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Fall 2007
Thursday, 5:10 - 6:50 PM
MY 345M
Office hours: Tue., 5 - 6:30 PM, MY 260
Sarah Lohnes, Instructor
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Schedule
- 9/6 Introduction
- 9/13 Tech Determinism & SCOT
- 9/20 The Information Society
- 9/27 CMC in ICTs
- 10/4 Identity
- 10/11 Place and the Blurring of Boundaries
- 10/18 Community
- 10/25 Article Presentations
- 11/1 Social Networks
- 11/8 Interaction
- 11/15 Mobile Communication
- 11/22 No Class -- Thanksgiving
- 11/29 Online Session
- 12/6 The Network Society
- 12/13 Final Presentations
- 12/20 Final Presentations
- Note: updated 10/5/2007
Contents |
Social and Communicative Aspects of Internet Communication Technologies (ICTs)
TOPIC 2: Interaction reconsidered: the how and where of social life on the Internet
Session 7: Community
10/18/07
How do we define community in the Internet era?
- Readings
- Jankowski, N. (2006). Creating community with media: History, theories, and scientific investigations. In L. Lievrouw & S. Livingstone (Eds.), The Handbook of New Media, Updated Student Edition (55-74). London: Sage.
- Baym, N. (1998). The emergence of on-line community. In S. Jones (Ed.), Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting computer-mediated communication and community (35-68). London: Sage. (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Hine, C. (2000). Virtual ethnography. London: Sage.
- Ch. 4: The making of a virtual ethnography (e-reserve on ClassWeb)
- Blog
- Now that you've identified some themes and begun to refine your questions, please reflect on (1) what do you think you need in order to move forward on your final project? (more concrete questions, more reading in a particular area, etc. etc.) and (2) How can you get what you need?
- In class
- download the community model
Tucker and Victoria - Flickr page
Tom and Bill - Canadian Expat Meetup
Devyani and Shenetta - Orkut
Gina and Ting Fang - Facebook
Lou and Perien - MySpace
Kristinia and Ting Fang - Studyplace
Caryn and Doug - Teach for America
Clemence and Nitin - CCNMTL Wiki
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