Class Schedule

• Shift Happens

• Tonnies, 1957 [1887], Community and Society
• Lange, 2007, What Defines a Community?

• Anderson, Imagined Communities, chs. 1-4

• Anderson, Imagined Communities, chs. 5, 9-11

• Habermas, 1974, "The Public Sphere"
• Fraser, 2007, Transnationalizing the Public Sphere: On the Legitimacy and Efficacy of Public Opinion in a Post-Westphalian World

• Shannon, 1948, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication." Read the Introduction, then skim the rest. The point is not to understand the math, but to grasp some of the concepts described early on, in particular those expressed in the initial diagram.
• Wiener, 1950, "Organization is the Message"
• Bateson, 1971, "The Cybernetics of Self"

• Baran, 1964, "On Distributed Computer Networks" As with the Shannon piece, the point is not to understand the math but to grasp some of the language and the broader concepts, which will be discussed in class.
• Raus, 2000, Computer Networks, Selections
• Bilgil, 2009, A History of the Internet
• Chvany, 1972, Computer Networks: The Heralds of Resource Sharing

• Licklider, 1968, "The Computer as a Communication Device
• Zuckerman, 2008, "The Evolution of Digital Communities"
• Rheingold, The Virtual Community, Chs. 3 and 4.

• Rheingold, The Virtual Community, Chs. 1 and 2.
• In-class video: WELL Party 1989

• Adams, 1990, Hyperland (video)
• Berners-Lee, 1989, "Information Management: A Proposal"
• In-class videos: Hyperland -- Ted Nelson and Guernica clips

• Raymond, 1997, "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
• Coleman, 2004, "The Political Agnosticism of Free and Open Source Software"

• Anderson, 2004, "The Long Tail"
• Page, 1999, "The PageRank Citation Ranking: Bringing Order to the Web"
• Albert et al, 1999, "Internet Diameter of the World-Wide Web"

• Neslon, 1996, "Maya Hackers"
• Froehling, 1997, "The Cyberspace 'War of Ink and Internet' in Chiapas, Mexico"

• Anderson, 1995, "'Cybarites', Knowledge Workers and New Creoles on the Superhighway"
• Anderson, 2000, "Producers and Middle East Internet Technology"
• Anderson, 2003, "New Media, New Publics Reconfiguring the Public Sphere"

• Bernal, 2004, "Eritrea Goes Global: Reflections on Nationalism"
• Bernal, 2005, "Eritrea On-line"

• Whitaker, 2004, "Tamilnet.com: Some Reflections on Popular Anthropology, Nationalism, and the Internet"
• Vidanage, 2004, "Cyber Cafes in Sri Lanka: Tamil Virtual Communities"

• Doostdar, 2004, "'The Vulgar Spirit of Blogging': On Language, Culture, and Power in Persian Weblogestan"
• Alexanian, 2006, "Publicly Intimate Online"

• Where is Raed? (Salam Pax's blog)
• Pax, 2004, The Baghdad Blogger. This a published selection of contents from the blog above.
• The Guardian, 2003, "I became the profane, pervert Arab Blogger"
• The Telegraph, 2011, "'A Gay Girl in Damascus': how the hoax unfolded"
• The Telegraph, 2011, "'A Gay Girl in Damascus': extracts from US man's hoax blog"

• Spend class time writing your thesis

• Wesch, 2008, "An Anthropoligical Introduction to YouTube"
• Wesch, 2007, "Introducing Our YouTube Ethnography Project"

In Class videos:

1. Long Tail -> Short Head
   1. Crank That
   2. Original Orange
   3. Cheez-Its
2. Brolsma
   1. Wesch on Brolsma (watch to 5:53)
   2. Original Brolsma
   3. Origninal Moldovian Pop Song
   4. American Idle Parody
3. Collective Action
   1. Charlie
   2. Free Hugs
   3. MadV
   4. How To Start a Movement
4. Cultural Exposure
   1. Noodle Wars
   2. Mother of All Funk Chords
   3. Remix Culture
5. Happy
   1. Happy Kiev
   2. UN Foundation
   3. Intternational Day of Happiness
   4. 24 Hours of Happiness

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