Discussion Group: Findings
This week find examples of Social Networks. These may or may not be related to you Discourse Community. Discuss at your discretion. Some questions you might answer: does the site have any special features of note? how does the site extend or compliment offline interactions of participants? ...
By Friday, Midnight: Post your findings here (as "reply"): Findings #2= Social Networks
By Sunday, Midnight: Post Commment on someone else's Finding ("reply" to a "reply").
Discussion Group: Readings
By Friday, Midnight: Post response to Castells.
Post (as "reply") to this topic: Readings #2 = "The Culture of Real Virtuality"
By Sunday, Midnight: Post Commment on someone else's repsonse ("reply" to a "reply").
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
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).