Final Paper

Here is my final paper Finish the Diss Syllabus

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Slides: Weeks 8-12

Week 8: Social media Week 9: Tech Ethics Week 10: Platform Capitalism Week 11: Commodification of Information Week 12: Publics & Manifesto Outlines    

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Hypothes.is & Annotation Directions

TLDR Sign up and login to Hypothesis Join our CAC Workshop Annotation Group Annotate Articles in Course Schedule Annotation Sidebar will appear on right side of articles Throughout the semester we will be annotating several articles with an online tool called Hypothes.is. Hypothes.is can be used publicly or in private-facing groups. We will be annotating […]

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Week 2 Prompts

By Tuesday, February 6th: READ “What-is-Web-2.0” by Tim O’Reilly in The Social Media Reader, Mandiberg, M. (Eds). New York: New York University Press. Creative Commons, BY SA NC. (2012)  “Digital”  By Tara McPherson, Keywords for American Cultural Studies. NYU Press (2014) By Thursday, February 8th: Create Post #2: But really, what is Web 2.0? Find an example that demonstrates […]

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Week 1 Post Prompt

Read: The 5 Cs: “The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework” by  Linda Friedman, Hershey Freidman (2008) Create Post for Week #1: Find and link to an example* of the 5 Cs we discussed in class. Choose a unique title for your post. In your post, describe how your example demonstrates the 5 Cs. End your […]

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Tech Ethics

Tristan Harris runs the Center for Humane Technology where he, focuses on realigning technology with a clear-eyed model of human nature. And befire that he was a design ethicist at Google where he studied the ethics of human persuasion. The ideas that Harris present are “I think that’s the thing that we both share is […]

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Publics

The article “Issues Spark a Public Into Being” is about democracy and how its all about subjects. The article sheds light on how Democracy can be confusing and a little jacked up but it is still beautiful and should be fine tuned. “To acknowledge the role that the problems that affect people playing bringing politics […]

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Critical Sociology

Adiar Stephen expresses that “The size of the potential market for information commodities is not limited by productive capacity.”. This is supported by Adiar when he states that multiple companies have given away free software in order to have a large market, with increased demand on their products. However, according to Adiar, no matter what […]

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Friday Jan 28: Class Cancelled Due to Snow

Please read XYZ Link to reading   By Sunday Jan 30th: Create a post to respond to the following Prompts. Categorize the post as “Snow Day” What themes are….

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