week 4 : 25 october
online media
- Guest Speaker: Stanley Farrar, Seattle Times Online
(Speaker evaluation)
- Reading Review - PG5
- Lecture - Computers and Society (ppt)
- Notes:
- All eReserve readings are now at root (not in folders). Apologies
again for mis-filing Mediamorphosis.
- Also, a reminder that
if you need to reach me F/S/S the best thing is to mail me at kathy-at-dotparagon-dot-com
and mark the mail urgent. (This was communicated via the class mailing list.)
You also have my cellphone number in the syllabus!
- You must use your UW e-mail address as the "from" address for the class list.
- Reminder: please use eSubmit for papers. You'll get a confirmation (proof) of the submission
and I'll get all documents in one downloadable package (instead of 26 separate e-mails).
Thanks.
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Assignment (Week 5 - 1 November)
- Read "Communities in Cyberspace" - eReserve.
Review (in preparation for guest speaker):
History of UseNet;
What is Usenet, The Evolution of UseNetThe Great ReNaming
- ePost: what types of community have you experienced online? how
have they differed from off-line communities? how do you judge credibility online?
how do you determine leaders?
- Discussion Leaders:
Read Chapters 4 and 6 Winston. How has the concept of broadcasting changed?
What are the new broadcast technologies? How do they impact society and community?
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Resources
- Seattle Times - In the womb of water ... unwound
- Tragedy of the Commons, Garrett Hardin, Science, 162(1968):1243-1248. See also essays on The Commons;
A Nobel laureate's warning on the Net's shared resources (Forbes, 2001);
Tragedy of the Commons Re-stated (1997);
The Tragedy of the Electronic Commons (Howard Rheingold, 1994);
The Tragedy of the Advertising Commons (eReserve);
WikiPedia (also
externality)
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How can we measure the influence of the blogosphere? (pdf), Kathy E. Gill, WWW2004, May 17–22, 2004, New York, NY USA.
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