Submission Schedule: Week 2
Friday, Midnight (at the latest):
Post Finding with commentary.
This week find examples of User Control (as in Model-View-Controller). Look for things that let you control the View (the Presentation) and/or Model (the Data) of the site. Find Customization and/or User Generated Content. This may certainly include online applications.
Where to post (as "reply"): FINDINGS.1 = "User Control"
A starting point may be: Web 2.0: Technology overview - Wikipedia
Sunday, Midnight (at the latest):
Post Commment on someone else's Finding ("reply" to a "reply").
Every week:
Be thinking about who your Community of Discourse will be and how you will go about your Self-Improvement (be ready to discuss).
Readings
Handout:
Manuel Castells, "The Culture of Real Virtuality: The Integration of Electronic Communication, the End of the Mass Audience, and the Rise of Interactive Networks"
Chapter 5 of The Rise of the Network Society
Volume 1 of The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
pgs 355-406, (second edition 2000)
see the book online at google books
related reading, not required
The Rise of Mass Self-CommunicationPosted in Manuel Castell's World of Communication on May 31st, 2007.
By Manuel Castells.
http://www.mediacoolhunting.com/archives/the-rise-of-mass-self-communication
Communication, Power and Counter-power in the Network Society
in International Journal of Communication 1 (2007), 238-266
MANUEL CASTELLS,
Annenberg School for Communication,
USC
http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/view/46/35