SPC 260 New Media

<Week Three>

<Week 3>

Monday, April 7. Internet History: Portals, Browsers and Search Engines/ Utopian & Dystopian Views of Cyberspace

Reading:

Reading:

Wikipedia entries on “Browser Wars” and “Search Engine”

John Barlow, Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.

Cyberspace and the American Dream: A Magna Carta for the Knowledge Age

Browse:

Netrospective: 10 years of Yahoo

Wednesday, April 9 . Utopian/Dystopian Views of Cyberspace continued

Reading:

Sven Birkerts, excerpts from The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age.

Michael Gorman, “Web 2.0: The Sleep of Reason, Part1” (and Part 2) and “The Siren Song of the Internet,  Part1.” (and Part 2).

Friday, April 11. Introduction to Virtual Communities

Reading:

David Bell, “Chapter 5: Community and Cyberculture” in An Introduction to Cyberculture Routledge, 2001. (To Be Distributed)

Jones and Howard, Chapters 2 &3

***Turn in first set of blogs