tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7503572363231562592024-03-05T01:09:19.944-08:00LIS 201 - The Information SocietyFall 2014 • UW-Madison School of Library & Information Studies • Professor Greg DowneyGreg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-44354998795598020222014-12-22T07:27:00.003-08:002014-12-22T07:27:41.128-08:00Thanks for a great semester, and have a great new yearFolks, this will very likely be the last time I teach LIS 201 for quite awhile. This was an unusual and experimental course that I developed just around the time that I earned tenure here at UW, and frankly I didn't know if students would find it either interesting or useful. Seven years and over 1,000 students later, I think I have my answer. It has been a great highlight of my career to watch each class of new participants encounter this material from their own ever-changing historical perspectives. (This class is about as old as Twitter is, for example.) <br />
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Going forward, you're all going to continue to build the "information society" yourselves with every economic, democratic, community, and career choice you make over the course of your lives. I hope our brief time together has helped you to better understand the impact of those choices, and inspired you to similarly help to empower others to more fully participate in shaping our networked world of ideas. <br />
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All the best, GREGGreg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-16026079137143394112014-12-09T05:47:00.001-08:002014-12-09T05:47:40.203-08:00This week (and next week) in LIS 201<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 15: Student presentations</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 09</h2>
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HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If problems with your slide show were discovered when screened by your TA, fix them and repost. <em>You must have a working slide show to receive credit for the assignment.</em></li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Last ten minutes: Fill out discussion section evaluations (TA leaves room).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Graded exam #2 handed back to students.</li>
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Final Exam Week</h1>
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There is no final exam for this course.</div>
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<b>Your multimedia book review is due on the last weekday of finals week: Friday, December 19, by 5pm.</b> Post the link to your book review blog to your discussion section wiki (and you may want to email it to your TA as well, just to make sure). Make it serious, and make it look good. No late book reviews will be accepted.</div>
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Have a good winter break!</div>
Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-39234194017238493722014-12-01T10:07:00.002-08:002014-12-01T10:07:20.909-08:00This week in LIS 201<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 14: SECOND MIDTERM EXAM</h1>
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EXAM ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 02</h2>
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READINGS BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss strategies for multimedia book review project.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Graded paper #2 handed back to students.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
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For your last online activity, you will reflect on your own online experience in this course.</div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">The "hybrid" or "blended" course approach of LIS 201 -- combining in-person lecture, in-person discussion section, and online activity and writing -- is an increasingly popular mode of educational delivery in higher education. Do a web search and see if you can find a few other examples of hybrid/blended courses, either at UW-Madison or at other universities. How do these examples differ from our approach in LIS 201?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Think about your own experience with this course. For example: Did the online portions connect with the in-person portions? Did you feel that you were a more effective student in the physical world or the virtual world? Were you able to learn more about your fellow students from online or offline (face-to-face) interactions? Do you feel more comfortable now with online resources like blogs and wikis than you did before taking this course? Should UW instructors increase their use of online components in courses, or should we proceed with greater caution?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Finally, think about the substantive material from the lectures and readings on the information society that you've worked with all semester long. Did the course lectures and readings bring a better perspective to your own online experiences, both in this course and in your personal life? Or another way of thinking about it: would online course components work differently in a course that wasn't all about the online world of information?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Write up your findings and your reactions on your discussion section weblog. Be honest, it's OK.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Comment on at least one other student's posting.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-23113828884193434422014-11-18T08:57:00.001-08:002014-11-18T08:57:20.332-08:00This week in LIS 201<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 12: Sustainable information infrastructure</h1>
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LECTURE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18</h2>
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READINGS BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Rebecca Slayton, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Efficient, secure green: Digital utopianism and the challenge of making the electrical grid ‘smart,’</a>” <em>Information & Culture</em> 48:4 (2013).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Jonathan Sterne, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Out with the trash: On the future of new media</a>,” in Charles R. Acland, ed., <em>Residual Media</em> (2007).</li>
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HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><strong>Post your five-minute slideshow presentation to your personal wiki page. </strong>This must be a working presentation; in other words, once your TA downloads it and clicks on it, it should open up and play with both images and narration.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You will begin to screen the slideshow presentations and talk about them.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Your TA will save some time at the end of class to discuss the upcoming second midterm.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
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This week you will review and revise your previous blog postings to think about the online "voice" that you have developed over the course of this semester, and how that differs from the voice you construct for yourself through written and print materials.</div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Go back through your discussion section blog and copy out every single entry you have posted for these weekly online assignments all semester long, pasting them all into a single word processing document, one by one, with the title and date indicated for each entry. (You don't have to include the comments you left on other students' blog posts -- just your own main blog posts.) </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Then go through and proofread this big compendium of blog posts. Check all of your spelling and grammar. Make sure you have written in complete sentences all the way through. Add paragraph breaks if appropriate. And make sure you have correctly spelled/identified any authors' names you have reference. Your goal is ZERO MISTAKES.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Format this blog post compendium document as a regular writing assignment -- with 12-point Times or Times Roman font, one-inch margins, and double spacing -- and print it out so you can hand it in to your TA at the next discussion section. You will want to read over it one more time in printed form, because you will probably catch some last-minute typos if you do. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Finally, write a NEW blog post back on your discussion section blog discussing how you have presented yourself through your online writing in the class so far, and whether that is the same way that you present yourself in other aspects of your scholarly career in LIS 201 (eg. in person in discussion section, through your formal written assignments, and/or through your work on exams). Which of your self-presentations is the most "true" or the most effective? Which showcases your talents the best? </li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-67043816108024710572014-11-11T03:58:00.001-08:002014-11-11T03:58:28.066-08:00This week in LIS 201 (week 11)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 11: Games, simulations, and avatars</h1>
