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Contents 1 Coursework 1.1 COMM 610: Writing and the scholarly career 1.1.1 Reading 1.1.2 Fidonet 1.2 CSCI 570 Analysis of Algorithms 1.3 SWMS 560 Feminist Theory 1.3.1 Readings 1.3.2 Papers 1.4 COMM 525 Comm Theory I 1.4.1 Cybernetics, Systems Theory 1.4.2 Cultural Studies 1.4.3 Rhetorical criticism 1.4.4 Comparative study of Fidonet, USENET 1.4.5 Hackers, Hobbyists, Tinkerers 1.5 COMM 526 Comm Theory II 1.5.1 Worth of Notice 1.5.2 Para-social interaction 1.5.3 Cultivation theory 1.5.4 Culture as industry and ideology 1.5.5 "Mass" 1.5.6 Third-person effects 1.5.7 Political Economy 1.5.8 Health 1.6 COMM 550 Quantitative research methods in communication 1.6.1 Methods 1.6.2 Models 1.6.3 Project 1.7 COMM 552 Qualitative research methods in communication 1.7.1 Advice, HOWTO 1.7.2 Global ethnography 1.7.3 Trace ethnography 1.7.4 Audience research 1.7.5 Case studies 1.7.6 Materiality 1.7.7 Ethnography 1.7.8 Focus group 1.7.9 vBulletin 1.8 COMM 620: Audio Culture 1.8.1 Queering the Voice 1.8.2 Radio and personal computing 1.8.3 Playback platform analysis 1.8.4 Readings 1.9 Noise and social music 2 Teaching assistant 2.1 COMM 371 Censorship and the Law 2.1.1 Cases 2.1.2 Additional reading 2.1.3 Compton cookout 3 Conferences 4 Lunches 5 Research Groups 5.1 Visiting speakers 5.2 Youth and Civic Engagement 5.2.1 Messageboard Toolkit 5.2.2 Meeting notes 5.2.3 White paper 5.2.3.1 Dude, where's my video? 5.2.4 Readings 5.3 Gender and Virtual Worlds 5.4 Center for Excellence in Teaching 6 Sketches 7 Professional development 8 Reference 9 Old projects archive

Coursework

COMM 610: Writing and the scholarly career

• COMM610/Class notes

Reading

• Galloway, A. R. (2004). Protocol: How control exists after decentralization. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
• Rheingold, H. (1993) The virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. HarperPerennial: New York.
• Rutherford, J. (2005). Cultural students in the corporate university. Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, May, pp. 297-317.

Fidonet

• Interview with Tom Jennings, ROFLcon II, 1 May 2010.

CSCI 570 Analysis of Algorithms

• CSCI570/Class notes
• Prof. Shahriar Shamsian course page
• Kleinberg, J. & Tardos, É. (2005) Algorithm design. Pearson Education.

SWMS 560 Feminist Theory

• SWMS560/Class Notes

Readings

• Alexander, M. J. (2005) Pedagogies of crossing. Durham: Duke.
  • Pedagogies of crossing/presentation notes
• Boellstorff, T. (2010) But do not identify as gay: The lives of "MSM".
• Butler, J. (1993) Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of "sex". New York:Routledge.
• Dean, J. (2009) Democracy and other neoliberal fantasies. Durham: Duke University Press.
• Foucault, M. (1978) The history of sexuality: An introduction, Volume 1. New York: Vintage.
• Haraway, D. J. (2008) When species meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Hartman, S. (2007) Lose your mother: A journey along the atlantic slave route. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
• Mohanty, C. T. (2003) Feminism without borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
• Serano, J. (2007) Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity. Berkeley: Seal Press.
• Stillers, H. (2003) "8. Mama's baby, papa's maybe: An american grammar book." Black, white, and in color: essays on American literature and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Papers

• SWMS560/Midterm, engaging with Alexander's analysis of Bahamian law
• SWMS560/ACTA
• SWMS560/ACTA/Draft
• Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (leaked), January 18, 2010.

COMM 525 Comm Theory I

• COMM525/Socialpsychological, Cybernetics, and Systems Theory
• COMM525/Class Notes

Cybernetics, Systems Theory

• Amhed, Elgazzar, Hegazi An overview of complex adaptive systems
• Capra, Fritjob. The Web of Life
• Johnson, Steven. Emergence: the connected lives of ants, cities, and software

Cultural Studies

• Carey, James W. (1989) Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Unwin Hyman, Boston.
• Kellner, Douglas. (19??) Communications vs. Cultural Studies: Overcoming the Divide. ??

