TEL 555 Schedule
(Updated: May 23, 2001)Cyberspace and Communication
Summer 2001Monday - Thursday 1:00 - 3:00 PM
EGJ 223 (Journalism Building)
CC refers to "Composing Cyberspace"
Schedule of Classes, Readings, and Assignments:
MAY 8 - Introduction to the course and Information Society - LECTURE NOTES
Explore:
- Defining list of New Media Characteristics
MAY 9 and 10 - History of New Media, Data, and Networks, and the Digital World - LECTURE NOTES
Read:
- Woolley, "Cyberspace" in CyberReader
- Bush, "Excerpts from 'As We May Think'" in Internet Dreams
- Caldwell, "Introduction: Theorizing the Digital Land Rush" in Electronic Media and Technoculture
- Winston, "Introduction: A Storm from Paradise..."
Read These Web Resources:
- Rheingold, Visionaries and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net in Virtual Communities
Optional web reading:
Never too early to think about the final project. I will discuss a number of alternatives in class this week.
MAY 14 - Law, Policy, and Regulation - LECTURE NOTES
YOU NEED TO OBTAIN A SNDS ACCOUNT AND A SAC account. This is very important. See the Student Computing Services (from this link click on "Account Infomation") website for Information. Read:
- CC: Chapter 6: The Global Village
- Johnson and Post, "The Rise of Law on the Global Network" in Borders in Cyberspace
- Ross, "Hacking Away at the Counterculture" in Electronic Media and Technoculture
Read These Web Resources:
Explore:
- Taming the Wild, Wild Web in Business Week
MAY 15 - Economic aspects and Industry Standards - LECTURE NOTES
Photoshop Lab: TBA
Read These Web Resources:
- CC: Chapter 8: Ownership and Sharing of Knowledge
- U.S. Government Electronic Commerce Policy The Emerging Digital Economy Report
- The Internet Economy in Business Week
- Schwartz and Leyden, The Long Boom: A History of the Future,1980 - 2020 in Wired
Explore:
- Aspen Institute, The Global Advance of Electronic Commerce Part I
- HDTV Primer
- Look over DirecTV, Web TV
MAY 16, 17 and 21 - Social and Cultural Implications - LECTURE NOTES
May 17 - FINAL PROJECT PROPOSAL DUE (1 PAGE)
May 21 - Photoshop Assignment Due (tentative)
Read:
- CC: Chapter 7: Information Overload and New Media
- Kroker and Weinstein, "The Theory of the Virtual Class" in Electronic Media and Technoculture (Will distribute to class)
- Turner, "The Joke's on You" in Shift
- CC: Chapter 5: Electronic Democracy
- Sussman, "Communication, Technology and Politics" in Communication Technology, and Politics in the Information Age
Read These Web Resources:
Explore:
- US Government's Digital Divide site
- Benton Foundation site on the Digital Divide
- The Electronic Frontier: The Challenge Of Unlawful Conduct Involving The Use Of The Internet
MAY 22, 23 and 24 - Community and Identity - LECTURE NOTES
Read:
- CC: Chapter 1: New Windows on the Self
- CC: Chapter 3: Cultural Identity and Cyberspace
- Turkle, "Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality" in Culture of the Internet
- CC: Chapter 4: Virtual Community
- Jones, "Information, Internet and Community" in Cybersociety 2.0
Read These Web Resources:
- Kollock and Smith, Communities in Cyberspace
- Activists without Borders, in Business Week
Explore:
- Net Action's The Virtual Activist
MAY 28 - MEMORIAL DAY: NO CLASS
MAY 29 AND 30 Postmodern Perspectives and Identity Part 2 - LECTURE NOTES
MAY 29 - FINAL PROJECT OUTLINE AND INITIAL REFERENCE LIST DUE
Read:
- CC: Chapter 2: Gender Online
- Nichols, "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems" in Electronic Media and Technoculture
- Hayles, "Toward Embodied Virtuality" in How We Became Posthuman
- McLuhan, "Playboy Interview" in Essential McLuhan
Explore:
MAY 31 - Simulation, Virtual Reality, Agents, and the Future; Course Wrap Up - LECTURE NOTES
Read
- CC: Chapter 9: The Classroom of the Future
- Stone, "Sex, Death, and Machinery, or How I fell in Love with My Prosthesis" in Electronic Media and Technoculture
- Kellner, "Mapping the Present from the Future" in Media Culture
Johnson, "Agents" in Interface Culture- Heim, 'VR 101' in Virtual Realism
Optional web reading:
- Stryker, Sex and Death among the Cyborgs in Wired
- Joy, Why the Future Doesn't Need Us in Wired
Explore:
JUNE 4 - Project Presentations and Final Projects Due at the Beginning of Class:
June 5 - Final Exam