FTS Syllabus

The Internet: Communication Culture and Change

New and Improved

Daily Syllabus

Sept 7 Course Introduction
Sept 8 Research and Writing
Sept 11 Communication--What & How?
Sept 12 Internet--What? Why? When? Where? Who?

How America Uses the Net 2000.
Sue Ferguson. (May 29, 2000). The Wired Teen. Maclean's, p.. 38.

Sept 14 Internet Communication--Discuss Ch. 1
Sept 15 Project Day
Sept 18 Presentation--Study
Sept 19 Internet Communication--Discuss Chs. 2 & 3
Sept 21 Overview of Issues--Project Topic Reports
Sept 22 Flex Day
Sept 25 Researching and Writing--Internet Research      Appendix
Sept 26 Communication and the Internet—Discuss Ch. 4
Sept 28 Library
                           Library Nite—Work on your topic from 7-8
Sept 29 Advising Day
Oct    2 Communication and the Internet—Discuss Ch. 5
                **Proposal Due**
Oct    3 Nobel
Oct    5 Communication and the Internet—Discuss Ch. 6
Oct    6 Project Check
Oct    9 Identity and Gender—Discuss Ch. 7
Oct 10 Presentation--Community Service Office, Kari Lipke
Oct 12 Identity and Gender

Herb Brody. (February/March 1996). Session with the Cybershrink: An Interview with Sherry Turkle. Technology Review.

Elizabeth Lane Lawley. (April 1993). Computers and the Communication of Gender.

**Issue Paper Draft Due**
Oct 13 Flex Day
Oct 16 Government and Corporations—Discuss Ch. 8
Oct 17 First Presentation
Oct 19 First Presentation
**Issue Paper Due**
Oct 20 Reading Day
Oct 23 Reading Day
Oct 24 Communities on the Internet

Amy Bruckman. (January 1996). Finding One’s Own in Cybersace. Technology Review.

Check out some discussion boards. There are many on popular tv shows, health concerns, current events, etc. Choose something you are interested in, put the topic and 'discussion board' or 'discussion group' in Yahoo! We will discuss finding other sites in class.

Oct 26 Communities Continued

Dialog on Virtual Communities. FEED Magazine.

Oct 27 Presentation--Counseling Center--Jackie Alvarez
Oct 30 Communities
Oct 31 Social Action

Ed Schwartz. NetActivism: How Citizens Use the Internet.

Howard Frederick. (1992). Computer Networks and the Emergence of Global Civil Society: The Case of the Association for Progressive Communications.

Nov 2 Democracy, Government, and Corporations
Political Action Links:

Nov 3 Relationships

Tracking Online Life: How Women Use the Internet to Cultivate Relationships with Family and Friends. Pew Internet and American Life Project. May 10, 2000.
Joellen Perry. (February 28, 2000). Only the cyberlonely. U.S. News & World Report, p. 62.

Nov 6 Relationships

Mary Beth Rosson (1999). I Get By With A Little Help From My Cyber-Friends: Sharing Stories of Good and Bad Times on the Web. JCMC 4 (4).

Malcolm R. Parks & Kory Floyd. (1996). Making Friends in Cyberspace. In a special joint issue of Journal of Communication, 46, (1), and Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 1, (4).

Nov 7 Legality and Censorship--Pornography

Additional Resources:

The Cyberporn Debate.

THE CYBERPORN REPORT.

Nov 9 NCA
Nov 10 NCA
Nov 13 Advising Day
Nov 14 Legality and Censorship—Hate

Commission on Online Child Protection Report -- Review Recommendations
American Civil Liberties Union. Virginia Court Says Internet Blocking for Adult Library Users is Unconstitutional
Setttingcaptivesfree.com A site devoted to online porn addiction
HateWatch. Organization exposing hate on the web. Check out a few of the hate groups.
Peacefire. A teen organization opposed to Internet censorship.

Nov 16 Policing and Security

Trust and Privacy Online: Why Americans Want to Rewrite the Rules. Pew Internet and American Life Project. August 20, 2000
LANCE GAY. Internet 'spyware' programs worry privacy advocates. Sacramento Bee. Aug 23, 2000
American Civil Liberties Union. Protect Internet and Telephone Privacy!

**Essay Due**

Nov 17 Presentation: Career Center, Jeff Stocco

Nov 20 Access

Rand Corporation. Universal Access to E-Mail: Feasibility and Societal Implications.
U.S. Department of Commerce. (1995). FALLING THROUGH THE NET: A Survey of the "Have Nots" in Rural and Urban America.

Nov 21 Access

Nov 23 Thanksgiving
Nov 24 Thanksgiving Break

Nov 27 Education

Nov 28 Education

Nov 30 Presentation: International Education--Carole Moline

Dec 1 Flex Day

Dec   4 Final Presentations
Dec   5 Final Presentations
Dec   7 Final Presentations
            **Rough Draft of Position Paper Due**

Dec 8 Final Presentations

Dec 11 Internet Communication and the Future

Critical Art Ensemble. Utopian Promises—Net Realities.
Neil Postman. (1990). Informing Ourselves to Death. Paper presented at a meeting of the German Informatics Society on October 11, 1990.

Dec 12 Final Paper Chat--The Great Debate

Dec 18 (Monday)—Position Paper Due