Communication / Information Science 320 -- New Media and Society

what is the impact of new forms of advertising on society? NexGenAds: the impact of new forms of advertising on society Eric Chen, Alexander DeSimone, Amanda Li, Robert Xiao Effects of New media Advertising on Society John Afriyie, Joseph D'Angelo, Nicholas Indovina, Erica Southerland Advertising Society Eugene Chang, Rebecca Morrow, Christina Reda, Jonathon Yu New Forms of Advertising (Communication 320) Garrett Bernstein, Sami Greenberg, Kevin Mendel, Ian Ward We think you're ADVERTASTIC! Lindsay Bass, Caryn Ganeles, Andrew Shaughnessy Facebook group: "New Forms of Advertising" Brenda Cannizzaro, Katlyn Donoghue, Megan Hughes, Jackie Perez, Lacey Workman Facebook group: "Impacts of Advertising" Taryn Beverly, Brittany Forgues, Jessica Hadala, Jason Hartford, Brian Porrell Impacts of New Forms of Advertising Lauren Kramer, Nicole Leitner, Laura Miller, Olivia Oran, Marli Sussman New Forms of Advertising and Society** Julie Bai, Brandon Chiazza, Julia Dorce, Kristen Tauer Facebook group: "New Advertising and its Impact on Society" Janice Hurh, Garrett Huyler, Rommel Medina, Jay Pierce, Stephen Yanchuk TA: Morris Xu

what is the cultural significance of amateur media production? Facebook group: "Your 15 Minutes of Fame: Amateur Media Production in the Age of Web 2.0" Lauren Fiumara, Stefani Negrin, Adam Paz, Joel Posner, Jason Shapiro Cornell Comm 320: examining the cultural significance and effects of amateur media production Tyler Armstrong, Kelly Camin, Rashaun Cheston Murrell, Ashley Downs, Amanda Hjellming Facebook group: "Cultural Significance of Amateur Media Production" Pamela Ahn, Micah Bell, Ashley Cummings, Collin Robinson AMP320: a look into the cultural significance of amateur media production Jenna Bromberg, Justine Fields, Peter Finocchiaro, Bianca Ghiselli, Ian Laiks Facebook group: "Amateur Media Production and Society" Peggy Fandrich, Chris Fontas, Lorraine Gregory, Derek MacKenzie Guerilla Media: exploring the cultural effects of amateur production in the new media environment through scholarly resources, videos, and discussion Neslihan Ergec, Catherine Murdoch, Teresa Peltier, Sumesh Thundathil, Jennifer Vargas does new media tend to produce a shared, or a fragmented culture? Cultural Implications of New Media: a blog examining the question of fragmented culture in the western world Patrick Castrenze, Chin-Shan Lee, Grace Oh, Hauwa Otori Facebook group: "Does new media tend to produce a shared, or a fragmented culture?" Caren Carlson, Jovita Kwan, Alexander Lee, Xiangning Li, Tiffany Yu Unifying and Dividing Effects of New Media on Culture Robert Grue, Eric Haskel, Tommy Lei, Thomas Liu, William Smith is there a problem with stereotypes in new media? Facebook group: "Exploration of Stereotypes in New Media" Jaime Churchill, Rachel Ginsburg, Jennifer Gottfried, William Halloran TA: Catalina Toma

