Final student presentations tonight!

• Student Presentations
• Housekeeping

Student Presentations

Distributed Feedback:
Provide feedback on content, how well slides integrate with content, relevance to class/course.
Group 1: Brian, Jeff, Pei-Chieh, Suna, Yu-Hsaun
Group 2: Christy, Jen, Peter, Vera, YunLi
Group 3: Filiz, Michael, Rene, Xioquy

1. Brian

Saving What Matters

2. Christy

Evolution of Internal Communication

3. Filiz

Evolution of Stock Photography

4. Jeff

Connectivity Wants To Be Free

5. Jen

Walkman to iPod

6. Michael

Blogs and Tribal Formation of NFL Fans

7. Pei-Chieh

Presentation Marketing

8. Peter

How Health Information Will Save Your Life

9. Renee

Digital Audio Workstations

10. Suna

NonProfit Communication Using Technology

11. Vera

Word’s Journey

12. Xiaoqy

Evolution of the Cell Phone

13. Yu-Hsuan

Final Presentation

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14. Yun Li

Technology and Distance Learning

Housekeeping

• Final Deliverables
  • Projects will be published as stand-alone (or integrated) WordPress websites;
  • Final presentations will be published on Slideshare.net
  • Final presentations uploaded to Catalyst CollectIt
  • Final project cited and linked in a blog post on your course blog NLT 18 March (6.00 pm)
• Annotated bibliography (examples, tips)
• Sample project (Chris, Rubi)
• Questions about final deliverables?
• Gradesheet updated
• Evaluation forms

Agenda:

• Guest Speaker: Tom Farmer, Solid State Information Design, on the future of “television”
• Student Presentations:
  Chris, Harry, Matt, Paolo, Rebekkah, Ross, Rubi, Vera, Ziwen
• Setting Up WordPress for final project
• Related Links:
  • For fun: A Completely Unscientific (Yet Accurate) Look At Social Sites
  • More serious: Rogue Archivist Campaigns To Be Obama’s Printer

Tom Farmer

I’ll be experimenting with my new “Pulse Pen” as I take notes.

Student Presentations

Distributed Feedback:
Provide feedback on content, how well slides integrate with content, relevance to class/course.
Group 1: Chris, Paolo, Rubi
Group 2: Harry, Rebekah, ZiWen
Group 3: Matt, Ross, Chao-Wei

Chris

Blog post: The Past, Present, and Future of Online Communities

Harry

Blog post: Penny Press to Digital – does history repeat itself?

Matt

Blog post: ElectronicDating.wordpress.com

Paolo

Blog post: Copyright Law and Music

Rebekkah

Blog post: Crafting Community

Ross

Blog post: What Is The Business of Public Radio?

Rubi

Blog post: Past, Present and Future of the Telephony in Mexico

Ziwen

Blog post: Cellphones in China

Chao-Wei

Blog post

slideshare

Setting Up WordPress Project Site

General Instructions:

1. Recognize that each “page” of the site needs context — this is one reason why I had you write two papers, so that each could “stand alone”
2. The annotated bibliography is its own page
3. Each page of the project (a minimum of two, past & present-future) should have its own sources cited at the bottom. Remember: no need for hanging indents but please use APA for narrative citing format and for the reference list

Stand-Alone Site
Rationale: experience using WordPress as a content management system for a website, not a blog. Minimum number of pages: past, present-future, annotated bibliography, about, (unused) blog

1. Log In
2. Go to WordPress.com
3. Left hand column, look for “Register another blog“
   
4. Pick a name
5. Pick a design that is very readable
6. Widgets: Pages, Blogroll (Links), Meta. Unless you are going to use this as a site to blog about the topic, you won’t want any widgets related to blogging. Use Blogroll (Links) to provide links to your blog, this site, other resources related to your topic.
7. Create a stand-alone page for the home page
   • Pages -> New -> Home
   • Pages -> New -> Blog
   • Settings -> Reading -> Front Page Displays …
8. Provide information on the “about” page about you and this project/course
9. Recognize that each “page” of the site needs context — this is one reason why I had you write two papers, so that each could “stand alone”
10. The annotated bibliography is its own page
11. Each page of the project (a minimum of two, past & present-future) should have its own sources cited at the bottom. Remember: no need for hanging indents but please use APA for narrative citing format and for the reference list

