Com 12 - Calendar

COMM 12 CALENDAR, WINTER 2009

How to Prepare for Class
Please do the readings for each class under which they are listed, before class. Read the questions posted for each class (by clicking on the title of the class) before you do the readings. This will help you focus on the authors' main ideas, increasing your comprehension and saving you time. Please bring readings that are not online to class with you on the days we will discuss them. Whether you print out the online readings or read them on your computer screen is up to you. To save resources, if you print a reading, try to do so in the smallest type and lowest printing quality that you can read.

Readings (to purchase at SCU Book Store or on Library Reserve)
Bucy = Bucy, E.P. Living in the information age: A new media reader, 2d ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
CP = Course Packet
Other readings linked directly to this page are online (just follow the links).

	Theorizing Technology
Week 1
1/5	Searching the Web WORKSHOP: How to Search the Web

1/7	Evaluating Web Sites READ BEFORE CLASS: How to Evaluate Web Sites DUE: Web Search/Evaluation Project (will be completed in class)
Week 2
1/12	Utopian and Dystopian Views of Technology READ BEFORE CLASS: Rushkoff (21-32) and Stoll (188-192) in Bucy Garrard, "Panopticon: Government and Privacy in the New Millenium" Please bring the readings to class today and every day in this course

1/14	Utopian and Dystopian Views of Technology 2 READ BEFORE CLASS: Shenk (157-161) and Gleick (146-150) in Bucy Melber, "About Facebook" WORKSHOP: Blogging DUE: First blog entry by 1/19 at 11:59 PM
Week 3
1/19	MLK Day - No Class

1/21	Media Biases READ BEFORE CLASS: "User Guide"; "Probe" (all 4 parts); and "The World Brain" (from the Explorations section), on CIOS/McLuhan Website Symes, "Marshall McLuhan's 'Global Village'" DUE: Second blog entry by 1/23 at 11:59 PM
Week 4
1/26	Technological Determinism and Neutrality READ BEFORE CLASS: Chandler, "Technological or Media Determinism" (read all sections)

1/28	Technological Determinism II and Presentation Graphics/Diffusion Theory READ BEFORE CLASS: Fidler (33-41) in Bucy Parker (205-211) in Bucy Lubar, "Questions to Ask About Technology" WORKSHOP: How To Use Powerpoint/Presentation Skills Examples: Bad Presentation and Good Presentation
1/28	Extra Credit: Protecting Personal Identities Online Noon-1 pm, Williman Room, Benson Center
Week 5
2/2	Midterm Exam Note: the date and time of this exam cannot be changed. No make-up exams without evidence of serious illness or personal emergency.

	History and Impact of Technology

2/4	Orality, Writing, Print READ BEFORE CLASS: Ong, "Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media," from Communication in History, 60-67 (CP)

Week 6
2/9	Workshop: Wikis READ BEFORE CLASS: Start reading for next two classes PRESENTATION: Wikipedia/Democratization and Reliability of Knowledge

2/11	Radio & Television READ BEFORE CLASS: Douglas, Inventing American Broadcasting, xv-xxix, 292-322 (CP) Putnam, Bowling Alone, pp. 216-246 (CP) PRESENTATION: Radio Broadcasting/Low power FM DUE: Third blog entry by 2/13 at 11:59 PM
Week 7
2/16	Presidents' Day - No Class

2/18	Internet READ BEFORE CLASS: McIntosh & Harwood, "The Internet and America's Changing Sense of Community" Haase & Wellman, "How Does the Internet Affect Social Capital?" PRESENTATION: Television V-chip/Parental Control of TV Viewing and Censorship DUE: Wikipedia Plans - email Raphael with your plans for your Wikipedia entry by 2/20 at 11:59 PM
Week 8
2/23	Community READ BEFORE CLASS: Sunstein (245-254) in Bucy Shapiro, "The Net That Binds" PRESENTATION: PC Hardware/Impact on Environment

2/25	Access READ BEFORE CLASS: Warschauer, "Reconceptualizing the Digital Divide" (be patient as this page loads slowly; if it doesn't, try this link) PRESENTATION: Broadband/National Broadband Policy? PRESENTATION: Regulating Broadband Internet Traffic/Net Neutrality
Week 9
3/2	Virtual Class - Privacy No face-to-face meeting - post a response on this blog by 11:59 pm today READ BEFORE CLASS: Marx, "Privacy and Technology"

3/4	Privacy 2 READ BEFORE CLASS: Privacy International, "Overview of Privacy" WORKSHOP: Refresher on posting to Wikipedia PRESENTATION: P3P/Voluntary and technical solutions to privacy PRESENTATION: Government Surveillance/USA Patriot Act DUE: Wikipedia Entry Project, by 11:59 PM on 3/6 (email me a direct URL to your work and the screen names you used to post your contributions)
Week 10
3/9	Democracy READ BEFORE CLASS: Bennett, "Changing Citizenship in the Digital Age" Levine, "Can the Internet Rescue Democracy? Toward an Online Commons" Buie, "Obama Campaign Builds Unprecedented Grassroots Internet-Based Movement" PRESENTATION: Electronic Voting Systems/Fraud and Errors PRESENTATION: Campaigning and e-government 2.0/Political Participation, Government Transparency and Accountability

3/11	Future of the Internet/ Intellectual Property READ BEFORE CLASS: Lessig, "In Defense of Piracy" Lessig, "Innovating Copyright" PRESENTATION: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing/Copyright PRESENTATION: Digital Rights Management Technology/Digital Millenium Copyright Act

Exam Week

3/16	Final Exam, 9:45-12:10, Bannan 210 (Note the starting time) Note: Final exam dates and times are assigned by the university and cannot be changed. Please make your travel plans accordingly. No make-up exams without evidence of serious illness or personal emergency.

COMM 12 CALENDAR, WINTER 2009

Theorizing Technology

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