schedule
Week 6: Online News
tuesday 2 may
- As students arrive ... take this time to read classmate
blogs
- Lecture / Reading Discussion / Discussion Leaders (ppt, student
questions)
- It is good to be able to find a variety of opinions and news on the
internet through blogging, but how can “average” people
know what to consider credible on the internet.
- Does capitalism stifle media outlets? Is commercialization of media
outlets avoidable? Or inevitable?
- How far do you think technology companies can go before they invade
personal privacy? What kind of information are you willing to give
up?
- When will major advertising companies start using the heavy traffic
blogs as another large medium for making money? Have they already?
What implications would this have?
- "A shallow citizenry can be turned into a dangerous mob more
easily than an informed one." How has blogging contributed to "shallow
citizenry"?
- What do you think would be different about the Internet had Berners-Lee
patented Hypertext Markup Language?
- Are we "going back in time" to a point when newpapers were
for an elite class and everything else was for everybody else?
thursday 4 may
assignments for next week
- Mid-Term Progress Report Due 5 pm Fri
- Send e-mail to c300-at-u.washington.edu with the subject line
COM 300 - Mid-Term Report
- Just let me know how you are doing. Short is OK! Questions are
OK!
- Responses (comments on class member blogs) due 5 pm
Fri
- Remember to keep a log of your comments - you will turn
in the log at the end of the quarter.
- Date
- Blog post you are replying to (title
and URL)
- Content of your comment
- Next
Assignment (pdf) (discuss - eSubmit - due next Friday )
- Reading reflection due by 5 pm Mon : [ 1 post] [
1 extra-credit post]
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