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 **MDST 5001**
-*the real engine of change is never "critical mass"; dramatic and systemic change always begins with "critical connections."*
+What are the economies that underlie our connections? This course will undertake a journey into the practice and theory of media entrepreneurship, introducing the dominant norms of entrepreneurial cultures, together with avenues for critique and transformation. By turning a critical eye to the networks around us today, we will learn to design tools and economies for networks to come.
-—Grace Lee Boggs, _The Next American Revolution_ (2012)
-This course is a critical, collective immersion into the theories and practices of social networking, online and off. Rather than simply taking established platforms like Facebook and Snapchat for granted, we will consider 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 transforming that ecosystem by creating networks of our own.
-Students need not have prior experience with particular networked platforms, but they should expect to teach themselves some. Throughout the course, students will conduct action research toward developing a new platform or improving an existing one.
 ## Instructor
 Nathan Schneider
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 ## Objectives
-  * Learn to think critically and tactically about networked society
+* Gain fluency in the idioms of dominant entrepreneurial cultures
-  * Cultivate habits of contributing to and protecting a commons
+* Develop a repertoire for strategic engagement with digital infrastructure
-  * Practice entrepreneurship and teamwork
+* Practice social entrepreneurship and teamwork
 ## Expectations
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 Throughout the semester, each student will (as a percentage of the total course grade):
-  * Take part in annotation and discussion of assigned material through the [[Hypothesis]] tool, making frequent and substantive contributions **(15%)**
+  * Each week, turn in on Canvas before class time and be prepared to share in class a *Connection* **(25%)**, which includes:
-  * Turn in (in the D2L discussion by class time and bring to class) a "connection" each week---a reflection on one side of a piece of paper, and perhaps a show-and-tell object, that connects assigned materials to the student's platform project **(25%)**
+    * a sketch, in text or images, of an entrepreneurial idea related to the week's topic, including a problem, an opportunity, and a value proposition
-  * Be an active participant in every class discussion and demonstrate thoughtful engagement with the course material, augmenting the course material with relevant sources **(15%)**
+    * a explanatory reflection on how the sketch connects to the assigned materials, in several paragraphs with evidence of close examination
-    * Online students only: By Thursday morning each week, contribute at least 3 substantial comments on fellow students' "connection" posts that engage with assigned materials
+  * Be an active participant in every class discussion and demonstrate thoughtful engagement with the course materials, augmenting them with relevant sources **(20%)**
+  * At one class meeting during the semester, develop an imaginative way to lead the discussion of the week's assigned materials **(10%)**
   * Hold at least one in-person meeting with instructor during the course, by appointment **(5%)**
-If you cannot attend a class meeting or participate online on a given week, please discuss the reason ahead of time with the instructor. Otherwise it will affect the participation grade.
+If you cannot attend a class meeting on a given week, please discuss the reason ahead of time with the instructor. Otherwise it will affect the participation grade.
-#### Platform project
+#### Whitepaper project
-The core of this course is an action-research project in which students work on a digital platform that serves the university community. This may involve the development of a concept for a new platform or a recommendation for improving an existing one. The whole class may work on a single project together, or students may work in groups of at least two. For the platform project, groups of students will each produce a [[whitepaper]] outlining the structure, function, and economy of an online platform. **(40%)**
+The core of this course is a group-based project to propose, in detail, a networked enterprise for social impact. This may involve the development of a concept for a new network or a recommendation for dramatically improving an existing one. The whole class may work on a single project together, or students may work in groups of at least two. Plan for considerable collaboration time outside of class. Groups of students will produce a [[whitepaper]] outlining the structure, function, and economy of their proposed enterprise. **(40%)**
 Each student will:
   * Take responsibility for one section of their group's whitepaper, between 1,800 and 2,000 words, including relevant visual aids, following appropriate [[citation standards]]
-  * Articulate a challenge or problem and present background research on how other platforms have addressed similar challenges and what options could be explored
+  * Articulate a challenge or problem and present background research on how other enterprises have addressed similar challenges and what options could be explored
-  * Describe action-research methods and findings
+  * Present one or two specific, plausible strategies, weighing their costs and benefits
-  * Present 1-3 specific, plausible solutions appropriate to the platform, with pros and cons
+  * Engage with at least two assigned materials from the course in a sophisticated fashion
-  * Engage with at least 2 examples assigned content from the course in a sophisticated fashion
-The platform project is a process, not just a result, including (with grades as a percentage of the project total):
+The whitepaper project is a process, not just a result, including (with grades as a percentage of the project total):
-  * Approved proposal for project and role **(10%)**
+  * Research plan of 500--700 words, including visuals such as sketches or charts **(15%)**
-  * Research plan of 600-800 words, along with 3 _Platform Design Toolkit_ worksheets **(10%)**
+  * Complete draft in time for [[:peer review]] **(15%)**
-  * Participation in peer review of two fellow students' sections outside of your group **(10%)**
+  * Participation in peer review of two fellow students' sections **(10%)**
   * Final draft, due on the last day of class **(50%)**
-  * Anonymous feedback from collaborators on project contributions **(20%)**
+  * Group participation, based on anonymous feedback from collaborators **(10%)**
-Sections will be evaluated individually. But to reflect our accountability to one another, all students are expected to help in evaluating one another's contributions to the platform project. Evaluations are anonymous to fellow students. Evaluate peers' projects based on the criteria in the Expectations section of this syllabus, as well as based on the student's contributions to the collegiality of the team effort.
