week 3 : 17 october
diffusion theory
Reading for This Evening- Volunteer from Group 1 to join Group 2 - Kevin volunteered
- Reading review and lecture
- Tonight's lecture (pdf)
- Highlights from student blog posts
- southpark tool
- Amazon Reader - demo
- Hitchcock's first talkie - Blackmail (Amazon, IMDB) - 1929
- Economist Article on Telecom & Convergence (from Kevin - pdf)
- Discussion of papers, proposals. Proposals should provide overview of the focus of each of the papers (methodology). Also, it's not too early to begin compiling information for your annotated bibliography (pdf) that is submitted with your final paper.
- Search demo - scholarly articles on Proquest
- Next Week -- small groups begin leading discussion! See reading
assignment for details.
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Assignments for Next Week:
- Reading Assignment. Reading summaries are due 8 am Monday before Tuesday's class unless otherwise noted.
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Resources
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Supplemental reading from prior classes:
- "Adding Value in the Information Age: Uses and Gratifications of Sites on the World Wide Web" by J. Eighmey and L. McCord. (science direct off campus - pdf)
- Are Customer Kings by Jeff Sweat.
- The Ever-Shifting Internet Population by Pew Internet Research (pdf)
- "Impacts of Net-generation attributes, seductive properties of the Internet, and gratifications-obtained on Internet use" by L. Leung. (science direct - offcampus - pdf)
- "The Importance of Electronic Communication: Where We've Been, Where We Are Now, and What's Coming" by Betsy Joyce. (proquest)
- "In search of sweet and untainted joy: society and technology often obscure this elusive emotion, but it can be recaptured through nature" by Harry Eyres. (proquest)
- Is the Internet Affecting the Social Skills of Our Children? by Bob Affonso
- Surviving & Thriving In The Information Age: Ten suggestions for finding meaning in the chaos of the Information Age by Knute Berger.
- Understanding the emerging media ecology by Sashi Kumar.
- "Unintended Consequences" by Mark Gibb (proquest)
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Supplemental reading from prior classes: