Remember: Theories, terms and concepts are ideas that we use to make sense of the world around us, to understand and predict how the world works, and to help us decide how we can and should act in the world. They are socially constructed but they often have a real effect on how we perceive [...]
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Cyberspace
Posted in Assignments, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 29 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
Reminder: Class is coming to a close
Posted in Assignments, Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 27 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We are fast approaching the end of the fifth week of class. This coming weekend is the last before individual weblogs and final project weblogs are due, and also the last before the final exam, which comes on Friday 6 July.
Use the remaining time wisely. Be sure you are up to date with the individual [...]
Class for Wednesday 27 June and Weblog Assignment
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 26 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In class Wednesday we will discuss the experience of working with the wikis and, if time allows, move on to discuss crowdsourcing. Feel free to play with the wikis in the meantime. For your second individual weblog entry this week (due Thursday 28 June) please write a brief reflection on the experience you had with [...]
Wikipedia Project, Part Two
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 26 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By now you have posted an entry at your personal weblog presenting evidence to support your position on whether Wikipedia is a reliable resource. Your instructions were to do this collaboratively, discussing with others in class while you worked. But your entry on the topic is ultimately individual.
The next step in this process is to [...]
Wikipedia Project
Posted in Assignments, Weblogs on 25 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today we will work on a collaborative research project. Here is the assignment:
Wikipedia presents itself as an online encyclopedia–a factual resource which we expect will provide us with reliable information. Using all the resources available to you, spend this class period looking for evidence that will help you take a position on the question, “Is [...]
Class for Friday 22 June
Posted in Class Activities, Projects, Weblogs on 22 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I said that today we would continue our examination of Wikipedia and open source/collaborative production, but we will do that instead on Monday in order for people to have time to review material linked at yesterday’s entry.
Instead today we will have a work/consultation day. I recommend that you use the class time today to [...]
Open Source and Collaborative Production
Posted in Assignments, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 21 June 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Open Source” and “Collaborative Production” are important concepts for understanding new information technologies and their relation to social networks. For our purposes, we can understand these as closely related terms describing social arrangements through which groups of people work together in order to create something.
The term open source is often used to refer to a [...]
In-Class Activity: Participatory Journalism and Web Communities
Posted in Class Activities, Terms and Concepts, Weblogs on 14 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
(Note: If you were absent for this class, you will need to do a similar exercise on your own for another news site. Please speak to me about it.)
In class today we will begin an activity in which we examine news oriented websites in order to learn about their communities. This is a group exercise. [...]
A few thoughts on community
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 13 June 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of the things Akina says she gets out of community is the opportunity to interact with different people. As part of the KIMEP Times community, she gets to interview interesting people. Certainly this is a feature of a journalistic community (after all, a big part of a reporter’s job is to find out new [...]
Discussing Community Within a Community
Posted in Class Activities, Weblogs on 13 June 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Today in class we will continue our discussion of community. Begin by visiting some other students’ sites and seeing what they have written about community. Then, at your own site, post an entry considering what you have learned reading their entries. (Be sure to post a link to the entries you discuss.) Some things you [...]
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