week 6 : 8 november
community
Reading for This EveningContents for this page:
- Agenda
- Questions about papers
- Student blogs of note this week
- Assignments for next week
- Notes from tonight's discussion
- Resources - Links
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Agenda
Guest speaker : Lee LeFever, online community and group discussion of The World is Flat
Speaker and Class Evaluation
- Lecture (pdf)
- Discussion : Friedman (groups 4 & 5)
- Discussion : Readings (groups 1 & 5) - see New Media Characteristics (pdf)
- Speaker Evaluation - Chris Pirillo (11 responses) and Class Session Feedback (* question )
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Questions about papers?
- Don't justify! Use flush left (ragged right)
- Remember to put your name on the paper
- Use eSubmit -- Word Docs or RTF only please (no PDFs - so that I can provide feedback "inline" in the electronic document)
- Reminder Mac folks : add the file extension!
- Student blogs of note this week:
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Assignments for Next Week:
- Speaker and Class Evaluation
- Reading Assignment. Reading summaries are due 8 am Monday before Tuesday's class unless otherwise noted.
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First paper due Wednesday 9 Nov @ 6 pm via eSubmit.
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 have prepared a template you can use.
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Notes from class discussion:
- Availability of info + ability to custommize (positive and negative)
- Too much information
- Positives and negatives are contextual
- Next generation -> will they spend more time online than face-to-face and what are those impacts on society?
- What is the impact of reliance of anonymity on society?
- Identity/privacy issues
- Insular
- Digital self - plus/minus
- Hard to find the right info
- Right/wrong -- good/bad -- should we even be making judgments
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Resources
- Group 1 Posts to Course (group) Blog
- Group 5 Posts to Course (group) Blog
- 43 people
- 43 places
- 43 things
- Creative Commons
- Lego Online Community Evangelist
- Match.com
- Online Statistics by Language
- PLATO: The Emergence of Online Community
- Share Your Story - March of Dimes
- The Troll
- WetLeather - Politics Graph
- WWW Beyond The Basics - Chapter 4 - Collaboration