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LECTURE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Video games</a></li>
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READINGS BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Stephen Kline et al., “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The new cyber-city: The interactive game industry in the new millennium</a>,” <em>Digital Play: The Interaction of Technology, Culture, and Marketing</em> (2003).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Carlo Rotella, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">No child left untableted</a>,” <em>New York Times</em> (12 September 2013).</li>
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HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your turn to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Upload a working "skeleton file" of your slideshow presentation to your discussion section wiki, and make a link to your personal wiki page. This should be a PowerPoint file that has all the timings correct for the Ignite presentation, with 15-second auto-advance of the slides.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (# 17 and #18) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses). <strong>These should be the last article speeches of the semester.</strong></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss your book slideshow project.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This weekend you'll participate in an augmented reality game. For this exercise, you should team up with from one to three other students in your discussion section. At least one student in each team needs to have an iOS device (an Apple iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad). </span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Read through the <a href="http://arisgames.org/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Aris</a> web site at <a href="http://arisgames.org/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">http://arisgames.org</a> and learn about this augmented reality tool.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Download the <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aris/id371788434" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Aris app</a> from the iOS app store at <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aris/id371788434" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/aris/id371788434</a></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Use the app to create an ARIS account and login to the game server.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Pick one of the available games from the "Location Specific" category (these involve our campus and city).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Play!</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Blog about your experience playing this sort of game. (Each group may create a single jointly-authored blog post.)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">(Inspired to <a href="http://arisgames.org/make/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">create your own augmented reality game</a>? I'm willing to consider extra credit if you do; let me know.)</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-38089214243495611942014-11-04T06:08:00.001-08:002014-11-04T06:08:46.739-08:00This week in LIS 201 (week 10)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 10: Information labor and digital divides</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 04 </h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.apple.com/ipad/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Apple</a>, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/foxconn_technology/?offset=15&s=oldest" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Foxconn</a>, and <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/460/retraction" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">controversy</a> over different meanings of work and the varying conditions for different information workers across the globe. </li>
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READINGS BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The political economy of work and health in silicon valley</a>,” in <em>The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy</em> (2002).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Michael Spence, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Information technology and the integration of the global economy</a>,” in <em>The Next Convergence: The Future of Economic Growth in a Multispeed World</em> (2011).</li>
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HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your turn to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Finish your final draft of paper #2!</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#15 and #16) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Turn in printed final version of paper #2.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss your final multimedia project ("skeleton" file for Ignite presentation due on wiki next week)</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This weekend you will explore the presence of casualized labor on the Interent -- and in real communities.</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Manpower Inc. is the world's largest temporary employment firm: "Manpower's worldwide network of 4,500 offices in 80 countries and territories enables the company to meet the needs of its 400,000 clients per year, including small and medium size enterprises in all industry sectors, as well as the world's largest multinational corporations." <a href="http://www.manpower.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Explore their web site</a> a bit to get a sense of what this firm does. (<a href="http://www.manpower.com/press/secondlife.cfm" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">They even have a branch on Second Life</a> ...)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Now go to the US site for Manpower and do a <a href="http://www.manpowerjobs.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">job search</a> in three different areas: (1) Madison, WI; (2) your hometown (or the city closest to your hometown); (2) a town or city you might like to someday live in.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">(Hint: Leave the "Keyword(s)" field on the search page empty, but choose a specific state from the drop-down menu, click on a specific town in the "locations" list, and then click the ">" button to move that town into the search box. Finally, click "Search.")</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">What kind of technology skills do these jobs demand? How many temporary vs. permanent jobs are listed? Do these look like good jobs to you?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Write up a report of your findings, comparing the three places you investigated, for your discussion section blog.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Comment on at least one other student's posting.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-4566657961099372682014-10-28T04:25:00.002-07:002014-10-28T04:25:22.050-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 09)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 09: Social networking and online immersion</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 28 </h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Film: <a href="http://apps.carleton.edu/temp/disconnected/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Disconnected</a> (2008) </li>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Ramesh Srinivasan, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Bridges between cultural and digital worlds in Revolutionary Egypt</a>," <em>The Information Society </em>29 (2013), 49-60.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">S. Craig Watkins, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The very well connected: Friending, bonding, and community in the digital age</a>," The Young and the Digital (2009). </li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your turn to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Complete your peer reviews of your fellow students' paper #2 drafts on their pages of the discussion section wiki.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#13 and #14)on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss paper #2 revision strategies.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week's challenge will be especially difficult. Get ready.