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

[Sareeta Amrute]

I like Tom Bollersdorf's Coming of Age in Second Life for undergrads.  And maybe also Lisa Nakamura's work on Race and Cyberspace.



On Wed, 25 May 2011, natalya godbold wrote:

> 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/
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> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011 at reagle.org>wrote:
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>> 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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Sareeta Amrute
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University of Washington
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New Essay:
"The ‘New’ Non Residents of India: A Short History of the NRI"
in D'Costa, Anthony A New India? Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century. London: Anthem, 2010.
http://www.anthempress.com/index.php/a-new-india.html#p3