Full Schedule
** An updated schedule is located here. **
Schedule : All dates are subject to change and possible revision. If a major rescheduling is necessary, you will be given a schedule addendum. All topics, readings, and assignments are due on the date in the schedule. All assignments due on Fridays must be posted to the blog by the given date at noon. No credit will be given for late assignments.
WEEK 1 • Introduction to the Course
| Jan 20 | |
| Jan 22 | Assignment 1: Register with the Blog |
WEEK 2• SOCIAL NETWORKING I
| Jan 25 | Read: Boyd, Danah. “Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates” by Danah Boyd
Read: Glaser, Mark. “Twitter Founders Thrive on Micro-Blogging Constraints” Read: Wagner, Mitch. “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Talks About Its Business Model” |
| Jan 27 | Read: Boyd, Danah. “Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?” |
| Jan 29 | Assignment 2: Register Twitter Account (link updated)
Assignment 3: Edit “Twitter Accounts” page (link updated) Assignment 4: First Tweet (link updated) |
WEEK 3 • BLOGGING I
| Feb 1 | Read: Sullivan, Andrew. “Why I Blog” |
| Feb 3 | Read: All The News, Chapters 1 and 2 |
| Feb 5 | Assignment 5: “My Home Town” Blog Post |
WEEK 4 • BLOGGING II
| Feb 8 | Read: “Basic Hypertext Markup Language Reference Sheet” |
| Feb 10 | Read: All the News, Chapters 3 and 4 |
| Feb 12 | Assignment 6: “Third Person Autobiography” Blog Post |
WEEK 5 • CONVERGED MEDIA I
| Feb 15 | Read: All the News, Chapters 5 and 6 |
| Feb 17 | Read: Newton-Small, Jay. “Congress’s New Love Affair with Twitter”
Read: Milbank, Dana. “Politicians twitter throughout address to Congress like bored schoolchildren” |
| Feb 19 | Assignment 7: “Changing with the Times” Blog Post |
WEEK 6 • CITIZEN JOURNALISM I
| Feb 22 | Read: All the News, Chapters 7 and 13 |
| Feb 24 | T.B.A. |
| Feb 26 | Assignment 8: We-Town.com Commercial Report |
WEEK 7 • CITIZEN JOURNALISM II
| Mar 1 | Read: All the News, Chapters 14 and 15 |
| Mar 3 | T.B.A. |
| Mar 5 | Assignment 9: We-Town Community Member Spotlight |
WEEK 8 • SPRING BREAK
| Mar 8 | No Class |
| Mar 10 | No Class |
WEEK 9 • SOCIAL NETWORKING II
| Mar 15 | Delicious, StumbleUpon, Digg, etc.
Read: |
| Mar 17 | |
| Mar 19 | Assignment 10: “Spring Break 2010” Blog Post
Assignment 11: Register LinkedIn Account Assignment 12: Edit “LinkedIn Accounts” page |
WEEK 10 • eCOMMERCE and VIRAL MARKETING
| Mar 22 | Read: T.B.A. |
| Mar 24 | Read: T.B.A. |
WEEK 11 • CONVERGED MEDIA II
| Mar 29 | Read: Lessig, Lawrence. “RW, Revived” from REMIX: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy (scroll to chapter four beginning on page 51) |
| Mar 31 | T.B.A. |
| Apr 2 | Assignment 13: “YouTube” Blog Post |
WEEK 12 • PRESENTATIONS
| Apr 5 | No Class |
| Apr 7 | Assignment 14: Viral Marketing Campaign with In-Class Presentation |
WEEK 13 • WIKIS
| Apr 12 | Read: T.B.A. |
| Apr 14 | Read: T.B.A. |
| Apr 16 | Assignment 15: Audio Blog Post |
WEEK 14 • PORTFOLIOS and WEBSITES
| Apr 19 | T.B.A. |
| Apr 21 | No Class (class cancelled) |
WEEK 15 • PORTFOLIOS and WEBSITES
| Apr 26 | Working Day (Steinman Computer Lab available during class time) |
| Apr 28 | Working Day (Steinman Computer Lab available during class time) |
WEEK 16 • PORTFOLIOS and WEBSITES
| May 3 | Working Day (Steinman Computer Lab available during class time) |
| May 5 | Working Day (Steinman Computer Lab available during class time) |
FINALS WEEK
| May 13 | Final Assignments due by 2:30 pm |