</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Attempt to survive without using any personal digital social networking tools for the whole weekend, Friday 5pm to Sunday 5pm. Do not consult or post to Facebook or MySpace or LinkedIn or Google+ or whatever else it is that young people these days use for social networking. Do not Tweet. Do not text. Do not instant-message. Do not Skype. Do not iChat. Do not answer personal emails (or even read them, if you can avoid it). And, yes, do not use your cell phone at all (although you may use a land-line phone or a pay phone). The only thing you are allowed to do is the minimum necessary online participation for other classes you are taking.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Once the weekend is over (or once you've thrown in the towel if you don't make it to Sunday at 5pm), write about the experience on your discussion section blog. How do you end up communicating with people? How do you coordinate meetings with your friends? How do you survive without taking a Quiz On Your Favorite Star Wars Lego Mini-Figure every hour?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Comment on at least one other student's write-up.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Be thankful you weren't a college student before the early 1990s, like I was, when THERE WAS NO WORLD WIDE WEB! (Gasp!)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-32736700473741328522014-10-23T06:55:00.005-07:002014-10-23T06:55:46.074-07:00More LIS 201 extra credit opportunitiesLIS 201 students: Here are three more opportunities for extra credit. Each of these is worth 0.5 points. You may choose to do all three, or two, or one, or none. It is extra credit, so it is not required. <br />
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(1) Attend a Go Big Read event (see <a href="http://www.gobigread.wisc.edu/">http://www.gobigread.wisc.edu</a>). There are lots of different events you could choose. Document your attendance somehow and forward that documentation to your TA. And then post a substantive summary of and reflection on the event to your discussion section blog.<br />
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(2) Attend a 2-hour or longer Software Training for Students workshop before the end of the semester (see <a href="https://sts.doit.wisc.edu/">https://sts.doit.wisc.edu</a>). Document your attendance somehow and forward that documentation to your TA. And then post a substantive summary of and reflection on the training to your discussion section blog.<br />
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(3) Attend a 30-minute or longer tutoring session with a student mentor at the Writing Center before the end of the semester (see <a href="http://www.writing.wisc.edu/">http://www.writing.wisc.edu</a>). Ideally this one should focus on your writing assignment #2, although if you attend a session for a writing assignment for a different class, I will count that too. Document your attendance somehow and forward that documentation to your TA. And then email your TA with a brief summary of whether you found the tutoring section useful and what changes you made to your writing assignment as a result.<br />
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Again, each of these is worth 0.5 points. Cheers, GREGGreg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-86765465270825290902014-10-21T07:24:00.001-07:002014-10-21T07:24:51.671-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 08)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 08: Big data and social surveillance</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Beyond Google</a></li>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Tarleton Gillespie, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The relevance of algorithms</a>,” in T. Gillespie et al. eds., <em>Media Technologies</em> (2014).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">David Lyon, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Surveillance, power, and everyday life</a>,” in R. Mansell et al. eds., <em>The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies</em> (2007).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your turn to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Post your rough draft of paper #2 to your personal wiki pages (you will want to create a separate page so that your peer reviewers can just "comment" at the bottom).</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#11 and #12) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
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This week, you will discover how much information you can find out about yourself online.<br /></div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First, do a geodemographic marketing analysis on yourself, by searching online for data about the place where you live which someone might ascribe to you. Here are some sites to start with: </li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.whitepages.com/reverse_phone" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">http://www.whitepages.com/reverse_phone </a>(enter your phone)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://factfinder.census.gov/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">http://factfinder.census.gov/ </a>(enter your zip code)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://accessdane.co.dane.wi.us/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">http://accessdane.co.dane.wi.us/ </a>(enter your address)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/</a> (find your hometown and explore income, education, other demographics)</li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Next, do a social networking analysis on yourself, by searching for online data specifically about you on various social networking services that you might use -- Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc. Make sure you are not logged in to those services in order to see what an outside visitor would see (you might want to try searching your Facebook identity from a public computer, for example).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Now do a general Google search, first using your name in different combinations ("Greg Downey," "Downey, Greg," "G Downey," etc.), then using your email address, and finally using your telephone number.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Can you think of any other sites to search for which might provide either individual or aggregate data to help flesh out your "digital puppet"?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">When you are finished searching these sites, create a new post on your discusion section blog describing the person that a geodemographic firm would see when they look for "you". What do you think about this representation of your existence?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Comment on at least one other student's posting for this assignment.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-10097544314173557462014-10-14T05:50:00.001-07:002014-10-16T13:11:39.124-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 07)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 07: Cyberspace and hypermedia</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Films: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gR6VPVrpw" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The Machine is (Changing) Us</a> (Michael Wesch; 2009) and <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/revolution-in-cairo/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Revolution in Cairo</a> (Frontline; 2011). </li>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Henry Jenkins et al., “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Where Web 2.0 went wrong</a>,” <em>Spreadable Media</em> (2013).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Robert McChesney, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">How can the political economy of communication help us understand the Internet?</a>” in <em>Digital Disconnect</em> (2013).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#9 and #10) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss tasks and strategies for writing assignment #2. (Rough draft due on wiki by start of next week's discussion.)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Graded paper #1 handed back.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Graded midterm #1 handed back.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week we'll explore a famous article by scientist, engineer, and wartime government administrator Vannevar Bush on hyperlinked media that many cite as an inspiration for today's World Wide Web.</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Read Bush's 1945 article entitled "<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">As we may think</a>," where he describes his vision of an information infrastructure he called the "Memex."</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Twenty years later, in 1967, Bush wrote a follow up article, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/s0716d5j7ahauinycieh" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Memex revisited</a>," which recast his ideas in light of the early computer revolution. Read this revised version and think about the differences from the 1945 version.