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Participatory Media/Collective Action: Fall 2007

296A-3
Time: F 9-12
Location: 202 South Hall
CCN: 42814 (3 units)

• Course Description

• Assignments and Grading

• Instructors: Howard Rheingold and Xiao Qiang

• Student Pages

• Instructor Page: Howard Rheingold

• Instructor Page: Xiao Qiang

• Participatory Media/Collective Action Key Concepts, Glossary and Case Studies

• Class Blogs

• pmca del.icio.us tag

• pmca group project del.icio.us tag

• Group Project

Syllabus

Introduction to Participatory Media

• August 31, Participatory Media Theory and Practice (Howard)

 Lab: Getting Started With Blogs and Getting Started With Wikis

• September 7, From Virtual Communities to Networked Individualism (Howard, Xiao)

Lab: The Rhetoric of Blogging （1） - Filtering and Connected Writing

• Sept 14, The Rise of the Blogosphere (Dan Gillmor)

Lab: Social Bookmarks

• Sept 21, Social and Cultural Peer Production (Howard)

Lab: The Rhetoric of Blogging （2）- Critical Public Discourse and Advocacy and selection of Group Projects

• Sept 28, Theory of Networks and Information Cascade (Xiao)

Lab: Wiki (2): Learning Journals and Collaborative Authorship Show Howard video

Part II Communication, Media and Cyberpower

• October 5, Ideology, Hegemony and Symbolic Power(?? Xiao)

Lab: RSS (Next week -- remember to bring digital cameras with cables or card readers to transfer pix to PCs)

• Oct. 12, Media and Political Communications (Howard, Xiao)

Lab: Flickr

• Oct. 19, Origins and Nature of the Public Sphere (Howard, Xiao)

Lab: Video Sharing and Video Blogging

• Oct. 26, The Public Sphere and Participatory Media (Howard, Xiao)

Lab: Video Production -- capturing, editing, publishing

Part III Networked Activism

• November 2, Social Movements in the Network Society (Xiao, Howard)

Lab: Podcasting -- finding, listening, subscribing, creating and publishing

• Nov. 9, Networked Activism and Collective Identity (Xiao, Howard)

Lab: Introduction to Second Life: joining, creating an avatar, navigation

• Nov. 16, Smart Mobs (Howard, Xiao)

Lab: Second Life: Meeting in Second Life, creating objects

• Nov. 30, Soft Power and Emerging Global Civil Society (Xiao, Howard)

Lab: Work on student projects

• Dec. 7, Student Project Presentations