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Thurs. Apr. 27 |
Final Class |
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Tues. Apr. 25 |
Research
Papers due |
Tues. Apr. 20
&
Thurs.. Apr. 22 |
Lab Days to
work on research papers. Due date has been rescheduled to
Tuesday, April 25. Please check message to listserve for other
details. |
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Thurs. Apr. 13 |
Look over links
in Section XIII, The Internet and Inequality. Be familiar with
the concept of the digital divide. Due
to a talk I'm giving at a high school, I will be late for class.
Continue working on your research papers. |
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Tues. Apr. 11 |
Read articles
in Section XII, Education and the Internet. Lab Session. |
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Thurs. Apr. 6 |
Lab Day.
Work on research project or finish your webpage. |
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Tues. Apr. 4 |
Read articles
in Section XI, The Internet as Marketplace. Lab time for your
webpage, due Thursday at the latest. Don't forget to post a
message to the WebCT Bulletin Board when it is ready. |
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Thurs. Mar. 30 |
Lab Session:
work on web page and research project |
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Tues. March 28 |
Read articles
in Section X, Politics and the Web. Come prepared to discuss
them. |
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Thurs. Mar. 23 |
Work on web
page and research projects |
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Tues. March 21 |
Bring a 3 1/2
inch diskette to this class and all future ones. We will begin
working on webpages (Exercise 6). It's possible I may be late
because of a department meeting--work on either your research paper or
get started on making a webpage.
Note: Exercises 1-4 and your Research
Topic/Census should be in by now. Submissions after this date
will involve a penalty. |
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Semester Break |
This is a good
time to get seriously going on your research project! |
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Thurs. March 9 |
We will discuss
the issues raised in Section VIII on censorship issues: free speech,
pornography, hate speech, dissent. Explore the Public Agenda
site; read the assigned pieces from the Corporate Watch site; and
browse (seriously) the browsing site. If you get a chance,
listen to one or both of the Radio Times audio links. |
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Tues. March 7 |
Please browse
(in a serious fashion) the various websites listed in Section
VII. Come prepared to identify and discuss the various privacy
issues you learned about from these websites. By this date you
should have sent your paper topic/census to me and also have completed
Exercise 3 and 4. |
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Thurs. March 2
No Class! |
No class
today. Use the time to complete Exercises 3 and 4 if you have
not already completed them. Otherwise work on your research for
your paper. |
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Tues. Feb. 29
Topic due |
Paper topic
assignment due (see Research Paper assignment for details).
Please browse through the links in Sections IV on the syllabus.
I will go over the assignment for Exercise 4. |
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Thurs. Feb. 24 |
Come to class
with an idea about your research topic. We will work on Exercise
3 during class. If you don't finish it during class, try to
complete it by Tuesday. |
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Tues. Feb. 22 |
Read and come
prepared to discuss two articles about research about the effects of
internet use that claim to find increases in depression and social
isolation: Stanford
Study and Carnegie
Mellon Study. See also the useful commentary by Amitai
Etzioni. Also be thinking about your research
topic. We will learn how to make screen shots in class (a
potentially-useful technique for your research papers).
Postscript: we discussed the new study Nothing
But Net: American Workers and the Information Economy (pdf format)
and saw the related Powerpoint summary, which may be downloaded. |
Thurs. Feb. 17
BSB 134 |
Meet in BSB 134 for a second film
on the history of the internet, Part 3 of Nerds 2.01: A Brief History of the Internet |
| Tues. Feb. 15 |
Exercise 2 in class or by the end
of the day. Be sure to attend class for the discussion of the Internet and Social
Change Research Paper assignment (not due until April, but it's time to start thinking
about it). |
Thurs. Feb. 10
BSB 134 |
Meet in BSB 134 for a film on the
internet. I will be away, but Debra Burock will show the film and take attendance. |
Tues. Feb. 8
Bulletin Board
session! |
WebCT Bulletin Board Session.
Please complete the rest of the virtual community readings in Section III of the
syllabus, and also explore the browsing sites. I will post questions on the
Bulletin Board for you to respond to. You can also post questions of your own.
Instructions: Access the bulletin board and read through the questions.
Answer at least two questions and reply to (or comment on) at least two responses
by your classmates (including questions they pose). Posing a question of your
own can take the place of one of the responses to classmates. In total, you should
post a minimum of four messages (more are encouraged). |
Thurs.
Feb. 3
chat session! |
WebCT Chat Session: we will meet in the chat
room to discuss the following three Section III readings: Dibbell, Barlow, and Turkle.
Come prepared to discuss them online. Note: Click here to access the chat session log. |
| Tues.
Feb. 1 |
Begin Section III readings: Rheingold's
"Slice of Life" and Kollock & Smith's "Communities in Cyberspace."
We will go over Exercise due, and the skills necessary to complete it; it will be
due on Tuesday Feb. 15. All tasks and assignments
up to this date must be completed by the end of the day; otherwise you should drop the
course!! |
Thurs. Jan. 27
Meet in BSB 134 |
Come prepared to discuss the readings in section
II on the syllabus. Also take a look at the browsing sites. (Video originally
scheduled for this class postponed.) Try to have completed all of last week's tasks
plus Exercise 1. |
Tues. Jan. 25 |
Snow day!
Class cancelled. |
Tues. Jan. 18
and
Thurs. Jan. 20 |
Welcome! By the
beginning of next week, you should have completed the following tasks:
1) created your computer
account on clam, if necessary; Note: there is a new system of account
creation described at: http://rucs.rutgers.edu/services/account/index.html
2) checked the configuration of your user
profile for Netscape on the Rutgers network so as to access your email and maintain
your own bookmark file;
3) subscribed to the class listserv and posted
a message to the class introducing yourself as described in the Electronic Communication
Requirement (however, do not post your message before Friday, in order to wait until
others have subscribed);
4) created a username and
password to access the WebCT sections of the course website;
5) posted a response to the WebCT
bulletin board query about how the internet has affected your life so far;
6) completed the online questionnaire about
computer use and submitted it electronically.
7) registered at the New York Times and
bookmarked its Technology page. (You are expected to check this page periodically for
relevant articles.)
8) familiarized yourself with this course's website and with how to move around within it. |