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">About thirty years after this, in 1995, a symposium was held at MIT to consider Bush's Memex ideas fifty years after their original publication. (Remember, this was only a few years after the World Wide Web had appeared on the media stage.) Many of the attendees were well-known pioneers in the area of hypertext research, like Douglas Englebart (inventor of the computer mouse), Ted Nelson (author of the 1970s counterculture computer manifesto "Computer Lib!") and Tim Berners-Lee (creator of the protocols that underlie the World Wide Web itself). Read <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/Bush_Symposium_Interact_2.html#As%20We%20May%20Think" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">this description of their reactions to the original Vannevar Bush article</a>.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Finally, perform a <a href="http://www.google.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Google</a> search on "Memex" to find an intriguing commentary (news article, scholarly article, blog post, cartoon, video, whatever) on this subject. ("Intriguing" here could mean that you find it very insightful or that you find it entirely uninformed.) Then go to your discussion section blog and write a new post reacting to that commentary. Include a link to the original commentary. Make sure your commentary is constructive and civil, because the original author may notice and want to reply!</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Read and reply to at least one other student's blog posting.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-50542564096344433382014-10-07T13:45:00.002-07:002014-10-07T13:45:02.708-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 06)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 06: FIRST MIDTERM EXAM</h1>
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EXAM ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 07</h2>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week's reading relates to your software training session and your multimedia assignment, not your exam.</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Garr Reynolds, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Presentation tips</a>," http://www.garrreynolds.com/preso-tips/ (2013). </li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<strong>Attend software training sessions, not your regular discussion. </strong>Rather than hold your normal discussion section, all students will attend software training sessions scheduled in various computer labs around campus, during your normal discussion section time. You will receive customized training on PowerPoint presentation software that you may use for your multimedia project. This training is offered courtesy of the DoIT <a href="http://www.doit.wisc.edu/training/student/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Software Training for Students</a> program.</div>
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<strong>For sections meeting Wednesday, October 8th:</strong>Location: 150 Animal Sciences<br />Time: During your regularly-scheduled section time </div>
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<strong>For sections meeting Thursday, October 9th:</strong>Location: 150 Animal Sciences<br />Time: During your regularly-scheduled section time </div>
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<strong>For sections meeting Friday, October 10th:</strong>Location: 150 Animal Sciences<br />Time: During your regularly-scheduled section time<br /><br />You should feel free to bring your own laptops if you have your own copy of PowerPoint. </div>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week your online activity will involve the selection of the book that you are going to read and review. Each student in your discussion section must choose a </span><em style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">different</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> book to read, so if you fear someone else will pick the same book as you, finish this assignment early! And as a final challenge, the book must have been published in the last two years --” which narrows the field of candidates considerably!</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Think about some search terms or phrases which might quickly and effectively lead you to interesting books on "the information society." Will using the term "information" suffice? What will using the search term "information society" leave out? Be creative.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Using an online bookstore like <a href="http://www.amazon.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Amazon.com</a>, do a search for a book related to the information society that you would like to read. (We are starting in an online book store in order to make sure that the book is still in print.) Narrow your choice down to three candidates <em>that have been published within the last two years</em>. Which book has the most pages? Which costs the most? Which has the best reviews?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Once you have found three possible books, look each of them up through the public web interface of <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">WorldCat</a>. This is a meta-catalog of all US public and university library catalogs. Which book is held by more libraries? What are the subject classifications of each book? Do they differ? Do they suggest further, more interesting search terms? (You may want to go back to step #2 with these terms.)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Look each book up on <a href="http://books.google.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Google Books</a>. Which book seems to have generated the most chatter on the Web? Which has more reviews available through Google? Are any of them in the public domain?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Finally, look up each book on <a href="http://www.librarything.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Library Thing</a>. (You may have to create a free account on this service in order to search, but it's worth it.) Which book has been read by more users of this social networking service? Which book seems to match best with other books that you think you might like?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Decide which book you want to read at this point.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Now do a search of your chosen book on two academic journal databases: <a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/Q5EHNM9C2XMXU5KT5VABJN7UPY57L66T4T28ID2S7CGY6UK1LM-85136?func=native-link&resource=UWI09610" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">ProQuest</a> and <a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/HB9KPIVXMCGYD9ENDSTQPA2BQM7YYQRDX67V12N8L239MQETR6-20345?func=native-link&resource=UWI00075" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Project Muse</a>. What journals have reviewed your book? Who are the reviewers? What books have the reviewers themselves written? Read and then print out or otherwise save these book reviews (you will use them in your final paper).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Create a new post on your discussion section blog that describes the candidate books you considered, the book you ended up choosing, and the process you took to choose it. Include an image of the cover (from Amazon.com) and a citation to any academic reviews you found.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Comment on another student's chosen book. (Has anyone chosen the same book as you? If they posted their choice to the blog before you did, then you need to start over and pick a different book!)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-54929382696761274992014-10-03T08:26:00.001-07:002014-10-03T08:26:10.928-07:00Crossing the Digital Divide Thanks guys for an awesome discussion this week in 303 and 308! And major shout outs to Ella and Will for sending me two great resources to continue our examination of the "digital divide"!<br />
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First from Ella, what the city of Madison is doing to combat the digital divide:<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;">City works to solve achievement gap, close the ‘digital
divide’</span></u><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">October 2nd: <a href="http://badgerherald.com/news/2014/10/02/city-works-to-solve-achievement-gap-close-the-digital-divide/#.VC67lvldWVk">The Badger Herald </a> </span></div>
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Madison is looking to close the “digital divide” by
providing high-speed internet to low-income residents and students of those
families who cannot afford it. Ald. Scott Resnick, District 8, proposed a $100,000
amendment that passed at Tuesday’s Board of Estimates meeting that will go
towards a feasibility study to provide internet throughout Madison using a
high-speed Long Term Evolution network. </blockquote>
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The goal of the study is to find a way to create a city
co-op utility that would provide wireless internet to low-income neighborhoods