+Sections will be evaluated individually. But to reflect our accountability to one another, all students are expected to help in evaluating one another's contributions to the whitepaper project. Feedback is anonymous to fellow students. Reflect on peers' projects based on the criteria in the Expectations section of this syllabus, as well as based on the student's contributions to the collegiality of the team effort. The final determination of this last grade will be made by the instructor, informed by peer feedback.
 ### Grading
-Based on the stated point structure, grades will be awarded as follows: A (94-100), A- (90-93), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), F (0-59).
+Based on the stated point structure, grades will be awarded as follows: A (94-100), A- (90-93), B+ (87-89), B (83-86), B- (80-82), C+ (77-79), C (73-76), C- (70-72), D+ (67-69), D (63-66), D- (60-62), F (0-59). The minimum passing grade is 60 for undergraduates and 70 for graduate students.
 ### Terms and conditions
-Each student is expected to:
+Together, we agree to:
   * Work together to foster a respectful, mature, convivial community based on discussion, accommodation, and attention
-  * Adhere to all [[university policies]] regarding academic integrity, behavior, and accessibility; we take responsibility for understanding them and the relevant procedures
+  * Adhere to all [[university policies]] regarding academic integrity, accessibility, behavior, discrimination, misconduct, and religious observances; we take responsibility for understanding them and the relevant procedures
-  * Respect the privacy of one another, keeping any materials or statements shared in class confidential unless permission is granted to do otherwise
+  * Respect student privacy, keeping any materials or statements shared in class confidential unless permission is granted to do otherwise
   * Refrain from the use of [[screen devices]] during class, except upon agreement with the instructor or for reasons of accessibility
+If you find yourself in a position where lack of access to food, housing, health care, or other basic necessities interferes with your studies, consider seeking support from the [Dean of Students](https://www.colorado.edu/studentaffairs/deanofstudents) and, if you feel comfortable doing so, your instructor. We will work to assist you however we can.
 ### Calendar
-*Fall 2017. All due dates are at 9 am.*
+All due dates are at 9 a.m. in the appropriate Canvas assignment:
-  * Platform project topic and role proposal due (in D2L discussion): 9/18
+  * Research plan: 10/14
-  * Research plan due (in D2L discussion): 10/16
+  * Whitepaper draft: 11/22
-  * Whitepaper draft (in D2L discussion): 12/1
+  * Complete whitepaper peer reviews: 11/25
-  * Complete whitepaper peer reviews (in D2L discussion): 12/4
+  * Whitepaper final: 12/9
-  * Whitepaper final due (in D2L dropbox): 12/11
 ## Units
-The units of the course probe the themes of connectedness and networks, from offline contingency to the online self. Throughout we will be reading from:
+The core text for this course is an open-access textbook: Michelle Ferrier and Elizabeth Mays (eds.), _[Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/)_ (Rebus Community, 2018). It is a practical introduction to media entrepreneurship, with a focus on journalism. Alongside it, we will explore critical and theoretical texts on related topics.
-  * Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, and Sangeet Paul Choudary, _Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make them Work for You_ (W. W. Norton, 2016)
-In addition to providing a window into the conceptual universe of the dominant corporate networks, this will likely provide useful guidance for the platform project.
-As students develop their platform projects, they will also make use of:
-  * Simone Cicero, _[The Platform Design Toolkit](http://platformdesigntoolkit.com/toolkit/)_
-Other assigned materials are organized on a weekly basis as follows.
