Participation Literacy
Week# 2 Blogging and the “Daily We”
Trebor Scholz | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

week 2
Conversation:
Overview, Getting Started Democracy and Blogging
week 1 Conversation:
week 3
Privacy and Social Networking
Attention Overload:
Search, Filter, Content Aggregation
Collective Action:
week 4 week 5 Flash Mobs, Activism, and Micro-Blogging
week 6
Collaboration:
week 7 Spring Break
Wikis, Wikipedia, Mashups Collaboration:
Collaborative Writing
week 8
Collaboration:
week 9
Social Mapping
Sharing
Cooperation: Media Sharing
week 10
Sharing
week 11
Referral, Tagging, Folksonomies Sharing
Piracy and File Sharing
week 12
week 13 Sharing
week 14 Copyright and Virtual Worlds
Social Bookmarking
Social Music Sites
week 15
Social Cataloging Sites
Trebor Scholz | The New School University | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

OpenOffice.orgis a GIMP is the GNU Image
Instructorʼs Resources Tweetdeck takes an
multiplatform and multilingual Manipulation Program. It is a
http://delicious.com/Trebor/ abundance of information from
office suite and an open- freely distributed piece of
Twitter i.e twitter feeds, and
source project. Compatible software for such tasks as
breaks it down into more
with all other major office photo retouching, image
manageable bite sized pieces.
suites, the product is free to composition and image
download, use, and distribute. authoring. It works on many
operating systems, in many
languages.
Audacity is free, open source VLC Plays more video files than
Firefox The award-winning Miro is the free open-source
software for recording and most players: Quicktime, AVI, DIVX,
Web browser is now faster, video platform.
editing sounds. It is available OGG, and more.
more secure, and fully
for Mac OS X, Microsoft
customizable to your online
Windows, GNU/Linux, and
life. With Firefox 2, weʼve
other operating systems.
added powerful new features
that make your online
experience even better.

Requirements
Group project: Video conversation about the readings (due Feb 12 before class) 10%
RSS assignment (due Feb 19 before class) 10%
Twitter assignment (due Feb 26 before class) 10%
Group project: Wiki Assignment (due March 5 before class) 10%
Flickr Assignment (due April 2 before class) 10%
Social Bookmarking Assignment (due April 30 before class) 10%
Group project: Second Life assignment (due April 23 before class) 10%
Reflective Research Journal (blogged throughout the semester on Social Media Classroom):
responses to readings-- weekly length 1000 words 30 %
Trebor Scholz | LCST 2031 A | Spring 2009

Reflective Research Journal
1) weekly question about the readings posted on your SMC wiki 48 hours before class
2) one sentence summary of readings and additional notes on subtopics posted to SMC posted before class
3) notes based on instructor’s presentation and class discussion. Add them to SMC blog after class (1-3> 1000 words).
follow up from class discussion in more depth-- reflection and critical thinking rather than reporting
4) add points from discussion in forum and chat
5) bookmark and annotate a websites through the semester on SMC’s bookmarking tool
6) weekly as a group: add unknown terms and key concepts to the wiki repository and research a brie explanation
These activities, performed throughout the semester will help us to record our learning process. During class
meetings, students are expected to take notes and post them to their blog.
During the last few week of class you will take all of this
material and turn it into a coherent narrative: your
reflective research journal
due May 12 (4000 words, no late submissions accepted)

Conversation:
Democracy and Blogging
week 2
Feb 3, 5
Required Reading:
Jill Walker Rettberg, \"A Brief History of Weblogs,\" Jill Walker Rettberg, Blogging (Cambridge: Polity, 2008)
22-30.
Cass R. Sunstein, \"The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?,\" Boston Review, October
20, 2003
<http://bostonreview.net/BR26.3/sunstein.html>
Suggested Reading:
Dorothy Kidd, \"IndyMedia.org A New Communication Commons,\" Martha McCaughey and Michael Ayers,
Cyberactivism (London: Routledge, 2003) 47-65.
Sullivan, Andrew. \"Why I Blog - The Atlantic (November 2008).\" TheAtlantic.com :: Home. 1 Nov. 2008. 22
Jan. 2009 <http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/andrew-sullivan-why-i-blog/4>.
Lab:
Blogware (i.e., Bloglines)
Case Studies:
Indymedia, Wikipedia page discussion Gaza-Israel
Trebor Scholz | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Conversation:
Democracy and Blogging
week 2
Feb 3, 5
Discussion:
Cass R. Sunstein, \"The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?,\" Boston Review, October
20, 2003
<http://bostonreview.net/BR26.3/sunstein.html>
Trebor Scholz | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

social networking for german foresters and hunters
www.land‐jaeger.de/landjaeger/

The Daily We
plural monocultures
split into small fractionalized topical niches
\"The connections among people help guide
what the group learns and knows.\"
David Weinberger
http://tinyurl.com/2g975n

Conversation:
Democracy and Blogging
week 2
Feb 3, 5
Discussion:
Jill Walker Rettberg, \"A Brief History of Weblogs,\" Jill Walker Rettberg, Blogging (Cambridge: Polity, 2008)
22-30.
Trebor Scholz | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Justin Hall (b. 1974 in Chicago) is an American freelance journalist who is best known as a pioneer blogger

http://tinyurl.com/yjr6pq

Blogging is the art and science of pointing to each other

Intro to Blogging http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI

Intro to Google Reader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPZ2Uu_X3Y

Conversation:
• Blogging
Blogs started around 1994 but did not attract main stream attention because these largely diaristic practices that
grew out of homepage culture did not show much commercial potential.
(video excerpts from: Homepage)
http://old.d‐word.com/homepage/index.html
Blogware like Geocities and Lycos developed that hosted blogs (diaries, photos, audio, political commentary).
Today it is easier than ever to create a blog (Blogger, Moveable Type). Blogs started as experiments and where
taken over by euphoria in the early 1990s. After about 2003 they were used by more and more people. Today
there are about one hundred million blogs. They offer a mix of public and private voice to the public.
“Massification” of Voice
No one single weblog changes what the NYT may cover. In their totality, however, blogs do influence what
traditional mass media report. The world of blogs does not replace traditional mass media but it does
influence them.
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Speech Acts
Rosa Luxemburg vs. teen on Youtube

Blogging
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Blogware
Plone http://www.plone.org/
Company hosts your files:
Drupal http://www.drupal.org/
Blogger http://www.blogger.com
Live Journal http://www.livejournal.com
You host your files:
Movable Type http://www.movabletype.org/
WordPress http://wordpress.org/
Trebor Scholz | LCST 3073 A | Spring 2009

Conversation:
Democracy and Blogging
week 2
Feb 3, 5
http://craphound.com/images/xtianatheism.jpg
http://craphound.com/images/xtianatheism.jpg

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/maps/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/WTO_protests_in_Seattle_November_30_1999.jpg

http://seesmic.com/

http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/maps/
live meter for inaccessible sites worldwide
www.herdict.org/web/

Trebor Scholz
scholzt@newschool.edu
The New School University
Twitter: trebors
Blog: http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms
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