and families. “If you think about students in the Madison School District,
there are still students who don’t have access within their homes,” Resnick
said. “When they try and compete in the classroom it becomes a huge
disadvantage. </blockquote>
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The answer of ‘you can go to the library’ is no longer a
satisfactory solution,” he said. Resnick said the LTE network would be similar to getting a
library Wi-Fi connection a mile and a half away at home. He has said previously
that for many students in Madison, when the library closes, places like
McDonald’s becomes their library. </blockquote>
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Resnick has focused on the digital divide since he took
office in 2011. At the Board of Estimates meeting, Mayor Paul Soglin said that
they are working off of national studies that show that about one-third of
households do not have high-speed internet access. </blockquote>
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Many alders at the meeting
agreed on the necessity to combat this divide. “We have to take some risk and if we’re serious about doing
something about the divide in this community, if we’re serious about what’s
going on in low-income households. This is one mechanism which is relatively
cheap given the way we’re spending money to get some really significant
outcomes, not just in terms of education, but also in terms of job
opportunity,” Soglin said. </blockquote>
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Some alders were concerned that, if accepted, the proposed
budget amendment would make the previous amendment, concerning putting in a
optic fiber high-speed cable near community centers, redundant. Resnick
disagreed, noting the fiber cable is still necessary for the LTE network. </blockquote>
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Both budget amendments are focused on closing the digital
divide, providing a space at home as well as other places in the community to
access high-speed internet. Resnick said the biggest benefit to providing
internet would be that it would serve students as an additional tool. “Having internet access doesn’t guarantee you success in the
classroom,” he said. ”It is, though, another tool that allows students to
remain competitive in the classroom.” </blockquote>
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Now that the proposed amendment has passed, Resnick said the
next steps are to start the study and begin putting together the
infrastructure. The council will hire a consulting organization to help
gather input, and talk to community leaders to look at how they can leverage
the current fiber optic network. “We need to make sure that we’re going to close the
achievement gap in Madison,” Resnick said. ”We need to work together with our
partners to make sure the internet is in the homes of our students.”</blockquote>
And then, check out this great <span style="font-size: large;">spoken word conversation</span> on our digital insanity provided by Will:<br />
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0ukQGLXQ4#t=17" id="lnk360141" previewinformation="1" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe WP', 'Segoe UI WPC', Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s0ukQGLXQ4#t=17</a></div>
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If you liked this, you would check out our very own socially minded, spoken word performing arts organization on campus, First Wave. They have an awesome festival coming up on October 16th-19th where all of their poetry is inspired by the Wisconsin Race to the Top education and inequalities study from 2013. Talk about combating access to literacy with literacy! The link to their facebook page is below.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/omaifirstwave">First Wave</a></div>
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Rebecca http://www.blogger.com/profile/04894145827812203881noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-12654235665700889072014-09-30T05:46:00.002-07:002014-09-30T05:46:42.518-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 05)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 05: The global network society</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Networks of cities</a></li>
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This week I will distribute a list of terms and essay questions to study which will help you prepare for our first in-class exam next week. (I will probably distribute these on our <a href="http://lis201.blogspot.com/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">course news feed</a>.)</div>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">William Lazonick, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Globalization of the ICT labour force</a>,” in R. Mansell et al. eds., <em>The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies</em> (2007).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Christian Sandvig, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mountain</a>,” in L. Nakamura et al. eds., <em>Race after the Internet</em> (2012).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Jan A.G.M. van Dijk,"<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Social structure</a>" in <em>The Network Society</em>(2006).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Finish the final draft of paper #1.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#7 and #8) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Turn in a printed final version of paper #1.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Review for first midterm exam.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">No online activity this weekend. Study for your exam next week.</span>Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-73456121103520086912014-09-23T11:35:00.000-07:002014-09-23T11:35:20.003-07:00The dangers of automation?Interesting <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/23/6565113/review-nicholas-carr-makes-the-case-against-automation">review</a> today at The Verge that relates to our lecture this week — a new book on the dangers of automation by Nicholas Carr, called <i>The Glass Cage</i>:<br />
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He paints a scary picture. Planes are crashing as pilots are lulled into a stupor by autopilot. Financial markets flirt with disaster as traders place too much faith in algorithms they barely understand. Doctors are acting like robots themselves as they rotely click through prompts on diagnostic and billing software. And something more ineffable is taking place, Carr worries, as automation subtly cuts us off from the world. [...] Carr takes a broad approach to automation, so any technological abbreviation of a task would qualify. Google’s auto-completing searches automates inquiry, Carr says, while legal software automates research, discovery, and even the drafting of contracts. CAD automates architectural sketching. Thanks to an explosion in computing power, more and more things are getting automated, and Carr worries that it’s all combining to degrade our skills and insulate us from the world. "When automation distances us from our work," Carr writes, "when it gets between us and the world, it erases the artistry from our lives."</blockquote>
Check out the review <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/23/6565113/review-nicholas-carr-makes-the-case-against-automation">here</a> and tell us what you think, if you have a moment.<br />
Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-47991452038703373782014-09-23T05:42:00.002-07:002014-09-23T05:42:20.858-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 04)<h1 style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 04: The postindustrial service economy</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Depression to deindustrialization</a></li>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Isaac Asimov, “<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Visit to the World’s Fair of 2014</a>,” <em>New York Times</em>(16 August 1964).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Thomas J. Sugrue, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">'The damning mark of false prosperities': The deindustrialization of Detroit</a>," in <em>The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit</em> (1996).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Laurence Veysey, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">A postmortem on Daniel Bell's postindustrialism</a>," <em>American Quarterly </em>34:1 (1982).<em> </em></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Kurt Vonnegut<span style="font-style: italic;">, <a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Player Piano</a></span> [chapters 1-3] (1952).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Complete your peer reviews of your fellow students' paper #1 drafts, posted as comments on their pages of the discussion section wiki.