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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 9:30 - 10:45 followed by Wikipedia edit-a-thon from 11am-1pm. Location and more details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Philadelphia/ArtAndFeminism_2016/Saint_Joseph%27s_University


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)

Marwick -- Chapter 6, “Designed in California” (27 pgs.) -- We didn't really have time to talk about this in the last class so let's try to wrap up Marwick today.

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

Key terms: rhetorical activities/practices/spaces, gendered affinities, digital civic engagement, digital citizenship, identity construction, cyberfeminism (add to the existing page about this term)


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

Response paper #2 due (focusing on any reading we've discussed in class since the previous deadline, Feb. 11)

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

Recommended: Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, “Autoethnography as engagement” [PDF on Dropbox]

Key terms: avatar, autoethnography, gender ambiguity, X-reality


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]

Rachel Syme, “SELFIE” https://medium.com/matter/selfie-fe945dcba6b0#.66t98nbsm

Chainsmokers, "#SELFIE" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdemFfbS5H0

This is another song about selfies that I thought was pretty funny and relevant for the class! -Sam L https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXh8B4yWVKk

Key terms: selfie, narcissism, self-esteem


3/17

Mid-term course grades due

Case studies:

Essena O’Neill

Mindi Jensen

Unit 2: online communities, trolls, and feminist futures

Week 9: trolling part I

3/22 (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/


3/24

Avatar photo essay due

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


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

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