[Air-L] Thoughts on "New Media Culture" class?

[natalya godbold]

These might be useful
boyd, d. (2010). Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity. SXSW. Austin, Texas.
boyd, d. (2009). The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online. Personal
Democracy Forum (PDF). New York, NY.

from
http://www.danah.org/papers/


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011 at reagle.org>wrote:

>
> Next semester I will be teaching an undergraduate course on "New Media
> Culture." While not necessary -- I can design the course as I wish -- I
> intend to be rather literal: focusing on the cultures of new media
> communities. This prompts three questions on which I welcome thoughts.
>
> 1. I still feel obliged to introduce new media in a historical and
> theoretical frame. ("New media" has been a topic of study longer than most
> students have lived.) That is, a concise introduction to the key periods,
> concepts, and figures. For example, in terms of periods, one can see the
> issue of hyper-textuality and narrative in the early 90s, questions of
> community and identity in the mid-90s, and more recently we have "social
> media." (Perhaps a small reference work (dictionary/encyclopedia) would be
> handy.)
> 2. What is an appropriate lens for exploring and comparing new media
> cultures? For example, values, identity (including anonymity), power,
> gender/race, boundaries, pro-sociology, language/jargon, and relation to
> other cultures (including the mainstream). In a related course, we
> encountered all these issues, but I was thinking it would be nice to have
> something up front.
> 3. What are some good cases and readings on new media cultures -- again
> focussing on the cultural aspects? (For example, the Well (historic),
> Anonymous, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.).
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-- 
Natalya Godbold
PhD Candidate (Human Information Behaviour / Health Communication)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney





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