what is the role of new media in the political process? New Media and Politics Melanie Aliperti, Emily Cohn, Robin Kornet, Alexandra Reimer Facebook group: What is the role of new media in the political process? William Douglas, Austin Lord, Dean Strelau, Neil Wusu Call Me Taft: the role of new media in the political process Jonathan Baxter, Alice Choo, Cameron Hall, Jennifer Lesczinski what is the significance of corporate power in new media industries? Mediagirlz4's Weblog: What is the significance of corporate power in new media industries? Lauren Clarke, Cristina Morales, Rolena Richardson, Nikki Rivera Corporate Power in New Media Brendan Gilbert, Ari Goldman, Eamon Kelleher, Colleen Krieger what is the shape and significance of online journalism? Facebook group "Online Journalism for Dummies" Bryan Biello, Matt Manacher, Caton McKenna, Caroline Newton, Josh Perlin how are new media changing what counts as reliable information? How are new media changing what counts as reliable information? Ed Dehm, Douglas Forster, Robert Jacobs, Matthew Rawding, Abena Oteng-Agipong Facebook group: group "New Media Reliability (COMM 320)" Peri Gutstein, Jeffrey Hertzberg, Bryce Klinesteker, Meg Risica, RJ Rowland what are the implications of digital media for copyright? Free Mickey!!! Keith Bodin, Nzingha Ford, Scott Gorski, David Markowitz what are the privacy implications of new media technology? Facebook group: "Secrets of Online Privacy" Jessy Berkey, Ashley Garvey, Elise Menaker TA: Dima Epstein

 

