Week 15: Political Parody on the Web

WEB: www.jibjab.com

READ:

Warnick, Barbara “Parody With a Purpose” from Critical Literacy in a Digital Era (2002 Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers) (on ICON)

Chadwick, Chapter 13: “Conclusion: The Future of Internet Politics”

Last posts! Make them good!

Week 14: Video Games and Politics

Read:

Lee, Shuen-shing: ""I Lose, Therefore I Think": A Search for Contemplation amid Wars of Push-Button Glare." in Game Studies, Volume 3, issue 2. (available here: http://www.gamestudies.org/0302/lee/)


Play:

http://www.mcvideogame.com/

http://www.newsgaming.com/newsgames.htm

Post your thoughts and questions!

Week 13: Hacktivism Part 2

Hope everyone is ok after the tornado this week - be sure to get in touch with me if you have been displaced and need some work accommodations for the rest of the course.

Website: http://www.thehacktivist.com

All of the readings for this week are available online. They total about 5 pages.

Read:
1. ECD - ALL HACKERS... (http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=04/08/17/5013771) or on ICON

2. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html)

3. The Electrohippie Collective: Online Civil Rights After September 11th (http://www.iwar.org.uk/hackers/resources/electrohippies-collective/op4.pdf)

What, if anything, do these readings suggest about hacktivism that you didn't get from last week's readings?

Week 12: Hacktivism Part 1

WEB: Hacktivismo (http://hacktivismo.com/)


READ:
-Tim Jordan: “Hacktivism: All Together in the Virtual” from Activism!
-Tim Jordan and Paul A. Taylor: “Hacking and Hacktivism”, “Hacktivism: Informational Politics for Informational Times” from Hacktivism and Cyberwars: Rebels With a Cause?

Both readings are on ICON.

Post Away!

Week 11: Blogs

WEBSITE:
Rebecca Blood: “Weblogs: A History and Perspective” (http://www.rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html)

READINGS:
From the McKinnon reading (available on ICON), read pages 11-48 for Tuesday, and read pages 63-78 for Thursday.

There are lots of questions raised by the conference participants. Which of these did you find most compelling? Were you satisfied with the answers provided? Are there blog related questions you have that you DON'T see raised in these proceedings?

Week 10: MoveOn and counter-culture

Website: http://moveon.org/

Readings:

Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner: “Internet Subcultures and Oppositional Politics” from The Post Sub-Cultures Reader

Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner: “New Media and Internet Activism: from ‘The Battle of Seattle’ to Blogging” (New Media and Society, 2004)

Boyd, Andrew. “The Web ReWires the Movement” (from The Nation 08/04/2003) http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030804/boyd


This week, raise your own questions about the articles. Tie them to the MoveOn site if you'd like, but I want the focus of your posts to be on the Kahn and Kellner/Boyd readings.

Week 9: Local Politics

Readings for this week (on ICON):

Chadwick, Chapter 3: “Access, Inclusion, and the Digital Divide”

Papcharissiz, ZiZi. “The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere” (New Media and Society, 2002)

For a website, check out a local governement websites from your hometown and do a little bit of critique. How do they tie in to the articles, if it all?