Week 1 - Introduction (Blog: General Technology / Find Good New Blogs)
Tuesday, August 30
ReadingsCourse Overview / Blogging Overview and Walkthrough
Handout Group Assignment 1 (Group Formation)
Thursday, September 1
ReadingsIntroduction to Stylesheets and Dreamweaver tutorial
Week 2 - New Media Communication Models (Blog: New Means of Communication / Cool New Products)
Tuesday, September 6
Week 3 - Observational Methods (Blog: Cool User Studies / Cool New Products)
Tuesday, September 13
Readings Ethnographic Methods
Handout Group Assignment 2 (Documenting
Artifact Usage)
Thursday, September 15
Group Assignment 1 (Group Formation) DUE
Week 4 - Ramifications of Design and Development Decisions (Blog: Good or Bad Design / Policy Decisions)
Tuesday, September 20 :: History, Programming Concepts & Design
*Paul Baran. "The Beginnings of Packet Switching: Some Underlying Concepts" IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2002, pp. 42-48. (Class Handout)
*Lawrence Lessig. The Future of Ideas. The Fate of the Commons in the Connected World. New York: Random House, 2001. Chapters 1, 2, 3 (p. 3 - 48). (Class Handout).
Week 5 - New Media Computation (Blog: DRM / Free Culture Sites)
Tuesday, September 27 :: Computational Media (It's the End of the Web As We Know It)
*Lawrence Lessig. Free Culture : How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. New York: Penguin. Introduction and Part I, "Piracy" (pgs. 1 - 81). Online @: http://free-culture.org/freecontent/
*Websites: Freedom to Tinker, Lessig Blog, EFF: Deep Links, Technology Liberation Front
Week 6 - Designing "New" New Media (Good Design / Bad Design)
Tuesday, October 4 :: Design Concepts
*Edward Tufte. Envisioning Information. Graphics Press, Addison, MA: On Reserve in SILS.
*S. Joy Mountford. Tools and Techniques for Creative Design. In: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley, 1990, p. 17-30. On Reserve in SILS.
*Donald A. Norman. Why Interfaces Don't Work. In: The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley, 1990, p. 209-219. On Reserve in SILS.
*Laurie Vertelney and
Sue Booker. Designing the Whole-Product User Interface. In: The Art
of Human-Computer Interface Design, edited by Brenda Laurel, Addison Wesley:
Reading, Massachusetts, 1990, p. 57-63. On Reserve in SILS.
Handout for Assignment 3 (Artifact Redesign to Enable
New Forms of Programmability)
Handout: Assignment Tips
Thursday, October 6
Project Assignment 2: Observing Artifact Usage Due
Week 7 - Networks (Online Social Networks / Networks at In Practice)
Tuesday, October 11 :: Networks
*Malcolm Gladwell. "Six degrees of Lois Weisberg" New Yorker, 1999.
*Duncan J. Watts. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003, p. 43-68. (Class handout)
Week 8 - Social Networks (Blog: Social Networks)
Tuesday, October 18 :: Social Networks
*Elizabeth Mynatt, Vicki O'Day, Annette Adler, and Mizuko Ito. "Network communities: something old, something new, something borrowed..." Computer Supported Cooperative Work 7:123-156, 1998. ACM Digital Library (if you're on campus, you should be able to download it. Go to "Publisher Site," then in secnd column it says this article is available in full text. Download there.)(if you're not able to, I'll have class handouts)
*Websites: Friendster, Orkut, LinkedIn, FaceBook
Group Assignment 3 (Enabling Programmability) DUE
Handout: Assignment 4 (Enabling
Social Visual Communication)
Week 9 - Cell Phones (Blog: Cool New Cellphones / Gaming with Cell Phones)
Tuesday, October 25 :: Phone Networks
*Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Emerging Information Infrastructure, National Research Council. The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age. National Academies Press. Appendix C: Networks: How the Internet Works - The Internet Compared to the Telephone Network.
