Online Community

COM 429: Digital Media & Distributed Society
Spring 2007

T/TH 12:30-1:45 p.m. | LAU 121 & various dining establishments

Professor: Brian Carroll
Office: LAU 100
Office hours: MWF 1-3; Thurs. 2-4 | by appt. | drop-ins welcome

berry phone: 368-6944
email: bc at berry.edu
on the Web: www.cubanxgiants.com
bc's blog: Wandering Rocks

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Student blogroll

Research guide (download) | Common research problems (download) | Principles of Academic Honesty (download)

Note: This page will change; please refer to it frequently. Do not merely print it out the first week of class.

mmm	Agenda	Assignments & Resources
Week 1 Jan. 10-12	Introductions, syllabus, key course concepts Setting up a blog \| Where to meet Man & Machine	Read: Course outline and syllabus Sign up for NYTimes.com emailed headlines Begin reading Mashable Maybe subscribe to Wired magazine
Week 2 Jan. 15-19	Discuss research and set up Social Capital What is "community"? How do we define it? No class Tuesday (BC in Germany) Class Thursday at the Bean(e)ry in Krannert	Read: Social Capital (Lin), Part I
Week 3 Jan. 22-26	T: Social Capital, Part I (quiz Tuesday on part 1) TH: Special Guest -- Robert Swarthout, Paperbackswap.com & Swapacd.com Class Tuesday @ Moe's, 110 Shorter Avenue Class Thursday @ Bean(e)ry	Read: Social Capital (Lin), Part I Due Wednesday at 5pm: first blogpost (and URL to the prof.)
Week 4 Jan. 29-Feb. 2	T: Social Capital, Parts II & III (quiz) (Jessie & Amber, co-leading discussion) TH: Privacy, Trust and Reputation Class Tuesday @ Bean(e)ry Class Thursday @ LAU 116	Read: Social Capital, Parts II & III Surf: MTV's Laguna Beach \| Brickfish.com
Week 5 Feb. 5-9	T: Emergence (Ross & Ashley, co-leading) Meet at Bella Roma (I'll call ahead) TH: Privacy, Trust and Reputation (LAU 116)	Read: Emergence (Johnson), pps 1-129; NY Times article on social networking etiquette; using blogs to counter rumor; social networking in business; Privacy reading; Warren & Brandeis on privacy (For Times articles, access through Lexis Nexis Academic) Surf: Bix.com \| Yelp.com \| Glam.com \| Digg.com \| Infonomia.com \| Crowdsourcing blog \| GetaFirstLife Due: Monday by 5 p.m., research proposals on your blogs
Week 6 Feb. 12-16	T: Emergence II (Katie & Nicole co-leading) Meet in the Bean(e)ry TH: Privacy and Trust, part II (LAU 116)	Read: Emergence, pps 130-234 Due: Wednesday by 5 p.m., 2d round of research proposals on your blogs (for those I've requested) Surf: ThirdAge.com (senior cits); Prospero Technologies; Groupee
Week 7 Feb. 19-23	T: No class TH: The Long Tail (Liz & Amanda co-leading) > Meet in the Gameroom in Krannert	Read: The Long Tail (Anderson), pps 1-124 Surf: eBay's Community Values
Week 8 Feb. 26-Mar. 2	T: No class (BC at Poynter Institute in Tampa) TH: The Long Tail II (Elizabeth & Tara co-leading); Meet in the Science Building outside "classroom"	Read:The Long Tail (Anderson), pps 125-226
Week 9 Mar. 5-9	T: The Well (virtual community's beginnings); short history of The Well TH: "Me" Media and Web 2.0 (Celia & Callie co-leading)	Read: "Me" Media, New Yorker (sent to you via email); "The Hit Factory" from Wired magazine; two Chronicle of Higher Education readings Due: Monday by 5 p.m., 2d definition of community, posted to your blogs Surf: Ning.com \| What's next in Web 2.0?
Week 10 Mar. 19-23	MySpace Meet Tuesday in LAU 116	Read: Research prism Due: Notes/journal of MySpace exploration (TUE)
Week 11 Mar. 26-30	FaceBook (Meet in LAU 116) Ashley's prism \| Elizabeth's prism No class Thursday (BC in Austin, Texas)	Read: Stutzman I & II for Tuesday Surf: MapleStory.com \| True.com Due: Notes/journal of FaceBook exploration and "how to fix MySpace" on blogs (TUE)
Week 12 April 2-6	SecondLife (meet at Schroeder's Martha Berry, Tuesday; meet in LAU 116 on Thursday)	Read: Two short articles from the WSJ for Tuesday Surf: Habbo Hotel \| Runescape \| World of Warcraft \| Puzzle Pirates Due: Notes/journal of SecondLife exploration (TUE)
Week 13 April 9-13	Research Presentations in LAU 116 Mobile social networking sites: Zannel \| VelvetPuffin \| Mbuzzy \| Mywaves \| Mobango	Tuesday: Liz \| Tara \| Amanda Thursday: Nicole \| Amber \| Celia, part 1
Weeks 14 April 16-20	Research Presentations in LAU 116 NBC Social Networking Offline v. Online? MySpace's choice of ads?	Tuesday: Celia, part 2 \| Ross \| Elizabeth \| Katie Thursday: Ashley \| Jessie \| Callie
Week 15 April 23-27	Meet Tuesday at Schroeders Thursday: last day of class	Tuesday: Wrapping it up \| Course evals Due Thursday: one last blog post

Links, Resources & Artifacts

Clusty.com (search)

Research, News & Information

Lists

Wikipedia's list of social networking sites

Wikipedia's list of social networking researchers

Wikipedia's list of network theory topics

questions or comments? bc at berry.edu
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