:: evolution and trends in digital media technologies ::

Week 4 : 21 October
online communities

Tonight's Schedule

• Permanent: Change Room to 287
• Review readings
• Review catalyst, proposals
  • Final Proposal - Class Peer Group - voluntary submittals
• Diffusion Theory, continued
  
  
• Guest Speaker : Marc Smith, Microsoft
  
  Marc Smith is a Research Sociologist in the Collaborative and Multimedia Systems Group.
  
  He focuses on the research and design of social cyberspaces. In particular he is interested in the emergence of social organizations like communities in online environments and the resources groups need in order to cooperate productively.
  
  

Notes

• PPTs, etc

Assignments for week 5:

1. Marc Smith Speaker Evaluation
   
   
2. First paper due. Use eSubmit
   
   
3. Readings (please summarize and ePost)
   • "Guides redefine mass media." Forrester Report, December 2001. (eReserve)
   • eReserve course page; see the folder named "week 5".