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| - | # Connected Media Practices | ||
| - | Who owns your tweets? Can a “like” make a difference in the world? What kind of society is social media making? | ||
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| - | This course is a critical, collective immersion into the practices of social networking, online and off. Rather than simply taking established platforms like Facebook and Snapchat for granted, we will experiment with a wide variety of networks in order to expand our tactical repertoires. We will study the dominant structures and business models of the social-media ecosystem in order to spread messages effectively. But will we also explore ways of subverting and opting out of that ecosystem in order to create networks of our own. | ||
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| - | Students need not have prior experience with particular social-media platforms or computer languages, but they should expect to teach themselves some. By the end of the course, the class will produce a whitepaper outlining the structure, function, and economy of an online social-media platform. | ||
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| - | ## Objectives | ||
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| - | * Gain hands-on experience with a variety of social-media networks | ||
| - | * Learn to think critically and tactically about networked society | ||
| - | * Cultivate habits of contributing to and protecting a commons | ||
| - | * Practice entrepreneurship and teamwork | ||
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| - | ## Expectations | ||
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| - | Each student is expected to: | ||
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| - | * adhere to the shared [[agreements]] decided upon by the class. | ||
| - | * participate in leading one of our class sessions, as well as the online discussion leading up to it, using a platform of their choosing. | ||
| - | * be an active participant in every online and class discussion and demonstrate thoughtful engagement with the course material, augmenting the course material with relevant sources. | ||
| - | * help devise a plan for a common final project and identify a role to play within that process. | ||
| - | * turn in a portfolio reflecting one's contributions to the final project: | ||
| - | * Produce a contribution to the whitepaper of approximately 1800-2000 words, plus at least one example of multimedia such as images, wireframes, screenshots, or videos. | ||
| - | * Articulate a challenge or problem and present background research on how other platforms have addressed similar challenges and what options could be explored. | ||
| - | * Present 1-3 specific, plausible solutions appropriate to our platform, with pros and cons. | ||
| - | * Each contribution should be compatible with those of the class as a whole. | ||
| - | * Format the text in Chicago style, in [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax), with citations by hyperlink (no bibliography or footnotes), as well as correct spelling and grammar. | ||
| - | * contribute to evaluating one another's contributions to discussion and the final project. | ||
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| - | ## Evaluation | ||
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| - | Grades will be determined as follows: | ||
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| - | * 40 points - quality and persistence of participation in discussions, online and in class | ||
| - | * 20 points - effectiveness in fostering a vibrant discussion in class and online, and in contributing useful materials for us to consider | ||
| - | * 30 points - contributions to the final project, as demonstrated by a portfolio due on the final day of class | ||
| - | * 10 points - outline | ||
| - | * 20 points - final | ||
| - | * 10 points - anonymous feedback from fellow students on contributions to the final project | ||
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| - | If you cannot attend a class, please discuss the reason ahead of time with the instructor. Otherwise it will affect the participation grade. | ||
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| - | ## Units | ||
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| - | * [[We are all networks now]] | ||
| - | * [[Futures past and present]] | ||
| - | * [[How the network sees you]] | ||
| - | * [[Commoners]] | ||
| - | * [[Sharing, on-demand]] | ||
| - | * [[App imaginaries]] | ||
| - | * [[Decisions]] | ||
| - | * [[Games and hacks]] | ||
| - | * [[Mobilization]] | ||
| - | * [[Privacy, openness, hygiene]] | ||
| - | * [[Victims and vigilantes]] | ||
| - | * [[Blockchains]] | ||
| - | * [[Wasting time online]] | ||
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| - | *This syllabus is a living document. Any part of it may be brought up for discussion and modified by a consensus of those present during any official class period.* | ||