Date

Topic

Reading

25.10.

Preliminaries

Introduction to Media Studies

Part I: Theoretical Reading and Discussion

8.11.

Double Session

Introducing the Wiki

Media Studies

Analyzing Media

McLuhan: The Medium is the Message

22.11.

New Media Studies

Lev Manovich: New Media from Borges to HTML

Martin Lister: New Media and New Technologies

29.11.

Social Software/

Analyzing Media

danah boyd: The Significance of Social Software

danah boyd: None of this is real

6.12.

Identity

Jenny Sundén:Material Virtualities

13.12.

Politics and the Web

Mark Poster: Cyberdemocracy and the Public Sphere

20.12.

 Richard Davis: The Web of Politics

10.1.       

Major Candidates Websites

PEW/ Election Online

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Politics_2006.pdf

17.1.

Candidates Social Software (MySpace)

24.1.

Major News Blogs concerned with the Campaign (not by Candidates)

Adamic/ Glance:

The Political Blogosphere and the 2004 Presidential Election

31.1.

Major Newspapers Online

James Curran:

Global Journalism

7.2..

Independent Media

Jakob Nielsen:

How to Write for the Web

14.2.

Final Session