ACOM465  Communicating on the Internet

Class number 2265

May 27 (Tuesday) - June 19 (Thursday)

06:00PM-08:40PM AS0013

Neuage,Terrell

 

Four weeks

15 – three hour classes

6 – 7:15 PM    7:15–7:30 PM break  7:30-8.40 PM practical

 

Learning skills and aptitudes in searching and analysing information available via the Internet. Learning skills in utilising computer mediated communication. Key aspects covered included - ethics and privacy, information quality and assessment, search techniques based on reasoned inquiry, critical analysis for information use, understanding and exploiting text-based communications technologies - email, asynchronous discussion and real-time chat.

 

Course Objectives

 

YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO

The key for all your projects is to clearly define your audience and demonstrate why this resource will be beneficial to them. The final project MUST include a wide range of links to sites that support or augment your topic. Remember this is going to be a WWW resource.

 

Markings

 

  1. Journal = 20% these will be assessed online and are due on these dates. Journal work is done in class

I.                    5% due 2nd June

II.                 5% due 9th June

III.               10% due 16th June

  1. Sectional tests = 30%

I.                    10% due 2nd June

II.                 10% due 9th June

III.               10% due 16th June

  1. Bulletin Board contributions = 20%

I.                    5% due 29th May

II.                 5% due 5th June

III.               5% due 12th June

IV.              5% due 19th June

  1. Attendance = 10% attendance is taken after the break (7.30PM each day). Everyone starts with 10% and loses two-points each class missed.
  2. Ezine total = 20%

I.                    5% due 5th June

II.                 5% due 12th June

III.               10% due 19th June

Schedule

 

EVERTHING MUST BE ONTIME – I leave for overseas on 21st June and will need to mark and hand up grades on Friday 20th June.

 

 

MAY

WEEK

 

lectuers

 

27 Tuesday

1 Computing Concepts and Issues

Overview of course.

Explaining Computer-Mediated Communication

 

PRACTICAL

Setting up our Journal

Every zine will have three parts

  1. for the student
  2. for a small group 4-5
  3. for the class

as well as

  1. chatroom
  2. newsgroup
  3. listserv
  4. sections – sports – news and interviews

 

 

 

Computers in Teaching and Learning

 

 

 

 

The Interactional Self and the Experiences of

 

 

28 Wednesday

 

Basics of an Ezine E-Zines and E-mail Marketing

Cyberculture and Digital Society

 

29 Thursday

 

Preparation and Research

Planning and Development dreamweaver

Digital Media, Hypertext, Cybernetics, Cyborgs and Virtual Realities.

 

02  Monday

2

Content Development and Writing Portfolio/e-zine/folder

 

 

03 Tuesday

 

Newsgroups

http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca

/edit435/news_lists/nl_facts.htm

 

04  Wednesday

 

Listservs Publishing and Mailing List Management

 

 

05 Thursday

 

FTP and TELNET

 

 

09  Monday

3

create a MOO or Mush

virtual community

 

 

10 Tuesday

 

Interviews on the net

 

 

11  Wednesday

 

Story collaboration via the net

 

 

12 Thursday

 

Web Design and Delivery M

Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to: understand the theory and concepts involved in Web design, determination of cognitive aspects, and human-computer interaction with the Web; identify and analyse the informatio and communication needs of an organisation and determine which needs can be met through the development of a website; develop skills in writing online policies, standards and guidelines for electronic publishing of digital information; learn skills in writing HTML and use a WYSIQG (what you see is what you get) software package (Dreamweaver or FrontPage) to develop a website; and develop skills in best practice principles in web design.

 

16  Monday

4

 

 

 

17 Tuesday

 

 

 

 

18  Wednesday

 

 

 

 

19 Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

 

TEXTS / READINGS

·  Ess, Charles, Ed. (1996). Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY.

·  Herring, Susan C., Ed. (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. John Benjamins, Philadelphia, PA

 

·  COURSE SCHEDULE / CALENDAR

Week One //

Ontological perspective on CMC Defining, modeling, technological, orality, experiential issues.

·  Sherri L. Condon and Claude G. Cech, "Functional Comparisons of Face-to-face and Computer-Mediated Communication" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Joan Korenman and Nancy Wyatt, "Group Dynamics in an E-mail Forum" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication. <.i>Oren Ziv, "Writing to Work: How Using E-mail Can Reflect Technological and Organizational Change" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Laura J. Gurak, "The Rhetorical Dynamics of a Community Protest in Cyberspace: What Happened with Lotus Marketplace" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

Week Two //

Epistemological perspective on CMC

·  David Kolb, "Discourse across Links" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

Week Three //

Ethical perspective on CMC

·  Dag Elgesem, "Privacy, Respect for Persons, and Risk" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Peter Danielson, "Pseudonyms, Mailbots, and Virtual Letterheads: The Evolution of Computer-Mediated Ethics" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  John Lawrence, "Intellectual Property Rights: The Paper Club and the Digital Commons" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Susan Herring, "Posting in a Different Voice: Gender and Ethics in CMC" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

Week Four //

Religious perspective on CMC

·  Stephen D. O'Leary and Brenda E. Brasher, "The Unknown God of the Internet: Religious Communication from the Ancient Agora to the Virtual Forum" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Phil Mullins, "Sacred Text in the Sea of Texts: The Bible in North American Electronic Culture" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

Week Five //

Linguistic/Semiotic perspective on CMC

·  Gary Shank and Donald Cunningham, "Mediated Phosphor Dots: Toward a Post-Cartesian Model of CMC via the Semiotic Highway" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Milena Collot and Nancy Belmore, "Electronic Language: A New Variety of English: in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Simeon J. Yatees, "Oral and Written Linguistic Aspects of Computer Conferencing: in Herring, Linguistic and Interactional Features of Internet Relay Chat" in Herring,

·  Susan Herring, "Two Variants of an Electronic Message Schema" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

Week Six //

Social perspective on CMC

·  Carol J. Adams, "'This Is Not Our Fathers' Pornography': Sex, Lies, and Computers" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Sunh-Hee Yoon, "Power Online: A Poststructuralist Perspective on CMC" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Charles Ess, "The Political Computer: Democracy, CMC, and Habermas" in Ess, Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Peter Kollock and Marc Smith, "Managing the Virtual Commons: Cooperation and Conflict in Computer Commmunities" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Nancy R. Deuel, "Our Passionate Response to Virtual Reality" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Kira Hall, "Cyberfeminism" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

Week Seven //

Cross-cultural perspective on CMC

·  Ringo Ma, "Computer-Mediated Conversations as a New Dimension of Intercultural Communication between East Asian and North American College Students" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Mary Elaine Meagher and Fernando Castanos, "Perceptions of American Culture: The Impact of an Electronically-Mediated Cultural Exchange Program on Mexican High School Students" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

·  Gregory G. Colomb and Joyce A. Simutis, "Visible Conversation and Academic Inquiry: CMC in a Culturally Diverse Classroom" in Herring, Computer-Mediated Communication.

 

THE JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION

 

Computer-Mediated-Communication and Relationships

Pew Internet and American Life Project

A series of studies conducted by the Pew Organization reflect the use if the Internet in interpersonal communications. Of special note are the studies of Teenage Live Online, Online Communities and Wired Seniors. The full text of each of these can be downloaded as a .pdf file.

this course looks at the internet from the perspective of interpersonal communication and examines

online indentities, relationships and communities.

 . http://faculty.washington.edu/thurlow/teaching/com482/

 

Interpersonal Communication on the Internet
                 Comm 385/585 on-line 
                         Spring 2004 http://www.uwsp.edu/comm/jmoe/385ext/