-### Critical histories
-  * Jose van Dijck, _[The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media](http://0-www.oxfordscholarship.com.libraries.colorado.edu/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199970773.001.0001/acprof-9780199970773)_ (Oxford University Press, 2013)
-  * E. Alex Jung, "[Wages for Facebook](http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/wages-for-facebook)," _Dissent_ (Spring 2014)
-    * [WagesForFacebook.com](http://wagesforfacebook.com/)
-  * Community Research Lab, _[A Short Guide to Community Based Participatory Action Research](https://www.labor.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/A-Short-Guide-to-Community-Based-Participatory-Action-Research.pdf)_ (Advancement Project - Healthy City, 2011)
-    * Optional further reading: Stephen Kemmis, Robin McTaggart, and Rhonda Nixon, _[The Action Research Planner: Doing Critical Participatory Action Research](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-4560-67-2)_ (Springer, 2014)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 1
-### Critical connections
-  * Hannah Arendt, "[The Public and the Private Realm](http://frontdeskapparatus.com/files/arendt.pdf)," from _The Human Condition_ (1958)
-  * Jodi Dean, "[Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics](http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/1/1/51.full)," _Cultural Politics_ 1, no. 1 (2005)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 2
-### Net-worked
-  * "[Paul Baran and the Origins of the Internet](http://www.rand.org/about/history/baran.html)," RAND Corporation.
-  * Ted Nelson, _Computer Lib / Dream Machines_ (1974)
-    * [Excerpts](http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf) from Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (eds.), _The New Media Reader_ (MIT Press, 2003)
-    * What happened? Gary Wolf, "[The Curse of Xanadu](http://www.wired.com/1995/06/xanadu/)," _Wired_ (June 1, 2005)
-  * Manuel Castells, "{{:src:castells-network_society_2010_preface.pdf|Preface to the 2010 Edition}}," in _The Rise of the Network Society_, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
-  * Lori Emerson, "[What’s Wrong with the Internet and How to Fix It: an Interview with Internet Pioneer John Day](http://www.ctrl-z.net.au/journal/?slug=emerson-day-whats-wrong-with-the-internet-and-how-to-fix-it)," _Ctrl-Z_ 5 (2015)
-    * Bonus: Jay Kirby and Lori Emerson, "[As If, or, Using Media Archaeology to Reimagine Past, Present, and Future](http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4764) ([HTML](https://loriemerson.net/2016/06/25/as-if-or-using-media-archaeology-to-reimagine-past-present-and-future/)), _International Journal of Communication_ 10 (2016)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 3
-### Commoning
-  * Jeremy Adam Smith, "[How to Design the Commons (or, Elinor Ostrom Explained!)](http://www.shareable.net/blog/how-to-design-the-commons)," _Shareable_ (December 10, 2009)
-  * Federici, Silvia, "[Feminism and the Politics of the Commons](http://www.commoner.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/federici-feminism-and-the-politics-of-commons.pdf)," _The Commoner_ (2011)
-  * Yochai Benkler, "Introduction," in _[The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom](http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/wealth_of_networks/Main_Page)_ (Yale University Press, 2006)
-  * Gabriella Coleman, "[The Life of a Free Software Hacker](http://gabriellacoleman.org/Coleman-Coding-Freedom.pdf)," in _Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking_ (Princeton University Press, 2013)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 4
-### Being watched
-  * Tim Herrera, "[How to See What the Internet Knows About You (And How to Stop It)](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/smarter-living/how-to-see-what-the-internet-knows-about-you.html)," _The New York Times_ (July 3, 2017)
-  * Film: _[Terms and Conditions May Apply](http://colorado.kanopystreaming.com/video/terms-and-conditions-may-apply-1)_ (requires campus or VPN connection)
-  * Gary T. Marx, "[Humpty Dumpty Was Wrong - Consistency in Meaning Matters: Some Definitions of Privacy, Publicity, Secrecy, and Other Family Members](http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=secrecyandsociety)," _Secrecy and Society_ 1, no. 1 (November 2016)
-  * Joseph Turow, Michael Hennessey, and Nora Draper, _[The Tradeoff Fallacy: How Marketers Are Misrepresenting American Consumers and Opening Them Up to Exploitation](https://www.asc.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/TradeoffFallacy_1.pdf)_, report from the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania (June 2015)
-  * Elaine McArdle, "[The New Age of Surveillance](https://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/new-age-surveillance/), _Harvard Law Today_ (May 10, 2016)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 5