= introduction =
JAN 22 ~~ introduction	supplemental materials...
JAN 24 ~~ new media? Steven Chaffee and Miriam Metzger, "The End of Mass Communication?" Mass Communication and Society, 4.4 (2001)	supplemental materials...
JAN 29 ~~ society? James Curran, "What Democracy Requires of the Media," in Geneva Overholser and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, eds., The Institutions of American Democracy: The Press (2005) Raymond Williams, Keywords, "Media," "Society," "Culture" (1985)	supplemental materials...
JAN 31 ~~ what's new? Carolyn Marvin, "Introduction" in When Old Technologies Were New (1988) [available in Google Books preview]	supplemental materials...
= the production of new media =
FEB 5 ~~ ownership, concentration, convergence Mark Deuze, "Creative Industries, Convergence Culture, and Media Work" in Media Work (2007) "And Then There Were Eight" [chart], Mother Jones (March 2007)	supplemental materials... examples...
FEB 7 ~~ case: Google Elizabeth Van Couvering, "New Media? The Political Economy of Search Engines" [chapter 4 of dissertation in progress] Ken Auletta, The New Yorker (January 14, 2008) "The Search Party: Google squares off with its Capitol Hill critics" Google, "Mission Statement"	supplemental materials... examples...
FEB12 ~~ producers, consumers, users Henry Jenkins. "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry" in Convergence Culture: Where Old Media and New Media Collide (2006) Pew Internet & American Life Project, "Where Do You Fit?" [survey] (2007) Pew Internet & American Life Project, "A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users" (2007) [only the "summary" pp i-vi is required]	supplemental materials... examples...
FEB 14 ~~ case: YouTube Henry Jenkins, "Nine Propositions Towards a Cultural Theory of YouTube" (May 28, 2007) Henry Jenkins, "Astroturf, Humbugs, and Lonely Girls" (September 13, 2006)	supplemental materials... examples...
FEB 19 ~~ advertising Joseph Turow, "Audience Construction and Culture Production: Marketing Surveillance in the Digital Age," The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, 597.1 (2005) Frank Rose, "Commercial Break," Wired (December 2006)	supplemental materials... examples...
FEB 21 ~~ case: the "long tail" and changing modes of distribution Chris Anderson, "The Long Tail," Wired (December 2004) Derek Kompare, "Publishing Flow: DVD Box Sets and the Reconception of Television," Television and New Media, 7.4 (2006)	supplemental materials... examples...
= new media and politics =
FEB 26 ~~ online journalism Mark Deuze, "The Web and its Journalisms," New Media and Society 5.2 (2003) Project for Excellence in Journalism, "State of the News Media, 2007" [yearly report]	supplemental materials... examples...
FEB 28 ~~ newsblogging J. D. Lasica, "When Webloggers Commit Journalism" (September 17, 2002) Jay Rosen, "What's radical about the Weblog Form in Journalism?" (October 16, 2003) Jay Rosen, "What's conservative about the Weblog Form in Journalism?" (October 17, 2003) Jay Rosen, "Bloggers vs Journalists is Over" (January 21, 2005)	supplemental materials... examples...
MAR 4 ~~ case: "daily me"? Cass Sunstein, "The Daily Me" in Republic 2.0 (2007)	supplemental materials... examples...
MAR 6 ~~ new media and democracy paper 1 due Benjamin Barber, "Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy," Political Science Quarterly, 113.4 (1999)	supplemental materials... examples...
MAR 11 ~~ guest lecture: Dima Epstein, "Political discourse 2.0? WikiCandidate" Zizi Papacharissi, "The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere," New Media & Society 4.1 (2002) Scott Wright and John Street, "Democracy, Deliberation and Design: The Case of Online Discussion Forums," New Media & Society 9.5 (2007)	supplemental materials... examples...
MAR 13 ~~ political campaigns Philip Howard, "Deep Democracy, Thin Citizenship: The Impact of Digital Media on Campaign Strategy," The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, 597.1 (2005) CNN/YouTube 2008 presidential debates [watch at least 4 clips from each debate] Democratic debate Republican debate   spring break	supplemental materials... examples...
= new media and culture =
MAR 25 ~~ shared culture and fragmentation Terry Teachout, "Culture in the Age of Blogging," Commentary 119.6 (2005) Michael Bérubé, "Culture and Society" (June 15, 2005) YouTube, "Top Ten Videos of 2007"	supplemental materials... examples...
MAR 27 ~~ mediated spaces and individual experiences Roger Silverstone and Eric Hirsch, "Information and Communication Technologies and the Moral Economy of the Household" in Roger Silverstone and Eric Hirsch, eds, Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces (1992) [available in Google Books preview]	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 1 ~~ case: the iPod Steven Levy, "Personal" in The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness (2006)	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 3 ~~ representation and stereotypes Lisa Nakamura, "Race in/for Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" in David Trend, ed., Reading Digital Culture (2001)	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 8 ~~ guest lecture: Catalina Toma: "The truth about lying in online dating profiles" David Buckingham, "Introducing Identity" In David Buckingham, ed., Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (2007) danah boyd, "Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life" in David Buckingham, ed., Youth, Identity, and Digital Media (2007)	supplemental materials... examples...
= new questions: thinking about technology in the study of media =
APR 10 ~~ privacy and surveillance Mark Andrejevic, "Introduction" in iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era (2007) danah boyd, "Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence" Convergence 14.1 (2008)	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 15 ~~ reliable information paper 2 due David Weinberger, "The New Order of Order," in Everything is Miscellaneous (2007) Wikipedia, "Wikipedia" Wikipedia, "Five Pillars" Wikipedia, "Criticism of Wikipedia" Stacey Schiff, "Know it All: Can Wikipedia Conquer Expertise?" The New Yorker (July 31, 2006)	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 17 ~~ guest lecture: Dan Cosley: "inside Wikipedia" Wikipedia, "Cornell" Wikipedia, "talk: Cornell" Wikipedia, "user: Chris the Speller" Wikipedia, "Community Portal" explore (at least) one of the following, based on your last name; bring to class a 2-paragraph synopsis: (1) what does this tool do, (2) why might it be of social consequence? This synopsis will be turned in as attendance A-D: WikiScanner E-H: WikiDashboard I-N: Trust Color O-Z: History Flow	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 22 ~~ copyright and DRM Kieran Healy, "Digital Technology and Cultural Goods," The Journal of Political Philosophy 10.4 (2002) Lawrence Lessig, "What Things Regulate" in Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999)	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 24 ~~ case: the remix John Shiga, "Copy and Persist: The Logic of Mash-up Culture," Critical Studies in Media Communication 24.2 (2007) Chuck Klosterman, "The D.J. Auteur" New York Times Magazine (June 18, 2006)	supplemental materials... examples...
APR 29 ~~ guest lecture: Tracy Mitrano: "IT policy and the university" Yochai Benkler, "Freedom in the Commons: Towards a Political Economy of Information" (2003)	supplemental materials... examples...
= conclusion =
MAY 1 ~~ conclusion: what does "public media" mean now?	supplemental materials... examples...
final project due during exam week