Unit 1: Intro to New Media
Week 1: Welcome
Tuesday, February 2: Introduction
Welcome to Principles of New Media.
–> By Wednesday, February 3, 8pm: Introduction Post
Thursday, February 4: What is “New Media”?
READ: Linda Friedman, Hershey Freidman. “The New Media Technologies: Overview and Reseach Framework” (2008)
READ: Lev Manovich. “What is New Media?: Eight Propositions” from New Media from Borges to HTML in the New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Eds). The MIT Press. (2002)
–> By Saturday, February 6, 8pm: What is New Media? Post
Week 2: History
Tuesday, February 9: No Class
CUNY Friday
Thursday, February 11: History of New Media
–> By Wednesday, February 10, 8pm: History of New Media Post
READ: Manuel Castells. “Chapter 1: The Information Technology Revolution” in The Network Society. Blackwell: Masschusetts. (1996)
READ: Roy Rosenzweig. “Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet” American Historical Review (December, 1998)
–> By Saturday, February 13, 8pm: Comment on two other posts
Week 3: Theory and Practice
February 16: Theories of New Media
READ: Steve Jones. “Chapter 1: Eversion” in The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. Routledge. (2013)
OPTIONAL READ: Manuel Castells. “Prologue: The net and the self” in The Network Society. Blackwell: Masschusetts. (1996)
February 18: Practice of New Media
READ: Tim O’Reilly. “What is Web 2.0?” in The Social Media Reader, Mandiberg, M. (Eds). New York: New York University Press. Creative Commons, BY SA NC. (2012)
OPTIONAL READ: Lev Manovich. “Software Takes Command” CC: BY-NC-ND 3.0 (2008)
–> By Saturday, February 20, 8pm: Web 2.0 Examples Post
Unit 2: Exploring the 5 Cs
Week 4: Communication
February 23: Email
READ: “Email is Still the Best Thing on the Internet” by Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic (August 14, 2014)
LISTEN: “Is it Evil? Email”: Codebreaker Podcast, Episode 1 (34 Mins)
READ: “The Triumph of Email” by Adrienne Lafrance in The Atlantic, (January 16, 2016)
February 25: Blogs & WordPress
Before Class FIND ANSWER: What is the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org?
WORKSHOP: Meet in Computer Lab 12-120 during class time
Week 5: Community
March 1: Social Media
READ: A Teenager’s View on Social Media
READ: A reaction to above – An Old Fogey’s Analysis of a Teenager’s View on Social Media
OPTIONAL (short) READ: Social Media as Community from New York Times
March 3: Effects of Social Media: Good or Bad?
READ: The Facebook Effect on the News by Derek Thompson from The Atlantic
READ: Social Media helps Black Lives Matter Activists Fight the Power
READ: Unfollow: Conversion via Twitter from The New Yorker
Other articles:
Hashtags and Human Rights: Activism in the Age of Twitter
Week 6: Collaboration and Creativity
March 8: Wikipedia, User Generated Content, & P2P File Sharing
READ: Hyde, et al. What is Collaboration Anyway? in The Social Media Reader, Mandiberg, M. (Eds). New York: New York University Press. Creative Commons, BY SA NC. (2012)
WATCH: Downloaded (movie)
March 10: Current Events + Reading Summary
Week 7: Convergence
March 15: Open source, Intellectual property, and Creative Commons
READ: Lawrence Lessig. Remix: How Creativity is being Strangled by the Law. in The Social Media Reader, Mandiberg, M. (Eds). New York: New York University Press. Creative Commons, BY SA NC. (2012)
March 17: Technology and Consumption
READ: Michael Mandiberg. “Giving Things Away is Hard Work” in The Social Media Reader, Mandiberg, M. (Eds). New York: New York University Press. Creative Commons, BY SA NC. (2012)
READ: Zukin, Lindeman, Hurson. “The omnivore’s neighborhood?: Online restaurant reviews, race, and gentrification.” Journal of Consumer Culture. (2015)
By Friday March 18th: Provide Peer Feedback on Reading Summaries
Unit 3: New Media Architecture
Week 8: Architecture and Big Data
March 22: Internet Architecture
READ: Tim Berners-Lee. “Information Management: A Proposal.” CERN (1989)
READ: Chris Anderson. “The Long Tail” Wired (2004)
March 24: Algorithms and Big Data
READ: How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did
COMPLETE: Exploring New Media Blog Post
Week 9: Code & Frameworks
March 29: Workshop: Web Frameworks, Github Coding Languages: HTML, CSS, PHP
MEET: Room NVC 12-120
BY Wednesday March 30th COMPLETE : Codecademy HTML + CSS Certificate
March 31: Workshop: Applying your knowledge to B@B
MEET: Room NVC 12-120
Week 10: Midterm
April 5: Mid Term
MIDTERM OUTLINE DUE
April 7: Identifying New Media IRL
Week 11:Economics of New Media
April 12: Corporations, Startups, & Unicorns
READ: The Rise and Fall of the Unicorn from The Economist
READ: What is a startup? in Forbes by N. Robehmed
April 14: Technology and Democracy
READ: The Party Crashers by Jill Lepore from The New Yorker
WATCH: Anil Dash on the Web We Lost (If nothing else, be sure to look at the summary bullet points below the lecture)
OPTIONAL READ: Rebuilding the Web We Lost
Unit 4: The Influence of New Media
Week 12: Technology, Freedom, and Democracy
April 19: Reading Summary Discussion
DUE: Reading Summary 2
April 21: Little Brother Discussion
READ: Little Brother: Intro & Chapters 1 by Cory Doctorow
Week 13: Spring Break
April 25 & 27: Read Little Brother (up to Chapter 12)
By Monday May 2nd: Little Brother Response Post
Week 14: Tech + Experience
May 3: Little Brother Discussion; Encryption & Hacking
May 5: Tech, Knowledge, and Education
READ: Identity, Power, and Education’s Algorithms
WATCH: THIS will Revolutionize Education
Week 15: Futurism
May 10: Ethics, Futurism, and Moore’s Law
WATCH: Ray Kurzweil on Accelerating Technology OR Does AI need to be controlled?
READ: 5 amazing predictions by futurist Ray Kurzweil that came true
READ: What Is The Singularity And Will You Live To See It?
OPTIONAL:
May 12: Final Blogs@Baruch Workshop
Meet in room 12-120
Week 16: Wrap Up
May 17: What’s Next? Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Bitcoin, etc.
DUE: Reading Summary 3: The Future of Technology and New Media
FINAL Paper due Thursday 5/26 by 11:59 pm