-### Sharing, on-demand
+### Entrepreneurialism (9/9)
-  * Pierre Bourdieu, "[The Forms of Capital](https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm)," in _Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education_, ed. J. Richardson (New York, Greenwood)
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Developing the Entrepreneurial Mindset](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/developing-the-entrepreneurial-mindset/)"
-  * Rachel Botsman, "[The currency of the new economy is trust](http://www.ted.com/talks/rachel_botsman_the_currency_of_the_new_economy_is_trust)," TED Talk (June 2012)
+* Joseph A. Schumpeter, "[The Creative Response in Economic History](https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2113338.pdf)," _Journal of Economic History_ 7, no. 2 (November 1947)
-  * Juliet Schor, "[Debating the Sharing Economy](http://www.greattransition.org/publication/debating-the-sharing-economy)," Great Transition Initiative (October 2014)
+* Campbell Jones and André Spicer, "[The Sublime Object of Entrepreneurship](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350508405051189), _Organization_ 12, no. 2 (2005)
-  * Lilly C Irani and M. Six Silberman, "[Turkopticon: Interrupting Worker Invisibility on Amazon Mechanical Turk](http://crowdsourcing-class.org/readings/downloads/ethics/turkopticon.pdf)," _Proceedings of CHI_ (2013).
+* Lilly Irani, "[Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship](https://escholarship.org/uc/item/33q5t84v)," _Science, Technology & Human Values_ 40, no. 5 (2015)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 6
+### Idea (9/16)
-### Organization nets
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Ideation](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/ideation/)"
+* Fred Turner, "[Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40060901)," _Technology and Culture_ 46, no. 3 (July 2005)
+* Jay Kirby and Lori Emerson, "[As If, or, Using Media Archaeology to Reimagine Past, Present, and Future](http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/4764) ([HTML](https://loriemerson.net/2016/06/25/as-if-or-using-media-archaeology-to-reimagine-past-present-and-future/))," _International Journal of Communication_ 10 (2016)
-  * Jo Freeman, "[The Tyranny of Structurelessness](http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm)," _The Second Wave_ 2, no. 1
+### For whom? (9/23)
-  * Gina Neff and David Stark, "[Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era](http://www.researchgate.net/publication/242439654_Responsive_Organization_in_the_internet_Era)," in Philip E.N. Howard and Steve Jones, eds., _Society Online: The_ _Internet in Context_ (Sage, 2003)
-  * Abby Fichtner, "[Agile Vs. Lean: Yeah Yeah, What's the Difference?](https://hackerchick.com/agile-vs-lean-yeah-yeah-whats-the-difference/)" _Hacker Chick_ (January 2012)
-  * Roger Hodge, "[First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122965/can-billion-dollar-corporation-zappos-be-self-organized)," _The New Republic_ (October 4, 2015)
-  * John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt, "Design Elements and Challenges," in _[Swarming and the Future of Conflict](https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/documented_briefings/2005/RAND_DB311.pdf)_ (RAND Corporation, 2000)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 7
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Customer Discovery](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/customer-discovery-acquisition/)"
+* Shoshana Zuboff, "[Big Other: Surveillance Capitalism and the Prospects of an Information Civilization](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/jit.2015.5)," _Journal of Information Technology_ 30, no. 1 (March 2015)
+* Jennifer Brandel, Mara Zepeda, Astrid Scholz, and Aniyia Williams, "[Zebras Fix What Unicorns Break](https://medium.com/@sexandstartups/zebrasfix-c467e55f9d96)" (March 8, 2017)
+### Reciprocity (9/30)
-### Sharing all the way down
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Business Models for Content & Technology Ventures](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/business-models-for-content-technology-ventures/)"
+* Juliet B. Schor and William Attwood‐Charles, "[The 'Sharing' Economy: Labor, Inequality, and Social Connection on For‐Profit Platforms](https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/bc1/schools/mcas/sociology/pdf/connected/Sharing%20Economy%20inequality%20labor%20and%20sociability%20Schor%20and%20Attwood-Charles.pdf)," _Sociology Compass_ 11 (2017)
+* Yochai Benkler, "[Peer Producton, the Commons, and the Future of the Firm](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1476127016652606)," _Strategic Organization_ 15, no. 2 (2017)
-  * Janelle Orsi, "[The Next Sharing Economy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpg4PjGtbu0)," YouTube (October 17, 2014)
