week 7 : 14 november

Activism, NFP

  • Guest Lecture: David Silver, Sarah Washburn, and John Klockner
    The September Project
    Speaker Evaluation
  • Reading Review : ePost question
    What do you see as the future role of new media in public discourse? How is it similar to or different from other break-through media?

    • Ginny: When it becomes possible for us to look up the specific answer to a question, rather than surveying information to come up with our own answers, do we lose the ability to consider many options--instead focusing on the easiest available answer?
    • Various: how has the telephone changed the way we shop? (think telemarketing (push) and mail order (pull))? how is the Net different - or is it an amplification?
    • Susan: He or she with the most education wins. Implications for control of resources, impact of Net on globalization?
    • Jac: concept of efficiency and Joe: elaboration on interpersonal communication "needs"
    • Ron: how do we "connect" instead of "divide"?
    • Piper: "main street" for connection - new definitions
  • Discussion of papers and presentations
    • Check your UW e-mail account Tuesday morning for a copy of your paper with comments.
    • Due time for the next two papers has also been moved to 11 pm.
    • The turn-in area for papers #2 and #3 has been renamed. Paper #2 is explicitly titled "the present" and paper #3 is explicitly titled "the past." Please "ignore" the remaining category; several students used this as the submittal area for "the past."
    • Reminder: 15 scholarly or academic sources required in total.
    • Review this explanation of how to use ibid when you have multiple refernces to the same source document; see section 16.47 of Chicago; use short citations when appropriate.
    • Reminder: the proposal is a planning tool; it is not graded (except completed/did not complete)! Deviations from the proposal do not affect your grade, although they can affect the time required for the three papers in total. I'm open to suggestions for another 'name' for this assignment.
    • For readability, please do not "justify" your type in Word. "Flush left" is the most appropriate formatting.
    • Avoid dangling participles. See also Bartleby ; this Writing Guide ; and NakedTranslations (an intriguing blog)
    • If you use headers, remember to make the first page "different" so that there is no page number in the upper left corner of page one.
    • I've prepared a template document that you can use. It's in the pub directory.
    • Presentations
      - Please review the presentation guidelines from the syllabus.
      - Each student will complete an evaluation for each presentation (excepting your own, unless you so desire). These are "UW Net ID" required WebQ forms; the evaluations are open from 6pm the night of the presentation until 6pm the following Tuesday. Those of you with laptops can do this is realtime (perhaps); others will need to take notes and transfer to the electronic medium.
      - Any student who would like to see a summary of evalulations (for self, only) may request one; I will remove personally-identifying information (UW NetID) before transmittal.
  • Assignment (Week 8 - 22 November)
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