Week 5 - February 15 and 17,
2005
Living Online - User Communities
MUDs, chatlines, fan-sitesetc.
Assignments
- For Tuesday:
- Philip N. Howard, “Embedded Media, Who we know, what we know, and Society Online” Society Online. 1-27.
- Marc A. Smith “Invisible Crowds in Cyberspace. Mapping the social structure of the Usenet,” Communities in Cyberspace, 195-219.
- Pierre Lévy, “Collective Intelligence,” RDC, 253-258.
- For Thursday:
- Kirsten Pullen, “I-love-Xena.com Creating Online Fan Communities,” Web Studies, 52-61.
- Avital Ronell, “A Disappearance of Community,” RDC, 287-293.
- Howard Rheingold, “Community Development in the Cybersociety of the Future,” Web.Studies, 170-178.
Remember to post your weekly journal update to the Cyberculture @ Swarthmore community.
Links
Obsessive Fansite List and Critique
Henry Jenkins, "Interactive Audiences?"