Date
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Subject
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Reading
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Homework
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| W 1/23 |
Introductions |
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UNIT ONE:
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DIVIDED PLACES
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| M 1/28 |
The Question Concerning Technology |
McLuhan – The Medium is the Massage |
Fill Out Tech Survey |
| W 1/30 |
Politechs & Rhetoric |
Winner; Latour |
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| M 2/4 |
Techno-Dispositions |
McChesney – Digital Disconnect, Ch. 1; Stein |
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| W 2/6 |
Division Definitions: ATX & USA |
Straubhaar et al. – Inequity in the Technopolis, Chs. 3, 4, & 5 |
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| M 2/11 |
Seeing the Divide Elsewhere |
Holmes et al.; Wohlsen; Anderson; Rogers |
RS1 Due |
| W 2/13 |
Burying Lies about Libraries |
Neuman; Mourdoukoutas; McKay; Ha |
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| M 2/18 |
Telolearning & Self-Edits: Webinar! |
Whyman; Lohr |
RS2 Due |
| W 2/20 |
When the Digital Divides |
Eubanks – Automating Inequality, Ch. 5; “Hippocratic Oath” |
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| M 2/25 |
In-Class Peer Review |
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Bring Paper 1 Hardcopy to Class |
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UNIT TWO:
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DIVIDED PEOPLE
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|
| W 2/27 |
Revising the Divide: Disparities Without Echoed Within |
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Paper 1 Due |
| M 3/4 |
Coding Division |
Wachter-Boettcher – Technically Wrong, Chs. 1 & 2 |
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| W 3/6 |
Workers of the World [Wide Web] Unite |
Henwood; Schapiro |
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| M 3/11 |
Causes & Kairos |
Gladwell; Mirani; Schiappa |
RS3 Due |
| W 3/13 |
Bleak Morrow & Constructing Identities |
boyd – It’s Complicated, Ch. 1; Corder |
Twitter @ssignment |
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SPRING
|
BREAK
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|
| M 3/25 |
Natives & Immigrants/Bart & Homer |
Prensky; Helsper & Enyon |
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| W 3/27 |
Gender & Performance |
Penny – Cybersexim |
RS4 |
| M 4/1 |
Race & Rhetoric |
boyd – It’s Complicated, Ch. 6; Timberg & Harwell |
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| W 4/3 |
P2P Review |
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Paper 2 Due |
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UNIT THREE:
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DIVIDED PARTICIPATION
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|
| M 4/8 |
A New Vision of Division: Those Within Without Control |
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Paper 2 Revisions Due |
| W 4/10 |
Toil & Trouble |
Pariser – Filter Bubble, intro; Broderick & Darmanin |
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| M 4/15 |
@dvertisements |
Goel; Lapowsky; Manjoo |
RS5 Due |
| W 4/17 |
#FakeNews! Sad! |
Tufekci; Read; Meyer |
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| M 4/22 |
Testing Intelligence |
Metz; Turing |
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| W 4/24 |
Net Neutrality & Pirate Nets |
Sohn; Song |
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| M 4/29 |
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? |
Healy; Deleuze |
Paper 3 Twitter Thread Due |
| W 5/1 |
Alternative 2 Control? Delete |
Koebler; Malmgren; Fong; Day |
Twitter Peer Review Due |
| M 5/6 |
Course Evaluations & Žižek on the Commons |
Žižek – In Defense of Lost Causes, Ch. 9, pt. 1 |
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| W 5/8 |
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Paper 3 Blog Amplification |
Arguing The Digital Divide 