Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Jay Rosen, blog is first amendment machine
Jay Rosen A Blog is a Little First Amendment Machine", Huffington Post, June 2007 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jay-rosen/a-blog-is-a-little-first-_b_50164.html
The Guardian, articles on wikipedia
"can you trust wikipedia", The Guardian october 24, 2005: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/opinion/story/0,,1599325,00.html
"A thirst for knowledge", the Guardian, April 13, 2006 http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1752257,00.html
"A thirst for knowledge", the Guardian, April 13, 2006 http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1752257,00.html
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Reading: Tags
Folksonomy: Social Classification by Gene Smith, in Atomiq (2004)
http://atomiq.org/archives/2004/08/folksonomy_social_classification.html
folksonomy coinage and definition, by Thomas Vandewal
http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
http://atomiq.org/archives/2004/08/folksonomy_social_classification.html
folksonomy coinage and definition, by Thomas Vandewal
http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Reading: The Visible Man
Hasan Elahi documents his life publically, article in Wired magazine.
keywords: privacy, surveillance, sousveillance
The Visible Man
link to project site (Tracking transience dot net)
keywords: privacy, surveillance, sousveillance
The Visible Man
link to project site (Tracking transience dot net)
Readings: OsCar Open Source Car
Studio Lab: Activity: Make a Tag Cloud
Live demo of how tagging works, what a tag cloud is.
Use tagcloud . Choose a passage from one of the articles or readings and generate a tag cloud to show them.
Give them a critical or conceptual issue or an article and get them to generate a tag cloud. Reflect and analyze.
Use tagcloud . Choose a passage from one of the articles or readings and generate a tag cloud to show them.
Give them a critical or conceptual issue or an article and get them to generate a tag cloud. Reflect and analyze.
Studio Lab: Activity: Tag and Analyze
Divide the group into four teams. Give each a different colour of sticky paper. Set up the room with a series of images on the screen, as well as all the other things in the room (chairs, computers, etc.) Get them to spend 40 minutes tagging everything in the room. At the end, the room should be covered with different colours of tags.
Then, each team must go around and record the tags from the existing environment and compile the information into a document. (40 mins) The document should list all the tags from all the teams and group the same tags together. For example, chair (7), floor (2), window (4). The document must also list the tags from each group. For example, yellow team: chair (2). orange team: chair(1).
Each team must reflect on these results and come up with a set of five observations about the data and knowledge that was generated in the course of this exercise. Areas to focus on: what is the relationship between the team/individual who tags and the tags that are produced? Do different teams tag differently, and how? (provide examples.) Are there similarities in how all the teams tagged the environment? Were there any tags that jump out as being distinctive, and if so, what does that tell you about the environment, team, person, object, or vocabulary? What is the role of vocabulary in this exercise?
Then, each team must go around and record the tags from the existing environment and compile the information into a document. (40 mins) The document should list all the tags from all the teams and group the same tags together. For example, chair (7), floor (2), window (4). The document must also list the tags from each group. For example, yellow team: chair (2). orange team: chair(1).
Each team must reflect on these results and come up with a set of five observations about the data and knowledge that was generated in the course of this exercise. Areas to focus on: what is the relationship between the team/individual who tags and the tags that are produced? Do different teams tag differently, and how? (provide examples.) Are there similarities in how all the teams tagged the environment? Were there any tags that jump out as being distinctive, and if so, what does that tell you about the environment, team, person, object, or vocabulary? What is the role of vocabulary in this exercise?
Reading: Steven Johnson, Emergence
# Steven Johnson, Emergence: the connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software (2002) Scribner, ISBN 0-684-86876-8
Reading: The Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds: James Surowiecki
Surowiecki, James (2004). The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-86173-1
Surowiecki, James (2004). The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations Little, Brown ISBN 0-316-86173-1
Blog Assignment: "Wikis and Crowdpower"
Read these articles and write a 250 word post on your blog.
