t-8.31.10

Introduction

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Defining Cybercultures

• Read Nayar, Chp 1-2 [NMC]
• Read Macek "Defining Cyberculture"
• Read Levy "The Universal without Totality" & "The Social Movement of Cybercultures" [BB]
• Respond to instructor's introductory email

t-9.14.10

Cybercultures & the Individual

• Read Nayar, 3-5 [NMC]
• Read Van Gelder, "The Strange Case of the Electronic Lover" [BB]
• Submit Research Blog Entry #1 on Blogger by the beginning of class

t-9.21.10

Cybercultures & Society

• Read Nayar, 6-7 [NMC]
• Read Lakoff and Johnson "Metaphors We Live By" [BB]
• Read Selfe, "Lest We Think the Revolution is a Revolution" [BB]
• Submit Metaphor Blog Entry on Blogger by the beginning of class

t-9.28.10

Introduction to Digital Writing Research

• Read McKee & DeVoss "Introduction" [DWR]
• Read Banks & Eble "Digital Space, Online Environments, and Human Participant Research" [DWR]
• Read Rickly "Messy Contexts" [DWR]
• Submit Proposal to the instructor as an email attachment (preferably .doc/.docx) by the beginning of class.

t-10.5.10

Postmodern/Feminist Methodologies

• Read Porter & Sullivan [BB]
• Read DePew "Through the Eyes of Reserchers, Rhetors, and Audiences" [DWR]
• Read Romberger "An Ecofeminist Methodology" [DWR]
• Submit Research Blog Entry #2 on Blogger by the beginning of class

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Fall Break–No class

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Research Methods & Research Contexts

• Read Blythe "Coding Digital Texts and Multimedia" [DWR]
• Read Hilligoss & Williams "Composition meets visual communication" [DWR]
• Read Kimme Hea "Riding the Wave" [DWR]
• Read McIntire-Strasburg "Multimedia research" [DWR]
• Read Burnett, et al. "A report from the digital contact zone" [DWR]
• Submit Research Application to the instructor as an email attachment (preferably .doc/.docx) by the beginning of class; bring two hard copy drafts to class for peer review.

t-10.26.10

Cyborgs & iDentities

• Read Haraway "The Cyborg Manifesto" [BB]
• Read Clarke "Cyborgs Unplugged" [BB]
• Read Maranto and Barton "Paradox & promise" [Computers and Composition, 27.1]
• Submit one hard copy and one electonic copy of the Research Application to the instructor (hard for evaluation; electronic for Dr. Gainey) by the beginning of class

t-11.2.10

Demographics & Access

• Read Social Media & Mobile Internet Use... [full report]
• Read Goode "The digital identity divide" [New Media & Society, 12.3]
• Read Salajan, et al. "Student and faculty inter-generational digital divide" [Computers & Education, 55.3]
• Submit Research Blog Entry #3 on Blogger by the beginning of class

t-11.9.10

Online Communities

• Read Cashel "Social media and government"
• Read Rheingold "Introduction"
• Read Silver "Community, Communication, Consumption" [BB]
• Read Bishop "Increasing participation in online communities" [Computers in Human Behavior, 23.4]
• Submit Research Blog Entry #4 on Blogger by the beginning of class
• Note  Today is the last day to drop classes

t-11.16.10

Technology and Discourse

• Read Thompson "Clive Thompson on the New Literacy" [Wired, 17.09]
• Read Baron "'Whatever'" [BB]
• Read Lam "L2 Literacy and the design of the self" [TESOL Quarterly, 34.2]
• Read Stromer-Galley & Martey "Visual spaces, norm governed places" [New Media & Society, 11.6]
• Submit Status Blog Entry on Blogger by the beginning of class

t-11.23.10

Convergence Culture I: Theory

• Read Jenkins "Introduction" [BB]
• Read Keen "Introduction" & "The great seduction" [BB]
• Read Dubisar & Palmeri "Palin/Pathos/Peter Griffin" [Computers and Composition, 27.2]
• Submit Research Blog Entry #5 on Blogger by the beginning of class

t-11.30.10

Convergence Culture II: Fan Fiction

• Read Jenkins "Why Heather can write" [BB]
• Read Cover "Audience inter/active" [New Media & Society, 8.1]
• Read a selection of fan fiction

t-12.7.10

ePoster Session

• Submit ePoster by the beginning of class to the instructor as an email attachment (preferably .ppt/.pptx; using Slideshare or Prezi is also acceptable)
• Submit Research Article to the instructor as an email attachment (preferably .doc/.docx) by the end of the day on Friday, December 10, 2010

t-12.14.10

Finals: No Exam; contact the instructor (kdepew@odu.edu or 757.863.4019) if you have any questions or concerns