Date |
Topic |
Readings & Online Sites |
1/10 |
Introduction |
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1/12 |
Community: Face to Face and Online |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Sites:
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1/17 |
Third Places |
Reading:
Online Site:
Due:
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1/19 |
Research Methods |
Reading:
Online Site:
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1/24 |
Research Ethics |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
Please do not miss this class. If you do miss this lecture, you
must watch a video of class and meet with the TA. |
1/26 |
No class |
|
1/31 |
Ethics Continued:
Disguising Subjects in Published Accounts |
Reading:
Online site:
Due:
- Obtain ethics certification via the online
course, if you do not already have certification.
Please do not miss this class. If you do miss this lecture, you
must watch a video of class and meet with the TA.
|
2/2 |
Design Factors |
Reading:
Online Site:
Due:
|
2/7 |
Theory of Identity |
Reading:
Online Sites:
- Dooce (Warning: site is known for being irreverent and using strong language.)
- TVNewser
|
2/9 |
Identity Online |
Reading:
Online Site:
- Second Life
Note: it takes a while to 'understand' this site. Please reserve at least 2-3 hours for exploring it.
Due:
|
2/14 (CSCW) |
Gender Online |
Guest Lecture by Jill Dimond
Reading:
Online Site:
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2/16 (CSCW) |
Constructionism |
Guest Lecture by Betsy Disalvo
Reading:
- Papers by Amy Bruckman:
Online Site:
Due:
|
2/21 |
Deviant Behavior |
Reading:
- A
Rape in Cyberspace (or chapter 1 of "My
Tiny Life") by Julian Dibbell
- Approaches
to Managing Deviant Behavior in Virtual Communities,
panel, CHI 94, by Amy Bruckman, Pavel Curtis, Cliff
Figallo, and Brenda Laurel
- Managing
Deviant Behavior in Online Communities., panel,
CHI 2006. Amy Bruckman, Catalina Danis, Cliff Lampe,
Janet Sternberg, and Chris Waldron.
Recommended:
Online Site:
|
2/23 |
Governance |
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Sites:
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2/28 |
The Social, the Technical, the Political |
Reading:
- Do Artifacts Have Politics?
by Langdon Winner. (in The Whale and The Reactor)
- Code v2.0 by Lawrence Lessig. Chapters 3, 6, & 7. (Available free online, but you may wish to buy it anyway.)
Online Site:
Due:
- HW: First interview transcript
|
3/1 |
Social Roles |
Reading:
Online Site:
|
3/6 |
Participation and Lurking |
Reading:
- "Lurker
demographics: counting the silent" by Blair
Nonnecke and Jenny Preece.
Proceedings of CHI 2000, April 1 - 6,
2000, The Hague, Netherlands, pp. 73-80. (ACM DL)
- "Alone together?": exploring the social dynamics
of massively multiplayer online games by Nicolas Ducheneaut
et al. Proceedings of CHI 2006. (ACM DL)
Recommended:
Online Site:
Due:
- HW: Second interview transcript
|
3/8 |
Virtual Architecture |
Reading:
- "Cybrid principles: guidelines for merging phyisical and cyberspaces" by Peter Anders (electronic reserve)
- Read "Liquid Architectures in
Cyberspace" (electronic
reserve). Skim beginning.
Read carefully from page 248 to the end.
Recommended:
- "How did My Garden Grow" (Chapter 5) in "My
Tiny Life" by Julian Dibbell
Online Site:
- SF0
Note: Actually signing up for the site and trying it is optional. If you
do so, pease do not do anything unethical, illegal, or that defaces property.
Use good judgement.
Due:
- HW: Third interview transcript
|
3/13 |
Guest Lecture: Mike Dowdle |
Online site:
|
3/15 |
Guest Lecture: Chris Waldron |
Online sites:
Due:
|
3/20 & 3/22 |
Spring Break (no class) |
|
3/27 |
Community Study Presentations |
|
3/29 |
Community Study Presentations, continued |
|
4/3 |
Intellectual Property and Online Remix |
Guest Lecture by Casey Fiesler
Reading:
Online Site:
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4/5 |
Leadership and Hosting |
Guest Lecture by Kurt Luther
Reading:
Recommended:
Online Site:
|
4/10 |
Children & Controversial Information Online |
Reading:
Online Sites:
|
4/12 |
Online Privacy |
Reading:
Recommended:
- "Privacy policies as decision-making tools, an evaluation
of online privacy notices." by Carlos Jensen and Colin Potts.
Proceedings of CHI 2004. (ACM DL)
Online Site:
- Electronic Frontier
Foundation (EFF) on Privacy (browse)
- Read the privacy policies of two online sites you use. List
your sites on the wiki, making sure no one else in the class
has picked your sites. Come to class prepared to discuss those
policies.
|
4/17 |
Online Cooperation and the Open Source Movement |
Reading:
Online Site:
|
4/19 |
Wikipedia and the nature of "truth" |
Reading:
Online Sites:
Due:
|
4/24 |
No class |
|
4/26 |
Design Presentations |
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