Rhetorical criticism

• Black, E. (1978). Rhetorical criticism: a study in method. Madison:University of Wisconsin Press.
• Klumpp, J. F., and Hollihan, T. A. (1989). Rhetorical criticism as moral action. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 75, 84-87.

Comparative study of Fidonet, USENET

• Galloway, A. R. (2006). "Protocol". Theory Culture Society, 23, pp 317. doi: 10.1177/026327640602300241
• Klumpp, J. F., and Hollihan, T. A. (1989). "Rhetorical criticism as moral action". Quarterly Journal of Speech, 75, 84-87.
• Montfort, N. and Bogost, I. (2009). Platform studies. Cambridge:MIT Press.
• Moore, J.T.S. (2001). Revolution OS. Wonderview Productions, LLC.
• Scott, J. (2004). BBS: The Documentary. Bovine Ignition Systems.
• Fidonet notes
• USENET notes
• COMM525/Comparative study of Fidonet and USENET

Hackers, Hobbyists, Tinkerers

• Richard Butsch
• COMM550/Hobbyists

COMM 526 Comm Theory II

• COMM526/Class notes
• COMM526/Midterm

Worth of Notice

• Worth of notice/Notes from wikipedia
• Worthy of notice/Open questions
• Worthy of notice/Draft
• Worthy of notice/Data
• Baker, N. (2008) "The charms of wikipedia." The New York Review of Books, 55:4, March 20. Retrieved from: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131

Para-social interaction

• Gross, L. (1996) Youre the first person Ive ever told: Letters to a fictional gay teen. In Michael Bronski (Ed.) Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex, pp. 369-386. Richard Kasak Books.
• Gross, L. (2008) "Hollywoods closet still closed for business." Truthdig.com, November 26. Retrieved from: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/page4/20081126_hollywoods_closet_still_closed_for_business
• Horton, D. & Wohl, R. R. (2006) Mass communication and para-social interaction: Observations on intimacy at a distance. Particip@tions, Volume 3, Issue 1, May.

Cultivation theory

• Berger, P. (1967) The sacred canopy: Elements of a sociological theory of religion. New York: Anchor Books.
• Gerbner, G., Gross, L., Morgan, M., Signorielli, N., Shanahan, J. (2000?) "Growing up with television: Cultivation processes." J Bryant and D Zillmann, eds. Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research, 2nd edition [Erlbaum, 2002], pp,43-67.
• Williams, D. (2006) "Virtual cultivation: online worlds, offline perceptions." Journal of Communication, 56:69-87. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00004.x

Culture as industry and ideology

• Peters, J. D. (2003) The subtlety of horkheimer and adorno: Reading "The Culture Industry". In Katz, E., Peters, J. D., Liebes, T., and Orloff, A. (Eds.), Canonic Text in Media Research (pp. 58-73). Cambridge:Polity.
• Horkheimer, M. & Adorno, T. W. (1972) The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception (John Cumming , Trans.) Dialectic of Enlightenment (pp. 120-167). New York: Herder and Herder.
• Raymond Williams, “Base and superstructure in marxist cultural theory,” [1973] in Problems in Materialism and Culture [Verso, 1980], pp. 31-49.
• Stuart Hall, “Encoding/decoding,” Stuart Hall, et. Al., eds. Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies 1972—79 [Hutchinson, 1980], pp. 128-137.
• Michael Gurevitch & Paddy Scannell, “Canonization achieved? Stuart hall’s ‘Encoding/decoding’,” Elihu Katz, et. Al., eds. Canonic Texts in Media Research [Polity, 2003], pp. 231-247.
• Stuart Hall, “The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: The return of the repressed in media studies,” Michael Gurevitch, et. Al., eds. Culture, Society and the Media [Methuen, 1982], pp. 56-90.
• Paul Lazarsfeld, “Administrative and critical communications research,” J D Peters and Peter Simonson, eds. Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919 – 1968 [Rowman and Littlefield, 2004], pp. 166-173.
• Pierre Bourdieu, “Introduction,” Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste [Harvard, 1984], pp. 1-7.

"Mass"

• Lang, K. & Lang, G. E. (2009) "Mass society, mass culture, and mass communication: The meaning of mass." International Journal of Communication, 3, pp. 998-1024.