Integrated Site:
If you want everything in one place, and want this paper to be a “sub-section” of your course blog. Minimum number of pages: “home” (contents), past, present-future, annotated bibliography

1. Log In
2. Make sure that your blog design is very readable for long blocks of text (light on dark does not meet this requirement)
3. Provide information on the “about” page about you
4. Create a new page that will be the project home; provide information on this page about the project/course; provide links to the project parts (past, present-future, annotated bibliography)
5. Create the pages that are for the project; each will have, as it parent page, the project home page:
   

Peter’s famous!

• Guest Speaker: Tom Farmer
• Student Presentations
• Converting papers to stand-alone WordPress.com site

Guest Speaker

Student Presentations

1. Chris
2. Harry
3. Matt
4. Paolo
5. Rebekkah
6. Ross
7. Rubi
8. Vera
9. Ziwen

Thinking About The Future (1)

• Guest Speaker, John Musser, ProgrammableWeb, on cloud computing
• MiniLecture
• Class Discussion
• About Weeks 9 & 10

Housekeeping

Second paper (present/future) due Wed 4 March, 11.45pm
(Paper: Collect-It document, feedback given and points assigned)

Draft presentation due 27 February, noon
(Presentation: Collect-It, feedback given and points assigned. Week 9 students take priority, obviously)

Looking for a volunteer from week 10 to present Week 9!

Guest Speaker

• John’s Slides (ppt)

Mini Lecture

• Wired article
• Slides

Class Discussion

• Your Questions

Discussion Leaders

• Jen
• Matthew
• Michael
• YuHsuan
• XiaoYe

Post-Discussion Reflections (Last Week)

• Chao-Wei
• Chris
• Paolo
• Peter
• Vera

Reading Reflections This Week

• Brian – Media Monoploy: You Landed on the Television Industry, Rent is…. Your Soul
• Christy – Preserving Crucial Records
• Filiz – Preserving For The Future
• Filiz – (EC) Instant Messaging v E-mail
• Harry – Paper to Pixels
• Matthew – Ethics of the Future
• Michael – Media Monopoly
• Peter – Notes on Breaking the Wire (Seeing What’s Next) (com546)
• Rebekah – The Paperless Office? Not Anytime Soon.
• Rubi – Should Archivist Be Concerned About Electronic Storage?
• Vera – Media Monopoly
• YunLi – On “Telematics and Informatics” and “The Media Monopoly”
• ZiWen – Media Monopoly

Here are the questions for this week:

• Brian:
  1. Why shouldn’t governments/colleges/institutions keep every record possible?

  2. Should the US government control other methods of communication like it does with the radio spectrum? [CLOSED] Why or why wouldn’t this be in the interest of US citizens?

  3. Does new technology actually degrade the family unit or is it just the usage that degrades the family unit? [CLOSED] Why is this a recurring theme with technology?

• Chao-Wei

  1. In response to “Afterword: Media Monopoly”, the competition between media has become much severer than the time when the essay was published. No matter the quantity of media increased or the invasion of new media all result in tense competition. What is the best way for major media to explain to the public that commercialize is the necessary evil for surviving the awful environment?

  2. The influence of major media has decreased a lot since the Internet came into play. How do major media re-position their roles in this new environment as a way to regain their significance?

  3. How do major media strike a balance between commercialization and public interests?

• Christy:

  1) If the information discussed is so crucial, why wasn’t it’s archival discussed before it was only documented online-only?

  2) How does the tough decision of what to keep and what to throw-away in the digital world differ from the hard-copy world? Presumably the same decision must be made considering physical documents. Based on what records needed to be kept pre-Internet, it seems as though it would be fairly simple to know what online documents to print and archive.

  3) Do we really need archived documentation of these items? [CLOSED] Our culture (and that of Sweden and Germany) value written documentation much more than other countries. In areas like the Middle East, word-of-mouth agreements are valued with the same emphasis we place on written legal documents.

