackson 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: performing the self
2/2 (Wiki updates: groups 1 and 2)
Marwick Chapter 3, “Micro-celebrities” (50 pgs.)
Key terms: micro-celebrity, authenticity, anti-fan, attention economy
2/4 (Wiki updates: groups 2 and 3)
Marwick Chapter 4, “Self-branding” (40 pgs.)
Rob Cover, “Understanding Identity Online: Social Networking” (25 pgs.) [PDF on Dropbox]
Judith Butler, excerpt from Gender Trouble (9 pgs.) [PDF on Dropbox]
A short video that illustrates Goffman's theory of self-presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M279taSj8cI
Key terms: performativity, self-branding, the edited self, emotional labor, neoliberal subject
Week 4: Wikipedia
2/9
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/
Intro to Wikipedia editing brochure: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Editing_Wikipedia_brochure_%28Wiki_Education_Foundation%29.pdf
"Your first article" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article
Bryce Peake, “Misogynist Infopolitics” http://adanewmedia.org/2015/04/issue7-peake/
Create an account on wikipedia.org by today.
2/11 **** MEET IN BRONSTEIN HALL, SUNROOM, TODAY. BRING A LAPTOP IF YOU HAVE ONE. ****
Response paper #1 due
Wikipedia workshop with Andy Famiglietti
Choose the article(s) you will work on for the Wikipedia project. Type their titles on your Sandbox page. Gather 2-3 potential sources for your Wikipedia articles(s) and type up their citation information in your Sandbox page.
Week 5: feminisms
2/16 (Wiki updates: groups 3 and 1)
bell hooks, “Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression” [PDF on Dropbox]
Sara Ahmed, “Feminist Consciousness” http://feministkilljoys.com/2015/10/18/feminist-consciousness/
Jessie Daniels, “Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment” http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wsq/v037/37.1-2.daniels.html
Browse everyday sexism project: http://everydaysexism.com/
Key terms: feminism, cyberfeminism, identity tourism, intersectionality
2/18
summer course registration begins (tentative date)
By today, save your Wikipedia article draft in your Sandbox for peer review. If you are expanding an existing article instead of creating a new article, please add the whole article to your Sandbox, including your changes (which should be big, like a new section or two), and have a system for keeping track of what you added and what is original. Also, bring 3 printouts of your article (the entire article(s) you have been working on) to class. Before you publish your contributions, we will edit and discuss them as a group
Week 6: EDIT-A-THON WEEK!!
2/23
Marwick Chapter 5, “Lifestreaming” (40pgs.) and Chapter 6, “Designed in California” (27 pgs.)
"Final" article complete and “live” on Wikipedia
2/25
No class meeting -- please attend the edit-a-thon instead
Saturday 2/27
Michelle Moravec speaking in Bronstein Hall in the morning (time TBA) followed by Wikipedia edit-a-thon from approx. 11am-1pm.
By Sunday 2/28: Wikipedia reflection essay due via email to Rachael
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)
Response paper #2 due (focusing on any course material covered between 2/11 and today)
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]
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
- O'Neill: “Let’s be game changers” [PDF on Dropbox]
- Gaby Dunn, "Get rich or die vlogging" http://fusion.net/story/244545/famous-and-broke-on-youtube-instagram-social-media/
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” http://twentytwo.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-156-hacking-the-social-internet-memes-identity-antagonism-and-the-logic-of-lulz/
Week 10: trolling part II
3/29 (Wiki updates: groups 2 and 3)
Fall course registration begins (tentative date)
Adrienne Massanari, “#Gamergate and The Fappening: How Reddit’s algorithm, governance, and culture support toxic technocultures” http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/10/07/1461444815608807.full.pdf+html
3/30 (Wednesday)
last day to withdraw from courses
3/31 (Wiki updates: groups 3 and 1)
Michelle Goldberg, “Feminism’s Toxic Twitter Wars” http://www.thenation.com/article/feminisms-toxic-twitter-wars/
Caitlin Gunn, “Hashtagging from the margins: women of color engaged in feminist consciousness-raising on Twitter” [PDF on Dropbox]
Recommended: “How black people may or may not use Twitter” http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2010/08/16/129235517/how-black-people-may-or-may-not-use-twitter
Week 11: feminist online community
4/5
Reading on feminist design (TBA)
Laurie Ouellette and Jacquelyn Arcy, “‘Live through this’: feminist care of the self 2.0” [PDF on Dropbox]
Michel Foucault, Technologies of the Self - Chapter 2, Part I only (7 pgs.) http://monoskop.org/images/0/03/Technologies_of_the_Self_A_Seminar_with_Michel_Foucault.pdf
Recommended: Michel Foucault, “Self Writing” http://foucault.info/documents/foucault.hypomnemata.en.html
4/7
Response paper #3 due (focusing on a reading between 3/15 and today)
No class today (Rachael out of town)
Week 12: final project proposals
4/12
Guest speaker via Skype, Jeremy Boggs from Take Back the Archive project
4/14
Proposals due for final project (social network prototype)
Week 13
4/19
Whitney Phillips, “We’re the reason we can’t have nice things online” http://qz.com/582113/were-the-reason-we-cant-have-nice-things-online/
Fembot Toolkit: anonymity and d0xxxing
4/21
Work on final projects
Week 14
4/26
Response paper #4 due (the final response paper can focus on any of the readings we discussed throughout the semester)
Work on final projects
4/28
Social network prototype projects (version 1.0) due
Exam period, important dates
5/3: Reading day
5/9
Social network prototype projects FINAL VERSION due.
Participation essay due.
(There is no formal final exam in this class.)
5/14: Commencement
5/16: Deadline for instructors to post final course grades on The Nest
