Recordings

Recordings of class periods are available in this publicly available online folder, or indexed here.

1. August 28, 2012 -- Introduction -- Brainstorming on digital culture: the internet, social media (Facebook, etc.), content sites (like YouTube), commenting systems, virtual reality, changed kinds of communication (tools, types) and their evolving customs, etiquette, video, subcultures and communities (gaming, video, fan-based, trolls, older people, hactivists); convergence (multimedia, business and entertainment, etc.); advertising; user-generated content (self-publishing); new customer service and business models; devices (PC, smartphones, etc.) and accelerated evolution of gadgets; creativity, collaboration, crowdsourcing, changes to music; audiobooks, podcasts, RSS feeds, distance education, live vs. online events, online commerce, face-to-face vs online interaction, music discovery (Pandora); consuming content (via services like Netflix), changes to TV; copyright and intellectual property; Apple; openness, privacy, politics (democratizing potential of the net), restaurants and ordering, lack of established behavioral mores (Facebook stalking...), "too much information"; anonymity, cyber-bullying, authority and regulation, accountability, reputation; online proselyting and religious consequences of the digital age (Mormons, Catholics...); metaphors for the digital age: the frontier, the web, surfing, etc.); youth culture and pushing boundaries or breaking laws; disruptive innovation; self-directed learning and evolving educational resources and models; badges; international communication and translation; Skype; Google Translate; adaptations of literature; video series; government and military; remix culture; auto-tuning; celebrities (famous people on social media; unknowns becoming famous); online dating; the dark web (crime, hacking, pornography, spam, trolling) and legal mechanisms of control, jurisdiction, surveillance, etc.; culture of novelty / consumerism; eReaders and the fate of books in the digital age (literacy, formats, etc.); role of literature in making sense of digital culture; using eBooks and annotating these (as with eBrary)
2. August 30, 2012
1. Michael Wesch, "The Machine is Us/ing Us"; (see playlist of digital culture videos)
2. Decoupling of form and content (as with HTML, XML); repurposing; aggregator; RSS feed; 
3. Network architecture (decentralized network, redundancy, routing around bad nodes)
4. Beta state of online content; "rough consensus and running code"
5. Curation of resources (resources for the course but also example of curation as a concept). How do we organize our understanding of digital culture?
6. Collaboration (core concept for digital culture and main mode of working in the course)
7. The syllabus as a genre (a better instrument for schooling than for learning)
8. Course learning outcomes
1. History and Key Issues of Digital Culture
2. Digital Literacy (consume; create; connect)
3. Self-Directed Learning (including one non-fiction work and one novel)
4. Collaborative Creativity (mainly the semester group project)
9. Iterative learning model (coming from agile development model)
10. A tiered-content model: 1) "teaser content": short, casual, higher frequency (Google+); 2) "trailer content": more developed but still informal content (personal blog); 3) "formal content": more formal, published content (in a recognized formal outlet).
11. Social proof
3. Sept 4, 2012 - Collaborative Creativity
   Eric Whitacre, Virtual Choir -- example of both crowdsourcing and of collaboration; Kompoz.com; Karen Burton, "Mad World" video (singing+kinetic typography collaboration); "release early, release often"; "O Magnum Mysterium" (remix with kinetic typography); Goodreads.com
4. Sept 6, 2012 - 
1. Print vs. Digital Culture 
1. How are books devices for coping with too much information? 
2. What types of texts favor sequential/non-sequential reading? 
3. What are the advantages of reading via print, via computer screen, via mobile device?
4. What are a few ways to bring books into your digital life? (See this video; this blog post)
5. How is it that books are "fossil knowledge" and what are alternatives today?
6. How is that print has been an "epistemology" and do electronic ways of knowing challenge print's ways?
2. Web 2.0 (see also the "Zombie Web" starting at 18:22)
1. What are the main characteristics of Web 2.0?
2. What kinds of valuing mechanisms or currencies are developing online today?
3. An algorithm for digital development (see the Prezi presentation)
1. What is an algorithm, and how is this term relevant to digital culture (beyond its application in computer programming)?
2. How is digital literacy integrated into this workflow for developing content?
3. How are you consciously consuming and filtering your incoming information? How can a feed reader like Google Reader make consuming information more efficient? (See "Using Google Reader to Consume Content Intelligently")
4. What is curation and what digital tools are available to make curation more efficient?
5. What are ways to synthesize and engage sources when in an exploratory phase of content development?
6. What is social proof? What kinds of social proof are best at each stage of developing content?
5. Sept 11, 2012 - Nonfiction books on digital culture; Chris Anderson and "the long tail"; overview presentation on component parts of digital culture; introduction to literary approaches to digital culture; Moby Dick
6. Sept 13, 2012 - Video games, film, and literature and the roots of digital culture. Discussion of readings connecting literature and digital culture.  
7. Sept 18, 2012 
1. Thermodynamics and information theory (2:26-20:39)
2. Cybernetics (20:39-36:21)
3. Social Proof (36:24-1:12:10)
8. Sept 20, 2012  
1. Crowdsourcing
2. Group organization activity
9. Sept 25, 2012  
10. Sept 27, 2012 
11. Oct 2, 2012
12. Oct 4, 2012
13. Oct 9, 2012
14. Oct 11, 2012
15. Oct 16, 2012
16. Oct 18, 2012
17. Oct 23, 2012
18. Oct 25, 2012
19. Oct 30, 2012
20. Nov 1, 2012
21. Nov 6, 2012
22. Nov 8, 2012
23. Nov 13, 2012
24. Nov 15, 2012
25. Nov 27, 2012
26. Nov 29, 2012
27. Dec 4, 2012
28. Dec 6, 2012
29. Dec 13, 2012