Third-person effects

• Gunter, A. C. & Storey, J. D. (2003) "The influence of presumed influence." Journal of Communication, June, pp 199-214.

Political Economy

• McChesney, R. W. (1999) Rich media, poor democracy: Communication politics in dubious times. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

Health

• Morgan, S. E., Movius, L., & Cody, M. J. (2009) "The power of narratives: The Effect of Entertainment Television Organ Donation Storylines on the Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors of Donors and Nondonors." Journal of Communication 59, pp. 135–151. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.01408.x
• Murphy, S. T., Frank, L. B., Moran, M. B., & Patnoe-Woodly, P. () "Involved, transported or emotional? Exploring the Determinants of Change in Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior in Entertainment Education." Journal of communication.

COMM 550 Quantitative research methods in communication

• COMM550/Midterm
• COMM550/Class Notes

Methods

• Williams, Frederick. (1992) Reasoning with Statistics: How to read quantitative research.

Models

• Anol Bhattacherjee. (2001) Understanding Information Systems Continuance: An Expectation-Confirmation Model. MIS Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3, Sep., pp. 351-370

Project

• Continuance and Video Hosting Services
• Continuance and Video Hosting Services/IRB
• Continuance and Video Hosting Services/Survey

COMM 552 Qualitative research methods in communication

• COMM552/Class notes

Advice, HOWTO

• Sandvig, C. (2009) How technical is technology research? Acquiring and deploying technical knowledge in social research projects. In Hargittai, E. (Ed.) Research confidential, pp. 141-163. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
• Williams, D. & Xiong, L. (2009) Herding cats online: Real studies of virtual communities. In Hargittai, E. (Ed.) Research Confidential, pp. 122-140. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Global ethnography

• Gille, Z. & Ó Riain, S. (2002) Global ethnography. Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 28, pp. 271-295. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069243

Trace ethnography

• Geiger, R. S. and Ribes, D. (2010) The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM, New York (2010).
• COMM552/Trace ethnography notes
• COMM552/Trace ethnography response paper

Audience research

• Seiter, E. (1999) "Qualitative audience research". Television and New Media Audiences. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hall, S. (1989) Reflections upon the encoding/decoding model: An interview with Stuart Hall. In J. Cruz & J. Lewis (Eds.), Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception (pp. 253-274). Boulder:Westview Press.

Case studies

• Stake, R. E. (2000) Qualitative case studies. In Denzin, N. K. & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research (443-466). Thousand Oaks: Sage.

Materiality

• Foucault, M. (1994) Power::Essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984. James D. Faubion (Ed.) Robert Hurley and Others (Trans.) New York: The New Press.
• Gray, H. (2005) "Is (cyber) space the place?" In Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation, pp. 133-142. Ewing, NJ: University of California Press. Retrieved from: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uscisd/Doc?id=10074093&ppg=142
• Harding, S. () "Introduction: Is there a feminist method?" In Feminism and methodology: Social science issues, pp. 1-14. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
• McHoul, A. & Grace, W. (1997) A foucault primer: Discourse, power and the subject. New York: New York University Press.

Ethnography

• COMM552/Santa Anita field notes
• COMM552/Santa Anita outline

Focus group

• COMM552/Focus group notes

vBulletin

• vBulletin/Outline
• vBulletin/Draft
• vBulletin/Code
• Barry, C. A. (1998). Choosing qualitative data analysis software: Atlast/ti and Nudist compared. Sociological Research Online, 3(3). Retrieved from: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/3/4.html
• Burroughs-Lange, S. G., Lange, J. (1993). Denuded data! Grounded theory using the nudist computer analysis program: In research the challenge to teacher self-efficacy posed by students with learning disabilities in australian education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, Ga, April 12-16.
• Sack, W. (2000) "Conversation map: A content-based usenet newsgroup browse". Proceedings from IUI, New Orleans, pp. 233-240.

COMM 620: Audio Culture

• COMM620/Class Notes

Queering the Voice

• COMM620/Queering the Voice - Notes
• COMM620/Queering the Voice Presentation

Radio and personal computing

• COMM620/Listening In Outline (essay)
• COMM620/Hobbyists (reaction essay to Listening In)

Playback platform analysis

• COMM620/Playback: in search of popular listening practices, 18 dec 05

Readings

• Connor, Steven. (2000) Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. Oxford University Press, NYC.
• Douglas, Susan J. (1999) Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination. New York: Random House.
• Koestenbaum, Wayne. (1993) The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. Poseidon Press, NY.
• Roland Barthes, "The Grain of the Voice," in Image, Music, Text (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), p. 157. Translated by Steven Heath.
• Suisman, D. (2009) Selling sounds: The commercial revolution in american music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Wald, Gayle. (2002) ""I Want It That Way": Teenybopper Music and the Girling of Boy Bands." Genders 35.