+### Guest visit (10/7)
-  * Maira Sutton, "[What Is a Platform Co-op?](http://www.shareable.net/blog/a-shareable-explainer-what-is-a-platform-co-op)," _Shareable_ (August 16, 2016)
-  * Danny Spitzberg, "[Cooperative Organizing for an Inclusive Economy: The campaign to #BuyTwitter](https://ioo.coop/2017/10/21/cooperative-organizing-for-an-inclusive-economy-the-campaign-to-buytwitter/)," _The Cooperative Business Journal_ (summer 2017)
-  * Six Silberman, "[Reading Elinor Ostrom in Silicon Valley: Exploring Institutional Diversity on the Internet](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2957311)," _Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work_ (November 2016)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 8
+### Nonprofitism (10/14)
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Nonprofit Model Development](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/nonprofit-model-development/)"
+* Andrea Smith, "[Introduction: The Revolution Will Not Be Funded](https://www.collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Smith_Intro_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Funded.pdf)," in INCITE! Women of Color against Violence (ed.), _The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex_ (Duke University Press, 2017)
+* Nathan Schneider, "[An Internet of Ownership: Democratic Design for the Online Economy](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0038026118758533)," _Sociological Review_ 66, no. 2 (2018)
-### Money
+### Precariat (10/21)
-  * Brett Scott, "[The War on Cash](http://thelongandshort.org/society/war-on-cash)," _The Long and Short_, August 19, 2016
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Freelancing as Entrepreneurship and Consulting as Business Models](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/freelancing-as-entrepreneurship-and-consulting-as-business-models/)"
-  * Bitcoin origin stories:
+* Miriam Cherry, "[Beyond Misclassification: The Digital Transformation of Work](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2734288)," _Comparative Labor, Law, and Policy Journal_ 37 (2015-2016)
-    * Satoshi Nakamoto, "[Bitcoin v0.1 released](https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg10142.html)," The Cryptography Mailing List (January 9, 2009)
+* Guy Standing, "[The Precariat](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1536504214558209)," _Contexts_ 13, no. 4 (2014)
-    * Satoshi Nakamoto, "[Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency](http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/forum/topics/bitcoin-open-source)," P2P Foundation Ning (February 11, 2009)
-    * GoWestBTC, "[An Ode to Satoshi Nakamoto](http://www.thebitcointrader.com/2011/12/ode-to-satoshi-nakamoto.html)," _The Bitcoin Trader_ (December 15, 2011)
-  * Nathan Schneider, "[After the Bitcoin Gold Rush](https://newrepublic.com/article/121089/how-small-bitcoin-miners-lose-crypto-currency-boom-bust-cycle)," _The New Republic_ (February 24, 2015)
-  * Timothy B. Lee, "[Ethereum, explained: why Bitcoin's stranger cousin is now worth $1 billion](http://www.vox.com/2016/5/24/11718436/ethereum-the-dao-bitcoin)," _Vox_ (May 24, 2016)
-  * Meghan, "[Bitcoin Doesn't Need Women](http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/bitcoin-doesnt-need-women/)," _Bitcoin Not Bombs_ (January 8, 2014)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 9
+### Leverage (10/28)
-### All the world's a game
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Startup Funding](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/startup-funding/)"
+* Kim-Mai Cutler, "[The Unicorn Hunters](https://logicmag.io/04-the-unicorn-hunters/)," _Logic_ no. 4 (2018)
+* Pierre Bourdieu, "[The Forms of Capital](https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/bourdieu-forms-capital.htm)," in _Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education_, ed. J. Richardson (New York, Greenwood)
-  * Jane McGonigal, "[Gaming Can Make a Better World](http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world)," TEDTalk (2010)
+### Speech acts (11/4)
-  * Ian Bogost, "[Gamification Is Bullshit](http://bogost.com/writing/blog/gamification_is_bullshit/)" (August 8, 2011)
-  * Sam Anderson, "[Just One More Game ...](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html?pagewanted=all)," _The New York Times Magazine_ (April 4, 2012)
-  * Greg Costikyan, "[I Have No Words & I Must Design](http://www.costik.com/nowords.html)," _Interactive Fantasy_ 2 (1994)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 10
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Pitching Ideas](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/pitching-ideas/)"
+* Kira Hall, "[Performativity](https://www.jstor.org/stable/43102461)," _Journal of Linguistic Anthropology_ 9, no. 1/2 (1999)
