Course Calendar
January 19th, 2007 by 
Richard Parent
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Course Calendar
| Public and/or Private? | January 17 | FIRST DAY |
| January 19 | What is Culture? What is Cyberculture? | |
| January 22 | Clifford Geertz: “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” (WebCT) | |
| January 24 | Jim Thomas: “Reexamining the Ethics of Internet Research” OSR 187-201 | |
| January 26 | Geertz & Thomas & E-mail | |
| January 29 | Susan B. Barnes: “Issues of Attribution and Identification in Online Social Research” OSR 203-222 | |
| January 31 | Cultural Foci: IM, SMS, Mobile Phones, and the iPod | |
| February 2 | Simone de Beauvoir: from The Second Sex (WebCT) Recommended: Laura Mulvey: from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (WebCT) |
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| February 5 | Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky: “A Propaganda Model” MCS 257-294 | |
| Personal Publishing: Mass Media from One(s) | February 7 | Cultural Focus: Blogs |
| February 9 | Stuart Hall: “Encoding/Decoding” MCS 163-173 Recommended: Max Horkheimer and Thoedor W. Adorno: “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” MCS 41-72 |
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| February 12 | Richard Kahn and Douglas M. Kellner: “Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach” MCS 703-725 | |
| February 14 | Cultural Focus: YouTube | |
| February 16 | Raymond Williams: “Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory” MCS 130-143 | |
| February 19 | NO CLASSES | |
| February 21 | Lori Kendall: “Participants & Observers in Online Ethnography” OSR 125-140 | |
| February 23 | Annette N. Markham: “Representation in Online Ethnographies: A Matter of Context Sensitivity” OSR 141-155 | |
| February 26 | Kathleen LeBesco: “Managing Visibility, Intimacy, and Focus in Online Critical Ethnography” OSR 63-79 | |
| February 28 | Cultural Focus: Wikipedia | March 2 | Shing-Ling Sarina Chen, G. Jon Hall & Mark D. Johns: “Research Paparazzi in Cyberspace: The Voices of the Researched” OSR 157-175 |
| March 5 | Katherine M. Klegg Smith: “’Electronic Eavesdropping’: The Ethical Issues Involved in Conducting a Virtual Ethnography” OSR 223-238 | |
| March 7 | Recap & Synthesize | |
| March 9 | MIDTERM EXAM | |
| March 12 | NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK | |
| March 14 | NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK | |
| March 16 | NO CLASSES: SPRING BREAK | |
| Cultures of Amazement and Amusement | March 19 | Cultural Focus: Second Life |
| March 21 | Cultural Focus: Second Life | |
| March 23 | CLASS CANCELLED | |
| March 26 | Guy Debord: “The Commodity as Spectacle” MCS 117-121 Recommended: Jean Baudrillard: “The Precession of Simulacra” MCS 453-481 |
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| March 28 | Guy Debord: “The Commodity as Spectacle” MCS 117-121 | |
| March 30 | Cultural Focus: YTMND | |
| April 2 | Henry Jenkins: “Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture” MCS 549-576 | |
| April 4 | Henry Jenkins: “Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture” MCS 549-576 | |
| April 6 | Cultural Foci: Worth1000 and Something Awful’s Photoshop Phridays | |
| April 9 | Louis Althusser: “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Toward an Investigation)” MCS 79-87 Recommended: Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels: “The Ruling Class and Ruling Ideas” MCS 9-12 |
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| April 11 | Louis Althusser: “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Toward an Investigation)” MCS 79-87 | |
| Crowd Control | April 13 | Cultural Focus: Remixed Movie Trailers |
| April 16 | Cultural Foci: MySpace and FaceBook | |
| April 18 | Cultural Foci: Digg, Slashdot, Fark, and Reddit | |
| April 20 | Cultural Focus: Second Life Recommended: Walter Benjamin: “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” MCS 18-40 |
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| April 23 | Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart: “Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club” MCS 122-129 Recommended: Roland Barthes: “Operation Margarine; Myth Today” MCS 99-106 |
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| April 25 | Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart: “Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club” MCS 122-129 | |
| April 27 | Cultural Focus: Other Virtual Worlds | |
| April 30 | Recap & Synthesize | |
| May 2 | Recap & Synthesize | |
| May 4 | SECTION B — FINAL EXAM – 11:45am-2:45pm, L-309 | |
| May 8 | SECTION A — FINAL EXAM - 8am-11am, L-309 |
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