Noise and social music

• COMM620/Noise and social music
• COMM620/Noise and social music/Presentation

Teaching assistant

COMM 371 Censorship and the Law

• COMM371/Class notes
• COMM371/Week3
• COMM371/Quick reference

Cases

• BURSTYN v. WILSON, 343 U.S. 495, 1952
• RED LION BROADCASTING CO v FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969)
• MILLER v. CALIFORNIA, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
• MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO v TORNILLO, 418 U.S. 241 (1974)
• HERCEG v. HUSTLER, No. 85-2833, 1987
• MCCOLLUM v. CBS, 202 Cal.App.3d 989, 1988
• SABLE v. FCC, No. 88-515, 1989
• RENO v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)
• US v PLAYBOY, No. 98-1682, 2000

Additional reading

• FCC 08-183 Considering Free Press and Public Knowledge Complaints Regarding Comcast
• Lewis, A. (2007). Freedom for the thought that we hate: A biography of the first amendment. New York: Basic Books.

Compton cookout

• COMM371/Compton cookout

Conferences

• FCX
• DML2010
• ROFLcon II
• VidCon 2010
• Critical code studies 2010

Lunches

• Bailenson, Jeremy. Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality. 19 October 2009
• Fowler, James. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Netowrks and How They Shape Our Lives. 23 November 2009.
• Saltzman, Joe. Image of the Gay Journalist. 16 November 2009.
• Suisman, David. Sound and sense. January 11, 2009.
• Nardi, Bonnie A. Value and Identity: Extrusions of a Video game. 25 January 2010
• Carpini, Michael X. Delli. Talking together: Public deliberation and political participation in america. 1 February 2010.
• McChesney and Nichols, News and democracy, 19 April 2010.

Research Groups

Visiting speakers

• Hundt, Reed. Future of international broadband and practically everything else. April 7, 2010.

Youth and Civic Engagement

Messageboard Toolkit

• Scrape the Web: Strategies for programming websites that don't expect it, Asheesh, PyCon presentation

Meeting notes

• Lori, Racebending, Avatar the last airbender, 17 Sep 09
• Lana, Show and Tell, using social capital to study fandoms, 5 Nov 2009
• Melissa, Invisible Children, 12 November 2009
• Civic/Fall09Debrief, 3 December 2009
• Joshua, Vox Pop Experiments, 12 January 2010
• White paper brainstorm, 19 January 2010
• Fiske, Hartley, 26 Jan 2010
• Skype meeting with Stephen Duncombe, 9 February 2010
• Meeting with Joseph Kahne, 23 February 2010
• Myra Donnelley, Brave New Films, 2 March 2010
• Audiences and publics, 9 March 2010
• Johanna Blakley, Norman Lear Center, 30 March 2010
• Meeting with Sarah Banet-Weiser, 6 April 2010
• Summer planning, 20 April 2010
• Discussion guide, 2 June 2010

White paper

• White paper brainstorm, 27 January 2010
• White paper notes

Dude, where's my video?

• Dude, where's my video?/Outline
• Dude, where's my video?/Notes
• Dude, where's my video?/Draft

Readings

• Weiser-Banet, S. (DRAFT) Branding the post-feminist self: Girls' video production and youtube.
• Weiser-Banet, S. (DRAFT) The writings on the wall: Street art, convergence and the authentic.
• John Fiske, "Introduction," Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
• John Fiske, "Politics," Understanding Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1989)
• Hartley, J. (2007) Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gender and Virtual Worlds

• Conference call, 9 December 2009

Center for Excellence in Teaching

• TA training, 8 January 2010

Sketches

• Thumb saver
• Grey tuesday
• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Second Life
• YouTube Decay
• Auto-tune
• Worthy of notice
• Lil Jon
• Fan music video
• Zoetrope
• Dm compression

Professional development

• Professional development day, 5 February 2010, publishing, teaching

Reference

• Rig
• Git

Old projects archive

• Open Curricula