Required Texts

• Silver, David. “Looking Backwards, Looking Forward; Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000.” Web Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://rccs.usfca.edu/intro.asp
• Turner, Fred. “Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community.” Technology and Culture 46, no. 3 (2005): 485–512. doi:10.1353/tech.2005.0154. http://lar.me/2zb

Silver

Silver, David. “Looking Backwards, Looking Forward; Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000.” Web Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://rccs.usfca.edu/intro.asp

Cyberculture Studies

• Cyberspace as hallucination
• Frontier mentality
• Social groups
• Introducing ‘Net to journalists
• Democracy
• Distributed intelligence
• Hypertext

Technophilia and Technophobia

• Enthusiasm and anxiety
• Geeks and Luddites

Turner

Turner, Fred. “Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community.” Technology and Culture 46, no. 3 (2005): 485–512. doi:10.1353/tech.2005.0154. http://lar.me/2zb

Counterculture/Cyberculture

Further/Furthur 19

By Joe Mabel.

New Communalists

• War and Peace
• Communes
• Utopias
• “Community” in strong sense (“disembodied tribe”, “transcendent collective”…)

Crowd

• West Coast, European-American, college-educated Baby Boomers
• Collaboration and horizontality
• Medium and networks
• Employment, reputation, expertise
• Shift to business
• Subversion, recuperation, reappropriation

Online Activity: Geek Test

• Take one of the following “geek tests”:
  • “innergeek original” (lots of checkboxes)
  • “Matthew Barr” (40 y/n)
  • “OkCupid” (60 MCQ, may nag you for registration)
• Post something about your results or about the test itself.

Required Texts

• Ritzer, G., and N. Jurgenson. (2010) “Production, Consumption, Prosumption: The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital ‘Prosumer’.” Journal of Consumer Culture 10 (1): 13–36. doi:10.1177/1469540509354673. http://joc.sagepub.com/content/10/1/13.short
• Warschauer, M., and T. Matuchniak. (2010) “New Technology and Digital Worlds: Analyzing Evidence of Equity in Access, Use, and Outcomes.” Review of Research in Education 34(1): 179–225. doi:10.3102/0091732X09349791. http://rre.sagepub.com/content/34/1/179

Ritzer

Ritzer, G., and N. Jurgenson. (2010) “Production, Consumption, Prosumption: The Nature of Capitalism in the Age of the Digital ‘Prosumer’.” Journal of Consumer Culture 10 (1): 13–36. doi:10.1177/1469540509354673. http://joc.sagepub.com/content/10/1/13.short

Ritzer

• Author of The McDonaldization of Society (1993)
• Sociology of production, consumption, and prosumption
• Change to postindustrial society
• Web as context and hope more than focus

Warschauer

Warschauer, M., and T. Matuchniak. (2010) “New Technology and Digital Worlds: Analyzing Evidence of Equity in Access, Use, and Outcomes.” Review of Research in Education 34(1): 179–225. doi:10.3102/0091732X09349791. http://rre.sagepub.com/content/34/1/179

Warschauer

• Known for Digital Divide
  • Representative of studies
• Beyond access
• Data-heavy
  • Almost “meta-analysis”
  • Can skip details
• Focus on sections (out of school use, 21st Century Learning Skills…)
• Study smart
• Collaborative studying