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#5 and #6) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week you'll explore the </span><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger" style="color: #6c91ce; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-decoration: none;">Prelinger Archives</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">, which contains thousands fantastic vintage educational and corporate promotional films, some of which deal with information and communication technology. Many of these films are in color with sound, and most are short (15 or 20 minutes).</span><br style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Search the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Prelinger Archives</a> for the most interesting vintage film for a 21st century class on the "information society" that you can.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Please note: Within each discussion section, every student needs to find a different film to post! This means you need to see what's already been posted in your section to avoid duplication! (Students who do this assignment earlier might have an easier time of it.)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Post a link to your film on your discussion section blog and make an argument about why this film is useful to students of our modern information infrastructure -- what can we learn from the film you found?</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Watch at least one of your fellow students' suggested films and post a comment with your reaction.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-3772521153782598022014-09-16T06:05:00.002-07:002014-09-16T06:05:46.258-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 03)<h1 style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 03: The electromechanical control revolution</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The control revolution and modernity</a></li>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">James Beniger, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The Control Revolution</a>," in Albert H. Teich, ed.,<em>Technology and the Future</em> (1990).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">William Cronon, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The busy hive</a>," in <em>Nature's Metropolis</em> (1991).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Simon Head, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The rise of the reengineers</a>," in <em>The New Ruthless Economy </em>(2003).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to write a 500-word article critique, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Post your rough draft of paper #1 to your personal wiki pages (create a separate subpage so that your peer reviewers can just "comment" at the bottom).</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two student presentations (#3 and #4) on the readings (and two student extemporaneous responses).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Your TA will set up peer review groups ( 6 students in each) and post these on your discussion section wiki in case you forget.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week you are going to explore some historical news databases.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;" /><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Pick a term relating to the modern information society -- ” "world wide web" or "computer" or "cell phone" or "digital divide" or ... well, use your imagination. The only constraint is that you can't pick a term that one of your fellow sectionmates has used (so it is in your interest to do this assignment early!)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Try to find the earliest journalistic use of this term in three different historical newspaper databases provided by ProQuest: the <a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/E2H5RS1C9NYVRVG7X47U3AMIAJQ1GPPSDKYELM3NSMRS5TLJYD-26190?func=native-link&resource=UWI09684" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">New York Times</a>, the <a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/E2H5RS1C9NYVRVG7X47U3AMIAJQ1GPPSDKYELM3NSMRS5TLJYD-26178?func=native-link&resource=UWI29131" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Chicago Tribune</a>, and the<a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/E2H5RS1C9NYVRVG7X47U3AMIAJQ1GPPSDKYELM3NSMRS5TLJYD-26184?func=native-link&resource=UWI17702" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;"> Los Angeles Times</a>.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Now take the same term and try to find its earliest use in three different scholarly article databases: <a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/MGBB1QU31J1D6XXJ17BQ8ILJR6I1HMC9CUN8L3J5G2R4DU115R-28916?func=native-link&resource=UWI09610" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">ProQuest</a>, <a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/4KLJYGUGCAE7GFHCHYY8U76JE515L8TF1K4R33XC46I5QLTEUG-87852?func=native-link&resource=UWI00075" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Project Muse</a>, and<a href="http://metalib.wisconsin.edu.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/V/D9RATY6TN14LKTQXV74C5KHSPLNLHJGS4GQ2DEN4KDMCASIH9Q-88456?func=native-link&resource=UWI11456" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">JStor</a>.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Write a brief post on your section blog about the ways in which your term was first used, and whether it still has the same meaning today.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Visit another student's post and comment on what they found out about the term that they explored.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-84228358680517104832014-09-12T06:18:00.002-07:002014-09-12T06:18:41.288-07:00The costs and benefits of sponsoring literacy learningHere's <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/an-untapped-force-in-the-fight-for-literacy/">a short analysis piece from the New York Times</a> that illuminates some of the issues that Deborah Brandt's article from this week tried to analyze: the costs and benefits of sponsoring literacy learning, especially across communities and school districts that vary widely in their wealth and resources:<br />
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People disagree, quite strenuously, on the best curriculum for teaching children to read. But all participants in the reading wars agree on some other things: Early reading is crucial — a child who does not read proficiently by third grade will probably fall further and further behind each year. American schools are failing: two out of three fourth graders don’t read at grade level.</blockquote>
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And they agree on something else: any reading curriculum works better if children who are struggling get the chance to work, one on one, with a tutor. [...]</blockquote>
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The problem, of course, is that very few principals can afford it. A single teacher dedicated to individual tutoring can work effectively with a small number of children each week. How many teachers would be needed to help all struggling students? The schools where tutoring is most needed, moreover, are those that can least afford it.</blockquote>
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Is there a cheaper substitute that’s still effective? Health care in places where resources are short benefits from task-shifting: moving jobs to the lowest-trained and lowest-paid people who can do them well. That way, the expensive professionals can concentrate on the things that only they can do.</blockquote>
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Resources are always short in education. So it is welcome news that two recent studies show that task-shifting tutoring programs can work on a wide scale — and that scale can be achieved relatively affordably.</blockquote>
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<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/an-untapped-force-in-the-fight-for-literacy/">Check out the whole piece</a> and tell us what you think in the comments.Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-68357673706004522882014-09-11T16:00:00.001-07:002014-09-11T16:00:57.303-07:00Should everyone read Harry Potter?An <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-everyone-should-read-harry-potter/?print=true">interesting post over at Scientific American</a> connects to many of the print culture themes we discussed in lecture this week:<br />