* "What is a Wiki?" from BlogsandWikis, Bemijdi State University http://199.17.178.148/%7Emorgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WhatIsAWiki
* "Common Knowledge," The Guardian, January 2003. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884666,00.html
* "Business is Toying with a Web Tool," Amy Cortese, New York Times, May 19, 2003. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=990CE3D9123EF93AA25756C0A9659C8B63
* "Wiki Epiphany," Jonathon Delacour, blog entry, July 18, 2004. http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2004/07/wiki_epiphany.php
* "Wide Open Spaces" by Brian Lamb, from the Educause Review September/October 2004. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp?bhcp=1
* "Weblogs, Wikis, and Comments" from Hunting the Muse. June 22, 2004. http://www.museworld.com/archives/001433.html
* "What is a Wiki?" from BlogsandWikis, Bemijdi State University http://199.17.178.148/%7Emorgan/cgi-bin/blogsAndWiki.pl?WhatIsAWiki
* "Common Knowledge," The Guardian, January 2003. http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,884666,00.html
* "Business is Toying with a Web Tool," Amy Cortese, New York Times, May 19, 2003. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=technology&res=990CE3D9123EF93AA25756C0A9659C8B63
* "Wiki Epiphany," Jonathon Delacour, blog entry, July 18, 2004. http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/2004/07/wiki_epiphany.php
* "Wide Open Spaces" by Brian Lamb, from the Educause Review September/October 2004. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp?bhcp=1
* "Weblogs, Wikis, and Comments" from Hunting the Muse. June 22, 2004. http://www.museworld.com/archives/001433.html
Studio Lab: Activity: Write What You Know
Decide on a subject that interests you or that you know a lot about. (Marshall McLuhan, Bjork, Hello Kitty, Xbox, rammed earth dwellings).
Look at the entry for it on wikipedia. Edit this entry to add to the knowledge that is reflected there, improve on the entry, or correct facts that are presented there.
Take a screen grab of the entry prior to you making your changes. Take another screen grab afterwards. Use photoshop or some other method to highlight your addition in the latter. Hand in both as .jpgs.
Look at the entry for it on wikipedia. Edit this entry to add to the knowledge that is reflected there, improve on the entry, or correct facts that are presented there.
Take a screen grab of the entry prior to you making your changes. Take another screen grab afterwards. Use photoshop or some other method to highlight your addition in the latter. Hand in both as .jpgs.
Studio Lab: Activity: Collective Essay
The assignment this week has two parts.
1. As a group, produce a written research project that takes the form of a wiki.
2. As an individual, reflect on the process.
So, as a first step, as a collective group you will spend the class today producing a written research project that takes the form of a wiki.
Your research topic is: something critically or conceptually engaged with the ideas this week or with overall concepts or reflection on technology: - having to do with the architecture of participation. Link to the directed reading.
For the assignment, you must collectively decide on, plan, write, polish and edit a collective essay.
Everyone in the class gets the same mark. (10%)
Then, in fulfillment of the second part of the assignment, reflect on what your experience. Questions to consider: what are the limitations of this form? Did it work (Why, why not.) How does this written research project differ in form and content from one you would have written by yourself. Give examples. 300 words. (5%)
1. As a group, produce a written research project that takes the form of a wiki.
2. As an individual, reflect on the process.
So, as a first step, as a collective group you will spend the class today producing a written research project that takes the form of a wiki.
Your research topic is: something critically or conceptually engaged with the ideas this week or with overall concepts or reflection on technology: - having to do with the architecture of participation. Link to the directed reading.
For the assignment, you must collectively decide on, plan, write, polish and edit a collective essay.
Everyone in the class gets the same mark. (10%)
Then, in fulfillment of the second part of the assignment, reflect on what your experience. Questions to consider: what are the limitations of this form? Did it work (Why, why not.) How does this written research project differ in form and content from one you would have written by yourself. Give examples. 300 words. (5%)
Studio Lab: Activity: 10 Things that Don't Fit in Facebook
Describe things people “normally do” with these sites (friend, add as contact, add as friend or family, block, etc.) Create an activity in which they must produce a list of 10 relationships that do not fit into this model.