Week 10 - More Cell Phones (Blog: Things you can do with a cellphone/ Social Organization with cellphones)
Tuesday, November 1 :: Social Uses of Cell Phones
*Mizuko Ito and Daisuke Okabe. Technosocial Situations: Emergent Structurings of Mobile Email Use. 2003. @ http://www.itofisher.com/PEOPLE/mito/mobileemail.pdf
*Alex S. Taylor and Richard Harper. (2001) "Group Spaces: Age-old practices in the 'new world': a study of gift-giving between teenage mobile phone users." Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. p. 439-446. ACM Digital Library
*Websites: Dodgeball.com, Playtxt, Jambo, Mizuko Ito's Blog
Handout: Group Assignment 5 (Enabling New Forms of Interaction)
Thursday, November 3
Group Assignment 4 (Enabling New Forms of Communication & Organization) DUE
Week 11 - More Cellphones (Blog: Cellphones / social Uses of Cell Phones)
Tuesday, November 8 :: More Social Uses of Cell Phones
Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Araba Sey. The Mobile Communication Society: A cross cultural analysis of available evidence on the social uses of wireless communication technology. A research report prepared for the International Workshop on Wireless Communication Policies and Prospects: A Global Perspective, held at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, October 8th and 9th 2004. Available @ http://annenberg.usc.edu/international_communication/WirelessWorkshop/MCS.pdf
Week 12 - Cameraphones (Blog: Digital Image Management Sites / Cameraphone research)
Tuesday, November 15 :: Cameraphones
*Nancy Van House, Marc Davis, Morgan Ames, Megan Finn, Vijay Viswanathan. "The Uses of Personal Networked Digital Imaging: An Empirical Study of Cameraphone Photos and Sharing" CHI 2005 April 2-7, 2005, Portland, Oregon, USA. ACM Press. @ http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~vanhouse/van_house_chi_short.pdf
*Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, Hector GarciaMolina. "Automatic Organization for Digital Photographs with Geographic Coordinates" JCDL’04, June 7–11, 2004, Tucson, Arizona, USA. ACM Press. @ ACM Digital Library
Risto Sarvas, Erick Herrarte, Anita Wilhelm, Marc Davis. "Metadata Creation System for Mobile Images." MobiSys’04, June 6-9, 2004, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. ACM Press. @ http://fusion.sims.berkeley.edu/GarageCinema/pubs/pdf/pdf_741BB791-C539-448E-94EFB971403B004B.pdf
Thursday, November 17
Group Assignment 5 (Enabling Interaction) DUE
Week 13 - Reputation and Trust Online
Tuesday, November 22 :: Reputation and Trust Online
*Tad Hogg & Lada Adamic. "Enhancing Reputation Mechanisms via Online Social Networks." EC’04, May 17–20, 2004, New York, New York, USA. ACM Press. @ http://www.hpl.hp.com/shl/papers/socrep/socrep.pdf
*danah michele boyd. "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking" CHI 2004, April 24–29, 2004, Vienna, Austria. ACM Press. @ http://www.danah.org/papers/CHI2004Friendster.pdf
*Nicolas Ducheneaut and Robert J. Moore. "The Social Side of Gaming: A Study of Interaction Patterns in a Massively Multiplayer Online Game" CSCW’04, November 6–10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois, USA. ACM Press. @ http://www.parc.com/research/publications/files/5223.pdf
*Steve Harrison and Paul Dourish. "Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems." in: Proceedings of ACM Conference on CSCW. New York: ACM Press, 1996, p. 67-76. @ http://www.ics.uci.edu/~jpd/publications/1996/cscw96-place.pdf
Thursday, November 24
ReadingsNO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
Week 14 - Use & Management of Musical Files (Blog: Music Organization Sites / Cool User Studies)
Tuesday, November 29 :: Digital Music: Use
*Sally Jo Cunningham, J. Stephen Downie & David Bainbridge - "The Pain, The Pain": Modelling Music Information Behavior And The Songs We Hate" Proceedings of the 2005 International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR). London. (Not Yet Available)
*Jin Ha Lee and J. Stephen Downie (2004). "Survey of Music Information Needs, Uses, and Seeking Behaviors: Preliminary Findings." ISMIR 2004.@ http://www.iua.upf.es/mtg/ismir2004/review/CRFILES/paper232-02ba187c740dbd4cdef4084c135798a1.pdf
*Sally Jo Cunningham, Nina Reeves, Matthew Brittland. (2003) "An ethnographic study of music information seeking: implications for the design of a music digital library" Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries: Houston, Texas, ACM Press. ACM Digtial Library.
Week 15 - Synergy! (Blog: Something Important to You)
Tuesday, December 6 :: Music Management
*Amy Voida, Rebecca E. Grinter, Nicolas Ducheneaut, W. Keith Edwards, Mark W. Newman, (2005). "Listening in: practices surrounding iTunes music sharing" Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems. Portland, OR. ACM Press. @ http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~amyvoida/listeningIn-chi05.pdf
*Sally Jo Cunningham , Matt Jones, Steve Jones (2004). "Organizing Digital Music for Use: An examination of personal music collections." ISMIR 2004. @ http://ismir2004.ismir.net/proceedings/p082-page-447-paper221.pdf
*Rob van Gulik, Fabio Vignoli, Huub van de Wetering (2004) "Mapping Music in the Palm of your Hand, Explore and Discover Your Collection." ISMIR 2004 @ http://ismir2004.ismir.net/proceedings/p074-page-409-paper153.pdf
Thursday, December 8
Wrap Up and Present Group Projects
Assignment 6 (Comprehensive Report) DUE on Thursday December 14, at 4 PM