NCLC 249 (01) Digital Literacy Spring, 2012 Wednesdays: 1:30 - 4:10 p.m. Innovation Hall, Room 336 New Century College George Mason University Instructor: Kristin Scott Office Hours: By Appointment E-Mail: Class Blog: http://nclc249.wordpress.com See Course Description GROUP PROJECTS Weekly Schedule The weekly schedule functions as your day-by-day guide to this learning community. It itemizes your assignments and their due dates and your weekly preparatory work for class meetings. The online version includes links to online readings. January 25th: Introduction to course and digital literacy February 1st: Digital Literacy & the Information R/evolution Assigned readings: February 8th: Internet Literacy & the Information R/evolution continued . . . Assigned readings: - Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The Atlantic, July/August, 2008.
- Bowman, James. “Is Stupid Making Us Google?” The New Atlantis, Number 21, Summer 2008.
- Sherry Turkle, “Can You Hear Me Now?” Forbes (May 5, 2007)
- Watch: A Vision of Students Today & Information R/evolution
- Yoffe, Emily. “Seeking: How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And Why that’s dangerous.” Slate, August 12, 2009.
February 15th: Web 2.0 & Digital Literacy – Debates on Reading Assigned readings: - O’Reilly, Tim. “What is Web 2.0?”
- Watch: Web 2.0 & Web 2.0 … The Machine is Watching Us
- NEA: “To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence”
- Mitoko Rich, "Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading?" New York Times Book Review, July 27 2008.
- Levy, Steven. “The Future of Reading,” Newsweek, Nov. 17, 2007 (on dropbox).
- Weisberg, Jacob. “Curling Up with A Good Screen,” Newsweek, Mar 21, 2009.
February 22nd: “Collective Intelligence” and “Convergence” Assigned readings: - Chocano, Carina. (2012). "The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg," The New York Times. January 27.
- Mosco, Vincent. “Brand New World? Globalization, Cyberspace, and the Politics of Convergence (Key Note Address) (on dropbox).
- Langlois, Ganaele and Greg Elmer, “Wikipedia leeches? The promotion of traffic through a collaborative web format” (on dropbox).
- Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Medias Collide, Introduction (on dropbox).
February 29th: Social Networking and Virtual Communities Assigned readings: March 7th: Open-Source / P2P File Sharing Assigned readings: March 14th: SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS March 21st: Digital Revolutions & Smart Mobs Assigned readings: - Morozov, Evgeny, “Think Again Twitter,” Foreign Policy, August 6, 2009.
- Harris, Leslie. “Online Activism Isn’t Dead,” Center For Democracy & Technology, July 2, 2009.
- Nicholson, Judith A. “Flash! Mobs in the Age of Mobile Connectivity,” Fibreculture Journal, Issue 6.
- Stöcker, Christian, Carolin Neumann, and Thorsten Dörting, “Ahmadinejad’s Fear of the Internet,” Spiegel Online International, June 18, 2009.
- Browse through the DigiActive: A World of Digital Activists web site.
- “Twitter’s Role in the Iranian Revolution” June 16, 2009
- Morozov, Evgeny. “Iran Elections: A Twitter Revolution?” June 17, 2009
- “WikiLeaks” & “Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks”
March 28th: Fandom / Digital Mashing Guest lecturer: Sara Marie Massee, Cultural Studies, GMU, on fandom and digital mashing. Assigned readings: - Russo: "User-Penetrated Content: Fan Video in the Age of Convergence" (on dropbox).
- Coppa: "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness" (on dropbox).
- De Kosnik: "Should Fan Fiction Be Free?" (on dropbox).
- Jenkins: "How to Watch A Fan Vid"
April 4th: Workshop Class - to work on Peer Teaching and Experiential Learning Projects April 11th: Peer Teaching April 18th: Peer Teaching April 25th: Peer Teaching May 2nd: Experiential Learning Projects due; Groups will present their projects to the class May 6th: FINAL REFLECTION PAPERS DUE by NOON via email! |
