Please note: This is NOT our course calendar or an exhaustive list of required readings—it’s just a convenient set of links to our online materials. Please let me know if it’s missing any links.
2/6: in class: Sherry Turkle on The Colbert Report (2011)
2/8: Bill Keller, “The Twitter Trap”
2/10: in class: Rachel Botsman’s TED talk “The Case for Collaborative Consumption” (2010)
2/13: Maria Bustillos, “Wikipedia and the Death of the Expert”
2/17: Virginia Heffernan, “What Wikipedia is Best at Explaining”
2/20: “Brainstorming”; in class: Stefana Broadbent’s TED talk “How the Internet Enables Intimacy” (2009)
2/22: Virginia Heffernan, “The Old Internet Neighborhoods”; in class: Christopher “moot” Poole’s TED talk “The Case for Anonymity Online” (2010)
2/24: Ryan Singel, “Blogging ‘Peaks,’ But Reports of Its Death Are Exaggerated”
2/29: Ryan Cordell, “Unfriending for Sanity”
3/7: Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look up Wikipedia’s Contributor List”
3/9: in class: Johanna Blakely’s TED talk “Social Media and the End of Gender” (2010)
3/12: danah boyd, “Twitter: ‘pointless babble’ or peripheral awareness + social grooming?”; in class: TED talk: “Evan Williams on Listening to Twitter Users” (2009)
3/14: “College Writing”
3/26: “Revising Drafts” (UNC’s Writing Center); “Reorganizing Drafts” (UNC’s Writing Center)
3/28: danah boyd, “Teens Don’t Tweet… Or Do They?”; Alice Marwick & danah boyd, “Tweeting Teens Can Handle Public Life”
3/30: skim boyd’s “I Tweet Honestly, I Tweet Passionately” for argument, main evidence/analysis, & organization: no need to print or annotate (linked from here)
4/11: “Fellows Friday with Evgeny Morozov”; in class: Evgeny Morozov’s TED talk “How the Net Aids Dictatorships” (2009)
4/16: in class: Rebecca MacKinnon’s TED talk “Let’s Take Back the Internet!” (2011)
4/20: Barbara Kantrowitz & Pat Wingert, “Breakup 2.0: A new book explores …”
4/23: in class: Ethan Zuckerman’s TED talk “Listening to Global Voices” (2010)
4/25: Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
5/2: Clay Shirky, “Why Abundance is Good: A Reply to Nick Carr”; Clay Shirky’s TED talk “How Cognitive Surplus will Change the World” (2010)
5/4: “UCLA study finds that searching the Internet increases brain function”
5/7: in class: Eli Pariser’s TED talk “Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles’” (2011)
5/9: danah boyd, “A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark …”
5/11: in class: Alexis Ohanian’s TED talk “How to Make a Splash in Social Media”
