Monday:
COLLECTIVE MEDIA // PARTICIPATORY ONLINE CULTURES
Can emerging forms of media increase democratic participation and debate and create new public spaces for political intervention?
Terms:
participatory online cultures, weblog, wiki, collaboration, (free) cooperation
Read:
From "Soft Architecture Machines" Nicholas Negroponte, 1975 // p353
"Radio as an Apparatus of Communication" Bertold Brecht
Lecture
Examples:
Discordia, Kuro5hin, Wikipedia
Wednesday:
FINAL EXAM:
3 PAGES MULTIPLE CHOICE, ONE PAGE SHORT ANSWERS
*Final Lecture
note:
Instead of last day of class being Monday April 26- attendance of the conference
"networks, art & collaboration" on Saturday is mandatory.
*The class officially ends with a dance party as part of the conference.
Schedule will be posted at:
http://freecooperation.org
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