Required Reading for Monday 9 April, Weblog Entry for Friday 13 April

The week of April 9 to 13 we will discuss NITs in relation to surveillance. Please read The Surveillance Society from Wired magazine. For this week (due 13 April) you should write a weblog entry discussing some aspect of the “surveillance society.”

Reading for 12 February; Weblog for 16 February

First a couple of reminders: Your weblog assignment for this week is due today. And a reading assignment is coming due: Your reading for this coming Monday 12 February is chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 in “We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information.” The report is available at the [...]

Required Reading for 5 February through 19 February

For 5 February, please read Jonathan Dube’s article, RSS for Journalists and look at his Bloglines links for journalists. Also read the Wikipedia entry on web feeds.
For the following two weeks we will be reading “We Media: How Audiences are Shaping the Future of News and Information.” The report is available at the We Media [...]

Required Reading for Monday 29 January

For Monday 29 January, please read Blogging as a Form of Journalism and Weblogs: a New Source of News, both of which are from Online Journalism Review and by J.D. Lasica.

Required Reading for Monday 22 January

For Monday 22 January, read the Wikipedia entry “blog” and spend 30 minutes exploring the kazakhstan.neweurasia.net weblog.