Date |
Topic |
Readings |
| 01/17 | Introduction to Blogging | NONE |
| 01/23 to 01/25 | Blogging as Practice: Definition, Features, and Forms | 01/23: We’ve Got Blog: Introduction (ix to xiii); Weblogs: A History and Perspective (7-16); Anatomy of a Weblog (25-27); More About Weblogs (28-33). 01/25: We’ve Got Blog: Advice Section (133-157) Benchmark: Students create their own blogs in class on 01/25. Two blog postings due by 01/30 |
| 01/30 to 02/01 | Blogging and Journalism: Dynamics of a Complex Relationship | 01/30: We’ve Got Blog: The Kaycee Nicole (Swensen) FAQ (89-98); Blogging as a Form of Journalism (163-171) 02/01: We’ve Got Blog: Weblogs: A New Source of News (171-182); We the Media: Introduction ix-xviii); Jay Rosen: Bloggers vs Journalists is Over Benchmark Two blog postings due by 02/06 |
| 02/06 to 02/08 | Technologies of Cooperation: Open Source Development, Web 2.0, RSS, Tagging/Folksonomies, and Wikis | 02/06: Institute for the Future, Technologies of Cooperation [PDF]. 02/08: We the Media: The Read-Write Web (23-43); The Gates Come Down (44-65) Benchmark: Two blog postings due by 02/13 |
| 02/13 to 02/15 | From Wars to Natural Disasters: Blogs as Citizen’s Media for Live Reporting | 02/13: Howard Rheingold, It’s all About the Mobile Internet. Eric Hellweg, Technology Responds to Hurricane Katrina. The Sunday Times, How They Triggered the War on the Web. 02/15: Mark Tapscott, Are you Ready for Citizen Journalism to Stop Big Government. Robert MacMillian, Witnesses to History. Benchmark: Two blog postings due by 02/20 |
| 02/20 to 02/22 | PhotoBlogging and PhotoJournalism: Dynamics, Interrelationships, and Practice | 02/20: Torin Douglas, Shaping the media with mobiles Tim Burt, Mobile phone images present dilemma for TV Mark Glaser, Flickr, Buzznet expand citizens’ role in visual communications. 02/22: Louise Story, Witnesses post instant photos on the Web Mark Glaser, Did London bombings turn citizen journalists into citizen paparazzi? Benchmark: Two blog postings due by 02/27 |
| 02/27 to 02/29 | Podcasting and Radio: Dynamics, Interrelationships, and Practice | 02/27: Terry Heaton, The mainstream media struggles to co-opt citizen’s media Heather Green, Tom Lowry, and Catherine Yang, The new radio revolution 02/29:Dana Gardner, There’s an elephant in the podcast room |
| 03/06 to 03/08 | Vlogging and Television: Dynamics, Interrelationships, and Practice | 03/06: Drazen Pantic, Anybody Can Be TV: How P2P Home Video will Challenge The Network News Heather Green, Let a million videos bloom 03/08: Mark Glaser, ‘Video journalists’: Inevitable revolution or way to cut TV jobs |
| 03/20 to 03/22 | Moblogging, Group Blogging and Newsroom Ecosystems: Dynamics and Practice | 03/20: Lisa Le Fevre, The Three M’s of Moblogs: Mobile Phone Blogging, Real-time Mobility and Mob Media Howard Rheingold, Moblogs Seen as a Crystal Ball for a New Era in Online Journalism 03/22: Andy Carvin, When Mobile Podcasting leads to Mobcasting |
| 03/27 to 03/29 | Blogs as Citizen Journalism: Democracy, public/community journalism, and Altered Media Ecosystems | 03/27: We the Media: From Tom Paine to Blogs and Beyond (1-22); We the Media: Making Our Own News (236-242)
Jay Rosen, PressThink’s Top Ten Ideas for 2004 |
| 04/03 to 04/05 | Citizen Journalism Projects: Examining non-media hyperlocal citizen journalism projects | 04/03: We the Media: The Former Audience Joins the Party (136-157) Allison Romano, Why everybody is a reporter 04/05: Steve Outing, The 11 layers of citizen journalism |
| 04/10 to 04/12 | Mainstream Media and Blogging: Exploring the practice of blogging in newsrooms | 04/10: We the Media: Professional Journalists Join the Conversation (110-135) JD Lassica: Let journalists blog. 04/12: Mark Tosczak, N&R looks to break tradition with Web changes |
| 04/17 to 04/19 | Blogging and Politics: From Political Blogs to local/national politics | 04/17: We the Media: The Consent of the Governed (88-109) Daniel Drezner and Henry Farrell Web of Influence 04/19: Edward Cone, The Marketing of the President. Benchmark: |
| 04/24 to 04/26 | Blogs, Copyright, and Censorship: Threats Facing Open Source Journalism | 04/24: We the Media: Here Comes the Judges (191-208)
Rebecca MacKinnon, China’s Internet: Let a thousand filters bloom 04/26: We the Media: The Empire Strikes Back (209-235) |
| 05/01 to 05/03 | Blogs and Youth Engagement: Can this generation be reengaged through participatory technology? | 05/01: Merrill Brown, Abandoning the News The Story of Beep: Connecting with Young Adults via a Blog-Based Community 05/03: Paper presentations, snacks, class wrapup. Attendance is mandatory. |