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For decades it's been known that an effective means of improving negative attitudes and prejudices between differing groups of people is through intergroup contact – particularly through contact between “in-groups,” or a social group to which someone identifies, and “out-groups,” or a group they don’t identify with or perceive as threatening. Even reading short stories about friendship between in- and out-group characters is enough to improve attitudes toward stigmatized groups in children. A new study published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology found that reading the Harry Potter books in particular has similar effects, likely in part because Potter is continually in contact with stigmatized groups. The “muggles” get no respect in the wizarding world as they lack any magical ability. The “half-bloods,” or “mud-bloods” – wizards and witches descended from only one magical parent – don’t fare much better, while the Lord Voldemort character believes that power should only be held by “pure-blood” wizards. He’s Hitler in a cloak.</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-everyone-should-read-harry-potter/?print=true">Check out the whole post</a> and tell us what you think in the comments.Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-67277207402692536822014-09-09T07:03:00.001-07:002014-09-09T07:03:54.841-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 02)<h1 style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 02: Print culture and literacy</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 09</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Print culture and literacy</a></li>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Deborah Brandt, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">The means of production: Literacy and stratification at the twenty-first century</a>," in <em>Literacy in American lives</em> (2001).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">A framework for the history of publishing and reading in the United States 1880-1940</a>," in Carl F. Kaestle and Janice A. Radway, eds., <span style="font-style: italic;">A History of the Book in America</span>, vol. 4 (2009).</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Ted Striphas, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">E-Books and the Digital Future</a>," in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control</span>(2009).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to write a 500-word article report, you must post this to your section blog before your section meets. An article report should briefly summarize the main argument of the article, and then pose a question or comment in response. You will also want to say a little something about the author of the article and the way people responded to it. What can you find online about the person who wrote the article? Can you find any online reaction to the article? (It probably came from a book, and you can probably find book reviews.)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If it's your week to give a speech, prepare and practice! Otherwise, prepare for a possible extemporaneous speech response.</li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">First five minutes: QUIZ on reading terms (which will have been previewed in lecture)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Two four-minute student speeches (#1 and #2), one on each of the readings (and two two-minute student extemporaneous responses). Your TA will designate a classmate to record your presentations on digital video. The recording will be either emailed to you or uploaded to your discussion section wiki (which you'll be joining this weekend). After watching the recording, you must email your TA with one substantive way in which you could improve your delivery.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss tasks and strategies for writing assignment #1. (Rough draft due on wiki by start of next week's discussion.)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss the <a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">written presentation grading metric</a>.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">This week you'll learn how to use your discussion section wiki:</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Please click <a href="http://lis201.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html#wiki" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">here</a> for a <a href="http://lis201.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html#wiki" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">wiki tutorial</a></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-43600920981289759802014-09-02T05:26:00.001-07:002014-09-02T05:26:06.346-07:00This week in LIS 201 (week 01)(Each week I'll post a reminder from the syllabus of upcoming assignments and activities.)<br />
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Week 01: Introduction to four information societies</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 02</h2>
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Lecture meets this week at <strong>11am</strong> in <strong>Humanities 2650 </strong>for 75 minutes. Students are expected to attend all lectures and to take notes. By the Friday after each in-person lecture, I'll upload a PDF version of any slides I showed in lecture <a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/2wpxasbffk8tnecfwjqj" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">to our Box site</a> (and link the site to the lecture title). We may also experiment with lecture-capture technology to record the live lecture experience; if this works, I will provide links to those videos as well. <strong>Any student seen Facebooking, shopping, chatting, gaming, or otherwise multitasking with a distracting non-class activity in lecture will be asked to close their laptop</strong> -- even if you are typing notes at the same time.</div>
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READINGS TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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Buy your course reader from <a href="http://studentprint.rso.wisc.edu/" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Student Print</a> and read the articles below. Each week, you need to have your readings completed by the time you get to discussion section, in order to be able to discuss them with your TA and fellow students. We will quiz you on selected terms from the readings as well, which will be revealed at the end of each lecture.</div>
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(Unsure how closely you should be reading these? The professor has posted two <a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">annotated examples of readings</a>, to show what he highlights when he reads through them.)</div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Greg Downey, "<a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">Introduction: Communication meanings and social purposes</a>," in <span style="font-style: italic;">Technology and Communication in American History</span>(2011).</li>
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HOMEWORK TO COMPLETE BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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Just make sure to read through this web syllabus.</div>
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DISCUSSION SECTION MEETING</h2>
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All discussion sections meet this week; consult your schedule. Students are expected to attend all in-person discussion sections. If you are absent from section, you must email your TA within 24 hours of the missed section.<strong> If you are absent from two discussion sections in a row, you will receive a concerned email from the professor. After that we will refer your absence to the Office of the Dean of Students!</strong></div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Your TA will assign you to specific weeks and readings for your prepared oral presentation and your written article critique. (You won't know when you'll be called upon to do your extemporaneous oral presentation.) These will all be listed on your section wiki (which you'll join next week).</li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss the <a href="https://uwmadison.box.com/s/xwm6uv2b8h2i2byzlm8e" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">oral presentation grading metric</a>.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Discuss this week's lecture and required readings.</li>
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ONLINE OVER THE WEEKEND</h2>
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Nearly every weekend you will have online homework and writing. This weekend, after your first section meeting, you'll learn how to use your discussion section weblog. </div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Please click <a href="http://lis201.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html" style="color: #6c91ce; text-decoration: none;">here</a> for a detailed weblog tutorial.</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">You must finish this online activity before next week's lecture.</li>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-848672703327604862014-09-02T05:17:00.001-07:002014-09-02T05:17:08.944-07:00Important deadlines for Fall 2014All of these deadlines can be found at the <a href="http://registrar.wisc.edu/fall_deadlines_at_a_glance.htm">Office of the Registrar web site</a>.<br />
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<b>Friday, September 5, 2014</b><br />
Last Day to Enroll without $25 Late Initial Enrollment Fee except Specials and Guests.<br />
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<b>Wednesday, September 10, 2014</b><br />
