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Instructors:

• Thom Gillespie, room 346 Radio/TV, 812-855-3254 thom@indiana.edu Office hours: W 3-4 drop-in, 4-5 always by appointment
• Dan Wolfe, Tues: 2-3 and Thurs: 3-4 in Radio/TV 240F dwolfe@indiana.edu
• Kris Kurtis, kkurtis@indiana.edu

This class is about what it means to live in the information age, basically in the 21st century. What does it mean to be literally wired from way before sunrise to way after sunset, day after day, year after year; tethered to news, radio, TV, cd/dvd, the net, email, cell phones, consoles, IM, Bluetooth, virtual worlds, etc. How much of our lives is un-mediated? Simple walks in the woods, alone with just our selves? What does it mean to not have access information and media? What is and is not information? What does it mean to 'know' in the age of information?

Marshall McLuhan supposedly said: I don't know who discovered water but it wasn't fish. What McLuhan meant was that what surrounds us and defines us is often invisible, transparent but critical. This class is about examining the bowl we all swim in and thinking about what it means.

Evaluation:

Blogs: 20%

You are required to either create your own blog site or acquire a commercial blog site at www.blogger.com and post daily about your living in the information age. Sites will be evaluated on the quality of the postings: ok, good, really good. No postings, no credit.

In-class presentation: 10%

Teams of 5 will present a presentation of some aspect of living in the information age during class time. Presentations will run at least 20 minutes including discussion.

Presentations will be evaluated by the entire class on quality of presentation: substance and style: 50% 25% by Thom on the same qualities. 25% by Dan and Kris on the same qualifications.

Quizzes: 20%

Will be constant throughout the term. Some will be announced. Many will not.

Discussions: 30%

Discussions for the most part will be revolve around idea generation for project proposal, research and preparation for in-class presentation on living in the information age.

Final exam essays: 20%

Final exam will be all essay on all aspects of this class Living in the Information Age: readings, viewing, visitors, class presentations.

Resources:

• Living in the Information Age, a new media reader, 2nd edition by editor Eric Bucy
• Articles posted to our website: www.mime.indiana.edu/t101

Schedule: this document will be added to constantly so check the website and oncourse always!!

Week 1 Introductions and Understanding media

Download the Medium is the message as a Word document
Raw zipped images of The Medium is the Message

Week 2 The Conduit Metaphor, Prototype Theory and Language

Tuesday quiz, due Monday by 5pm

Concepts We Live By
Bring a 1 page typed research proposal to your discussion section meeting on Friday.

Week 3, 1-23 - > 1/27 The Communications Revolution (reader)

Quiz

• RFID in the Wikipedia
• None-O-Your.biz
• NEW RFID Blocking Wallet
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Panopticon.jpg

For Thursday be prepared to discuss and compare the readings for the week: Death of Distance, Beniger and particularly Rushkoff

Living in the Info Age this week

• After Subpoenas, Internet Searches Give Some Pause
• A Generation Serves Notice: It's a Moving Target
• The New Security: Cameras That Never Forget Your Face
• A Growing Web of Watchers Builds a Surveillance Society

Week 4 New Media Theory (reader)

Reading guide for Thursday, pay attention to: mediamorphosis, 30 year rule, technomyopia, FM, convergence, internet intoxication, ,Zannah, sociality, remediation, immediacy, hypermediacy, replacement, collage, uses & gratification, www & control, anarchy.

History of Communication
Douglas Engelbart
$100 laptop
Xerox Alto

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Living in the Info Age this week

• US plans to 'fight the net' revealed
• Informations Operations Roadmap

Week 5 Convergence (reader)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_FAQ
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contributing_to_Wikipedia#Create_new_articles
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Your_first_article
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_bad_article_ideas
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_really%2C_really%2C_really_stupid_article_ideas_that_you_really%2C_really%2C_really_should_not_create

For Thursday from chapter 3 of our book pay particular attention to: convergence; digitization; information flow as in the Conduit metaphor; cookies; viral marketing; peer-to-peer; the 'Daily Me'; oligopolies; hyperlinks and storytelling; 'the War Inside Sony' & why; OpenMG; digital rights management; the '30'; the vcr in 1975; the fundamental premise of TV broadcasting; MyTv; Tivo; MythTV; invisible effects; will digital cinema replace fil, why & why not.

More wiki

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial_%28Editing%29/sandbox
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_games
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Once_upon_a_time...
• http://htmldog.com/
• http://htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/
• http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Bloomington

Convergence and Concentration

• http://graphics.stanford.edu/~bjohanso/cs448/
• http://www.viktoria.se/nulden/Publ/PDF/MobMedia.pdf
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
• http://www.rthk.org.hk/mediadigest/20030415_76_74280.html
• http://www.wan-press.org/rubrique116.html

Week 6 Media Concentration (reader)

Reading guide for Thursday, be able to discuss in detail: McChesney's concept of new global media, compare McChesney's new global media with Compaine's view of global media. How does Clear Channel program America? Why? Is there a problem with media ownership from your point of view and what should be done or not done to fix it.