Studio Lab: Activity: World Meets Myspace
What is an example of a real world relationship that was changed or affected by your experience on a social networking site like Myspace or Facebook. Write 200 words.
Studio Lab: Activity: Facebook Profile
Build a facebook profile for some historical figure, complete with friends, photographs, interests, and a comment history.
Create the artifacts for your profile using Photoshop and screengrabs of the Facebook template.
Hand in your assignment as an image or html page, but do not post it on facebook.
Choose one of the following people:
Marshall McLuhan
Samuel Finlay Breese Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
Arthur C. Clarke
Guglielmo Marconi
Nikola Tesla
Yochai Benkler
Laurence Lessig
Create the artifacts for your profile using Photoshop and screengrabs of the Facebook template.
Hand in your assignment as an image or html page, but do not post it on facebook.
Choose one of the following people:
Marshall McLuhan
Samuel Finlay Breese Morse
Alexander Graham Bell
Arthur C. Clarke
Guglielmo Marconi
Nikola Tesla
Yochai Benkler
Laurence Lessig
Reading: Social Network Sites: public, private or what?
"Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?" danah boyd. Knowledge Tree 13, May 2007. http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/?page_id=28
Blog Assignment: "Online Communities"
Online Communities:
Two steps. 1. Read these articles. 2. Then, respond by writing a 250 word blog entry.
Your blog entry should quote directly from the articles or summarize the arguments that are presented in the articles as you explore and make your point. If there is another article you would like to respond to instead, go for it.
* "Rock the Vote Goes IM", Wired News, August 16, 2004.
* Small World (2004) http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld/
* "AIMless Addicts," Stanford Daily, February 25, 2003 http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2003/2/25/aimlessAddictions
* "Internet Dating Empowers Women." BBC News, November 25, 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2486815.stm
* "Obsessive Internet Use..." CNN.com, June 13, 2000. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/06/13/internet.addiction.wmd/
Two steps. 1. Read these articles. 2. Then, respond by writing a 250 word blog entry.
Your blog entry should quote directly from the articles or summarize the arguments that are presented in the articles as you explore and make your point. If there is another article you would like to respond to instead, go for it.
* "Rock the Vote Goes IM", Wired News, August 16, 2004.
* Small World (2004) http://www.zefrank.com/smallworld/
* "AIMless Addicts," Stanford Daily, February 25, 2003 http://www.stanforddaily.com/article/2003/2/25/aimlessAddictions
* "Internet Dating Empowers Women." BBC News, November 25, 2002 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2486815.stm
* "Obsessive Internet Use..." CNN.com, June 13, 2000. http://archives.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/06/13/internet.addiction.wmd/
A Bloggers Blog, by Danah Boyd
"A bloggers blog" by Danah Boyd: http://reconstruction.eserver.org/064/boyd.shtml
Reading: The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler
Yochai Benkler: The Wealth of Networks
link
online as html
To bring into lecture: Chapter 4: "The Emergence of Social Production in the Digitally Networked Environment"
link
online as html
To bring into lecture: Chapter 4: "The Emergence of Social Production in the Digitally Networked Environment"
Blog Assignment: "On Blogging"
Gosh, how meta. A Blog assignment that is ABOUT BLOGGING.
Two steps. 1. Read these articles. 2. Then, respond by writing a 250 word blog entry.
Your blog entry should quote directly from the articles or summarize the arguments that are presented in the articles as you explore and make your point. If there is another article you would like to respond to instead, go for it.