Last day to drop courses or withdraw without DR or W grade notation on Transcript<br />
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<b>Friday, September 12, 2014</b><br />
Last Day to Add your first class without Departmental & Dean's permission - All Students<br />
Last Day to Add Courses without Departmental approval - All Students<br />
Last Day for 100% tuition adjustment on dropped classes.<br />
SPECIALS AND GUESTS ONLY: Last Day to Enroll without $25 Late Initial Enrollment Fee<br />
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<b>Friday, September 19, 2014</b><br />
Last Day to pay tuition and fees without $100 Late Payment Fee<br />
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<b>Friday, September 26, 2014</b><br />
Last Day for 50% tuition adjustment on dropped classes<br />
Last Day to Apply for Pass/Fail Privilege - Undergrads/Specials/Professionals<br />
Last Day to Convert from Credit to Audit - Undergrads/Specials/Professionals<br />
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<b>Friday, October 31, 2014</b><br />
Last Day to Drop courses - All Students<br />
Last Day to apply for Pass/Fail Privilege - Graduate Students<br />
Last Day to Convert from Credit to Audit - Graduate Students<br />
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<b>Friday, November 21, 2014</b><br />
Last day to withdraw without academic penalty- Undergrads/Specials/ProfessionalsGreg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-92041174264096149562014-09-02T05:12:00.001-07:002014-09-02T05:12:37.538-07:00FIG partnering with LIS 201 this FallEach year at least one "<a href="http://figs.wisc.edu/index.htm">First-Year Interest Group</a>" or "<a href="http://figs.wisc.edu/index.htm">FIG</a>" partners with LIS 201. Here's our FIG for this year:<br />
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Internet and Society</blockquote>
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The main course of this FIG, “Information Literacies in Online Spaces” (LIS 301), explores information and digital literacies needed by today’s online consumers and producers. Topics include “new literacies,” media education, digital divides, information quality, and online risks. To investigate these issues, we complete four case studies: Wikipedia, blogs, online video, and online video games. Issues to be covered include access (digital divides, power relations in online communities, regulation), analysis (assessing credibility, evaluating risks, analyzing representation) and production (video making, blogging, game making).</blockquote>
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The course engages students in key debates and research related to information and digital literacies, relates concepts covered in the other FIG courses to students’ own experiences, and develops digital literacies and production skills. The three courses that comprise this FIG prepare students with reading, writing and analytical skills that will be useful across the humanities and social sciences. Past students have gone on to major in journalism, communication arts, economics and computer sciences.</blockquote>
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Digital Studies Certificate - All three courses on this FIG count toward the Digital Studies Certificate. To qualify for the Certificate, students complete 15 credits that include one Core course and four additional Topical courses. LIS 201 is one of the Core courses, and LIS 301 and Com Arts 346 are Topical courses. By completing this FIG, only two additional courses are needed to qualify students for the Certificate. (Note: one of the additional courses needs to be in the area of visuality in digital design and the other needs to be in either the area of Digital Practices or the area of Digital Information Structures.) Please see the website for more information about the Certificate: <a href="http://digitalstudies.wisc.edu/">digitalstudies.wisc.edu</a></blockquote>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-53079782187816046932014-08-14T07:00:00.002-07:002014-08-14T07:00:32.425-07:00Getting ready for Fall 2014Hi folks. I'm in the process of revamping the syllabus and web site for our Fall 2014 iteration of LIS 201 (the seventh time the class has been held at UW-Madison). We have some great graduate student teaching assistants working on the class this year: Tammy Mays, Andrew Lang, Rebecca Pettyjohn, and Molly Anne McBride. Here are their discussion section assignments:<br />
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DIS 302 W 9:30-10:45AM 4322 Sewell Social Sciences - Molly Anne McBride<br />
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DIS 303 R 9:30-10:45AM 2121 Mosse Humanities Building - Rebecca Pettyjohn<br />
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DIS 304 F 11:00AM-12:15PM 4212 Helen C. White Hall - Andy Lang<br />
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DIS 305 W 1:00-2:15PM L185 Education Building - Tammy Mays<br />
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DIS 306 R 1:00-2:15PM 2101 Mosse Humanities Building - Tammy Mays<br />
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DIS 307 F 2:30-3:45PM 2261 Mosse Humanities Building - Molly Anne McBride<br />
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DIS 308 W 4:00-5:15PM 4281 Helen C. White Hall - Rebecca Pettyjohn<br />
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DIS 309 W 2:30-3:45PM 2241 Mosse Humanities Building - Andy Lang<br />
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(And as the faculty member in charge of the course, I'm teaching the DIS 301 section on Thursdays from 11am-12:15pm.)</div>
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Check back on the first day of classes for the final syllabus and reading list. And thanks for taking the course; we are going to have fun and we are going to learn a lot! Cheers, GREG</div>
Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-70967994562336006712013-12-09T13:55:00.003-08:002013-12-09T13:55:32.203-08:00One more extra credit opportunity<br />
When this class began I mentioned to you all that even though it was titled "the information society," I was going to refuse to give you an easy definition of that term, since the whole point of the class was to consider all the diverse and sometimes contradictory aspects of technology, knowledge, and social life that might fit into that concept. Well, anyway, here we are at the end of the semester and I wonder if you have any better idea of what "the information society" is all about than when you started. <div>
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It would be easy for me to ask you to write a 250-word blog post arguing for one particular definition of "the information society" for 0.5 points of extra credit. But in this class we don't take the easy way out. No, we push ourselves to imagine and communicate in new ways. So here's your extra credit challenge:</div>
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(1) Draw a picture that encapsulates your view of "the information society." Be creative. Maybe use some color? "Picture" means anything visual; diagrams or graphs or comics are all OK. Labels and arrows and stick people are fine. So what if you aren't an artist? You don't have to be <a href="http://wid.wisc.edu/profile/lynda-barry/">Lynda Barry</a> to do this. But I do want it to be hand-drawn.</div>
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(2) Digitize that picture (scan, photograph, hand-trace using a digitizing stylus, whatever) and upload it in a post to your discussion section weblog.</div>
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(3) In that same post, write a 250-word explanation or justification of your picture (you didn't think I'd let you get away with not writing, did you?).</div>
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This is worth 0.5 points of extra credit if you get it done by the end of this week, or Friday December 13 at 5pm central time. </div>
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Greg Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09154543464555817869noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750357236323156259.post-12822879201014377862013-12-09T13:43:00.002-08:002013-12-09T13:43:34.992-08:00This week in LIS 201 (week 15)<h1 style="background-color: white; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Arimo; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
Week 15: Student presentations</h1>
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LECTURE ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10</h2>
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HOMEWORK BEFORE DISCUSSION</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">If problems with your slide show were discovered when screened by your TA, fix them and repost. <em>You must have a working slide show to receive credit for the assignment.</em></li>
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DISCUSSION MEETING</h2>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;">Last ten minutes: Fill out discussion section evaluations (TA leaves room).</li>
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