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Monday, April 14. Virtual Communities
Reading:
Theresa Senft, “Baud Girls and Cargo Cults”
Danah Boyd, “Friends, Friendsters and Top 8: Writing Community into Being on Social Network Sites”
Brett Bumgarner, “You have been poked: Exploring the uses and gratifications of Facebook among emerging adults”
Jennifer Golbeck, “The dynamics of Web-based social networks: Membership, relationships and change”
Extra: Listen to Jennifer Golbeck discuss web-based social networks on the Podcast of NPR's Diane Rehm Show.
Wednesday, April 16. Ethnographies of Virtual Community
Reading:
David Bell, “Chapter 9: Researching Cybercultures” in An Introduction to Cyberculture Routledge, 2001. (To Be Distributed)
In-Class Exercise: Exploring Online Social Networks
Friday, April 18. Online Identity
Reading:
Julian Dribble, “A Rape in Cyberspace”
Sherry Turkle, “Who am We?”
In-Class Exercise: Visit Lamdamoo
Power point: Identity in Cyberspace
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