This third quarter of class will focus emergent paradigms for social collaboration via online interaction and mobile applications.
March 26th
Review and discuss videos.
Homework:
Upload final video edit to all team members blogs.
Reading
"We Are the Web" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.08/tech.html
Homework:
Write 3-6 paragraphs about your critique of this article. The first half of your response should address what in the article agreed with. The second half of your response would include what you did not agree with, and why.
March 29th
+ Speaker: Kenyatta Cheese
Trends in online interaction. De-centralized media explained. Group-centered design.
Homework:
Online Interaction assignment assigned
Reading [6 hours of reading] :
Clay Shirky - Communities, Audiences, and Scale.
http://shirky.com/writings/community_scale.html
Rocketboom on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketboom
Watch these episode:
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_mar_28
http://www.rocketboom.com/stories/rb_07_mar_29
Howard Rheingold - Technologies of Cooperation
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf
April 2nd:
+ Speaker: Andrew Baron and Joanne Colan from Rocketboom
Building Audiences. Understanding online culture. The history, present, and future of Rocketboom and video-blogging.
Reading:
Howard Rheingold - Technologies of Cooperation
http://www.rheingold.com/cooperation/Technology_of_cooperation.pdf
Homework:
Pick a concept from your list. Answer some of the following questions:
Describe all the potential users for your applications. Describe why they would interact with your project. Explain, how they would interact with your concept. Explain, why they would continue to interact with your concept. Lastly, describe how our shared culture, or any particular culture(s), could potentially change because of your concept. Use concepts from Technologies of Cooperation if to help you articulate your ideas.
500-1000 words.
April 5th
+ Disucss Technologies of Cooperation
+ 5 Min Presentations of your concept and thougths
+ Final Project introduced and explained
Homework:
Work on Final Project
Reading/Podcast:
Space and Place @ Where 2.0
Mark Hansen - Slogging - Citizen-Initiated Sensing
http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~cocteau/talks/siam.pdf [ It's a PowerPoint presentation. You should be able to flip through this one and get the idea.]
April 9th
+ Speaker: Anthony Townsend talks in class.
Topics include: How "Space and Place" meet the Internet and mobile applications. We discuss mobile applications and location-based applications. Look at trends that occur when mobile technology converges with social networking/web 2.0/and user-created content.
Homework:
Work on articulating your Final
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The mobile discussion:
"I am here? Where are you?"
"I've been here. Where have you been?"
"I've experienced this there. What have you experienced there?
Social mapping of the space, via the net. Social mapping in the form of personal story, journal, photos/video, linkages, and etc....
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April 12th - May 3rd
Work on Finals
May 7th and May 10th
Final Presentations in Critique
May 14th
Last day wrap-up and establish further research.
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