+* Judith Butler, "[Performative Agency](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17530350.2010.494117)," _Journal of Cultural Economy_ 3, no. 2 (2010)
-### Distributed sovereignty
+### Circulation (11/11)
-  * John Perry Barlow, "[A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace](https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence)" (February 8, 1996)
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Marketing Your Venture to Audiences](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/marketing-your-venture-to-audiences/)"
-  * Giorgio Agamben, "[A Brief History of the State of Exception](https://libcom.org/library/a-brief-history-of-the-state-of-exception-giorgio-agamben)," from _State of Exception_, trans. Kevin Attell (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
+* Jodi Dean, "[Communicative Capitalism: Circulation and the Foreclosure of Politics](http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/1/1/51.full)," _Cultural Politics_ 1, no. 1 (2005)
-  * John Cheney-Lippold, "[A New Algorithmic Identity: Soft Biopolitics and the Modulation of Control](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0263276411424420)," _Theory, Culture & Society_ 28, no. 6 (2011)
+* World Wide Web Consortium, "[Accessibility Principles](https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-principles/)" and "[Stories of Web Users](https://www.w3.org/WAI/people-use-web/user-stories/)"
-  * Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret E. Roberts, "[How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument](https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/psr_1700014_r.pdf)," _American Political Science Review_ (2017)
-  * Dave Karpf, "[Will the Real Psychometric Targeters Please Stand Up?](https://civichall.org/civicist/will-the-real-psychometric-targeters-please-stand-up/)," _Civicist_ (February 1, 2017)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 11
+### Impermanence (11/18)
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Product Management](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/product-management/)"
+* Gina Neff and David Stark, "[Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era](http://www.researchgate.net/publication/242439654_Responsive_Organization_in_the_internet_Era)," in Philip E.N. Howard and Steve Jones, eds., _Society Online: The Internet in Context_ (Sage, 2003)
+* Jo Freeman, "[The Tyranny of Structurelessness](https://www.jstor.org/stable/41035187)," _Berkeley Journal of Sociology_ 17 (1972)
-### Victims and vigilantes
+### Adventures (12/2)
-  * danah boyd and Eszter Hargittai, "[Connected and concerned: Variation in parents' online safety concerns](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1944-2866.POI332/full)," _Policy & Internet_ (September 2013)
+* Ferrier and Mays: "[Entrepreneurship Abroad: Cultural and International Perspectives and Challenges](https://press.rebus.community/media-innovation-and-entrepreneurship/part/entrepreneurship-abroad/)"
-  * Gabriella Coleman, "[Our Weirdness Is Free](https://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/issues/15/contents/our_weirdness_is_free)," _Triple Canopy_ 15 (December 1, 2011)
+* Mirca Madianou, "[Technocolonialism: Digital Innovation and Data Practices in the Humanitarian Response to Refugee Crises](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305119863146)," _Social Media and Society_ 5, no. 3 (2019)
-  * J. Nathan Matias, "[A toxic web: what the Victorians can teach us about online abuse](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/18/a-toxic-web-what-the-victorians-can-teach-us-about-online-abuse)," _The Guardian_ (April 18, 2016)
+* Alan Mills, Nanjira Sambuli, Joana Varon, and Renata Avila, "[Digital Colonialism: A Global Overview](https://re-publica.com/en/session/digital-colonialism-global-overview)," re:publica, Berlin (May 2, 2015)
-  * Coraline Ada Ehmke, "[Antisocial Coding: My Year at GitHub](http://where.coraline.codes/blog/my-year-at-github/)" (July 5, 2017)
-  * Mark Zuckerberg, "[Building Global Community](https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-community/10154544292806634)" (February 16, 2017)
+### Celebration (12/9)
-_Platform Revolution_: chapter 12
+Whitepaper presentation and discussion
-### Wasting time online
+## Further resources
-  * Katy Waldman, "[Frontiers of the Stuplime: Sitting in on UPenn's controversial seminar in 'Wasting Time on the Internet](http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2015/04/kenneth_goldsmith_and_penn_s_wasting_time_on_the_internet_course.single.html),'" _Slate_ (April 27, 2015)
+  * [Ethical OS](https://ethicalos.org/)
-  * Geert Lovink, "[The Principle of Notworking](http://www.hva.nl/content/publicaties/lectorale-redes/2005/geert-lovink.html)," _Concepts in Critical Internet Culture_ (February 24, 2005)
+  * [Platform Design Toolkit](https://platformdesigntoolkit.com/)
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