• http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml
• http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/clearchannel.asp
• http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml
• http://www.corporations.org/media/
• http://www.thenation.com/special/bigten.html
• http://www.nowfoundation.org/issues/communications/tv/mediacontrol.html
• http://www.freepress.net/content/ownership
• http://www.cjr.org/issues/2004/2/hickey-tv.asp
• http://www.cjr.org/issues/2003/6/moyers.asp

Week 7 At the interface: New Intimacies, New Cultures (reader) Feb 21, 23

• Marine Doom,
• The relationship between USC and the Army
• Differential Analyzer,
• Hutchinson & Thompson
• Date Crunching
• defense conversion-reinsertion
• security through obscurity
• the collapse of inconvenience
• how you remove information from Google

Week 8 Media Saturation and speed of life (reader) Feb 28, Mar 2

For Thursday bring in your version of a quiz covering the readings. Bring 2 copies. At the top include the creators name, yours, and on the next line space for the person taking the quiz. Style points will be given for an 'interesting' quiz which covers the readings.

Week 9 Networking (reader) Mar 7, 9

Week 9 Spring break Mar 14, 16

Start this assignment during spring break. It is not difficult but it will take about 4-5 weeks for you to get the information you need to complete this assignment.

Go to this page and fill out a freedom of information request on yourself: http://www.fcc.gov/foia/ Most likely you will not have a file but the point isn't to see or even to find a file on you but to understand the process of requesting one. If you have a file you will not be handing in your file to me or anyone else in this class.

Go to this page and request your personal data file: http://www.choicepoint.com/factact.html. This is ChoicePoint and they are totally private, heavily used by the government to collect information the government is not allowed to collect, collate or analyze. If you have a credit card in your name they will have a file on you and maybe all sorts of information you don't even know about yourself. Again, you are not handing in this information to me or anyone in the class. This assignment is about know who knows what about you. Might not be important at this moment but may become very important as you go through life. This is truly about living in the information age

Week 10 Questioning technology (reader) Mar 21, 23

Week 11 Questioning technology (reader) Mar 21, 23

Start this assignment during spring break. It is not difficult but it will take about 4-5 weeks for you to get the information you need to complete this assignment.

Go to this page and fill out a freedom of information request on yourself: http://www.fcc.gov/foia/ Most likely you will not have a file but the point isn't to see or even to find a file on you but to understand the process of requesting one. If you have a file you will not be handing in your file to me or anyone else in this class.

Go to this page and request your personal data file: http://www.choicepoint.com/factact.html. This is ChoicePoint and they are totally private, heavily used by the government to collect information the government is not allowed to collect, collate or analyze. If you have a credit card in your name they will have a file on you and maybe all sorts of information you don't even know about yourself. Again, you are not handing in this information to me or anyone in the class. This assignment is about know who knows what about you. Might not be important at this moment but may become very important as you go through life. This is truly about living in the information age

Attach the top part of both reports to a 1-2 page report on personal data and you both now and in the future.

Quiz for Thursday, pay particular attention to: 'internet addiction,' 'The Rimm study,' CDA, 'uses and gratification model,' 'How the internet is different than real life,' deindividuation, 'effects of anonymity,' 'social anxiety,' PowerPoint, Bob Gaskins, Auto-content, Cathleen Belleville, the 'B' button, how PowerPoint is like the Conduit metaphor ( not in chapter 8 ), Y2K, and design flaws.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gettysburgaddress.htm

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm

http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/making.html

http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/eeei/press/EEEI_CNN.php

http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/eeei/press/EEEI_Toronto_star.php

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/30/byrne.powerpoint.ap/

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2005/03/08_byrne.shtml

http://www.davidbyrne.com/art/eeei/index.php

Week 12 Electronic Democracy (reader) Mar 28, 30

3/28
Bob Knight Fan Club
Team Juno
We Will Sell Your A$$

3/30
The Sports Center
The Drunkest Group
The Nerds

Week 13 The Digital Divide (reader) Apr 4, 6

4/4
Mobile TV
Bob Dylan
Little Labowski's Urban Achievers

4/6
The Sex Offenders
Olmac
The Cave

MULTIVISIONS

Week 14 Copyright & Ownership (reader) Apr 11, 13

4/11
Burbank
Power Rangers
The Breakfast Club

4/13
Business
A-Team
Scooby Doo

Week 15 Privacy and Transparency (reader) Apr 18, 20

4/18
Hogan's Heros

Week 16 Apr 25, 27

Clues to question #5 of the final.

Final Exam 7:15-9:15 p.m., Thurs., May 4

Final Exam 7:15-9:15 p.m., Thurs., May 4

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