* "Blog Interrupted" from the WashingtonPost.com, August 10, 2004. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html
* "Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld" from Columbia Journalism Review, May 2003.http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2003/5/blog-welch.asp
* "Educational Blogging" from Educause Review, Sept/Oct 2004. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp?bhcp=1
* "Blogging as a Form of Journalism" from USC Online Journalism Review, September 26, 2004. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017958873.php
* "Psychology of Weblogs: 2002" from Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central, May 23, 2002. http://psychcentral.com/blogs/blog2002.htm
* "What We're Doing When We Blog", from the OReilly Webdev Center, June 2002 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html and Dr. John Grohol's reply "Psychology of Weblogs: Everything Old is New Again," from Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central, June 2002. http://psychcentral.com/blogs/blog_new.htm
* "Blah Blah Blah and Blog" from Wired News, Feb 18 2002. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/02/50443
Two steps. 1. Read these articles. 2. Then, respond by writing a 250 word blog entry.
Your blog entry should quote directly from the articles or summarize the arguments that are presented in the articles as you explore and make your point. If there is another article you would like to respond to instead, go for it.
* "Blog Interrupted" from the WashingtonPost.com, August 10, 2004. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54736-2004Aug10.html
* "Emerging Alternatives: Blogworld" from Columbia Journalism Review, May 2003.http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2003/5/blog-welch.asp
* "Educational Blogging" from Educause Review, Sept/Oct 2004. http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0450.asp?bhcp=1
* "Blogging as a Form of Journalism" from USC Online Journalism Review, September 26, 2004. http://www.ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1017958873.php
* "Psychology of Weblogs: 2002" from Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central, May 23, 2002. http://psychcentral.com/blogs/blog2002.htm
* "What We're Doing When We Blog", from the OReilly Webdev Center, June 2002 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/13/megnut.html and Dr. John Grohol's reply "Psychology of Weblogs: Everything Old is New Again," from Dr. John Grohol's Psych Central, June 2002. http://psychcentral.com/blogs/blog_new.htm
* "Blah Blah Blah and Blog" from Wired News, Feb 18 2002. http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2002/02/50443
Marking Scheme
Marking:
Blog Assignments: 5 throughout the term. 250 words each. Posted to an individual blog. On various subjects & around certain themes ie in response to a collection of readings. (5 x 5% each = 25%)
In addition to these assignments, there are in class activities in the studio labs that have weekly deliverables of various kinds.
Activities (25%)
In addition to this, there is one big assignment due at the end of term. (40%)
Participation: 10%
total: 100
Blog Assignments: 5 throughout the term. 250 words each. Posted to an individual blog. On various subjects & around certain themes ie in response to a collection of readings. (5 x 5% each = 25%)
In addition to these assignments, there are in class activities in the studio labs that have weekly deliverables of various kinds.
Activities (25%)
In addition to this, there is one big assignment due at the end of term. (40%)
Participation: 10%
total: 100
Blog Assignments
Blog Assignments:
In this class you are required to make a blog and post a certain number of assignments on it throughout the term.
There will be 5 Blog assignments throughout the term, of approximately 250 words each. These must be posted to your individual blog. Each posting will be on a certain subject, theme, or in response to a collection of readings. They are worth 5% each (total 25% over the term)
What is a blog?
Wikipedia defines a weblog-- or blog -- as "a web application which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage." We are using it as a space for you to reflect and record research and thoughts about the subjects we are covering in class. It is a way for you to use writing to explore issues related to digital culture, to sharpen your analytic skills, to participate in a conversation about the impact of technology on our lives.
Yes, but what the hell is a weblog? Here is another perspective.
In this class you are required to make a blog and post a certain number of assignments on it throughout the term.
There will be 5 Blog assignments throughout the term, of approximately 250 words each. These must be posted to your individual blog. Each posting will be on a certain subject, theme, or in response to a collection of readings. They are worth 5% each (total 25% over the term)
What is a blog?
Wikipedia defines a weblog-- or blog -- as "a web application which contains periodic, reverse chronologically ordered posts on a common webpage." We are using it as a space for you to reflect and record research and thoughts about the subjects we are covering in class. It is a way for you to use writing to explore issues related to digital culture, to sharpen your analytic skills, to participate in a conversation about the impact of technology on our lives.
Yes, but what the hell is a weblog? Here is another perspective.
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