  4) Why would you agree or disagree with the importance placed on keeping long-term records of grades? If they were archived for a year or two, wouldn’t that be sufficient?

  5) Why not just print out copies of anything that needs to be archived?

• Pei-Chieh
  Q1. How Christensen’s the disruptive theory will be applied to the ecords-management for archivists?
  Q2. With the development of technology, how media will continues its monopolization or diversification?
  Q3. How does/might WiFi technology  affect NTT DoCoMo service in Japan? How might the adoption of WiFi  be different based on different culture?
• Ross:

  1. Broadcast television has lost viewers and market share since Bagdikian’s book was published. What is the current state of the media monopoly?

  2. Bagdikian wrotes approvingly of the Fairness Doctrine, a Federal Communications Rule which required broadcasters to air both sides of a controversial issues. Broadcasters pressured the Federal Communications Commission to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, paving the way for politically one-sided talk radio formats. What are the best reasons to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine?

  3. What are the best reasons to not reinstate the Fairness Doctrine?

• Suna:

  1. In the Afterward of The Media Monopoly, Bagdikian states that
  “Television produced a radical transformation in the way American families arranged their lives.” How is this different from how mass radio changed people’s lives?

  2. Will websites ever have the requirement to “act in the public interest” like television stations do? [CLOSED] Is it possible? [CLOSED]

  3. Have attitudes changed toward archiving of media, now that media has become more electronic and thus more ephemeral? [CLOSED] Is it necessary? [CLOSED]

• YuHsuan

  1. Today digital technologies are so pervasive that the storage medium for digitized data is getting comparative crucial. What kinds of mediums are robust, cost effective, long-lasting and efficient enough to store large amount of “individual” digitized data? How about DVDs, hard disks, microfilms or something else?
  2. Nippon Hoso Kyokai (NHK) is working well in Japan and BBC is fruitful in the UK as well. All these are initiated in the United States but prosperous in other countries instead. Why these creative systems couldn’t practice well in the United States? What policies or regulations should a government follow or enforce to assist the media industry?

  3. How the culture factor will affect the gratification-opportunities in predicting new media usages? Just like the Apple’s Mac is so popular in western countries but not in Asia.

Per listserv email:

Hi folks!

(1) I forgot to remind everyone last night to please provide feedback to one of the three discussion leader presenters (per the past three weeks) as well as to the person you did not hear (read and comment). For the presenters, please pick one of your peers to read& comment.

(2) Week 9 & 10 – presentations
Each student will have 8-10 minutes to present; there will be time for 2-3 minutes discussion. If you like, we can order-in pizza one or both weeks (please bring cash to chip in).

The schedule for Weeks 9 & 10 is on the home page & the students page:

Week 9
:: Chris, Harry, Matt, Paolo, Renee, Rebekkah, Rubi, Vera, Ziwen

Week 10
:: Brian, Chao-Wei,  Christy,  Filiz, Jeff, Jen,  Michael, Pei-Chieh, Peter, Ross, Suna, Yu-Hsuan, Yun Li, Xiaoqy

(3) The gradesheet has been refreshed to show readings and discussion leaders through week 6 (last week).

(4) Rubi was correct – I should have started last night with the positive rather than the negative. I was trying (not successfully, perhaps) to show that there were common issues, so that if one of those was identified on your paper, you wouldn’t feel like you were the only person.

Look for an email from me later today with your paper attached (Word doc). Be sure to turn the comments feature “on” to read the comments!

Frameworks and Theories: Computer-Mediated Communication and Hypertext

• Guest Speaker: Warren Sukernek (twitter), Director of Content Marketing – Radian6
• Discussion Leader Group 4
• Theoretical Review/Exercise
• Housekeeping

Discussion Leaders

Notes from Warren’s talk:

• Radian6.com – favorites for word-of-mouth
• Facebook controversy : New privacy rules under fire; EPIC prepares lawsuit on Facebook privacy policy

A note about learning (which I should have shared week 1)

• Chao-Wei (abstract, slides, video)
• Vera
• Paolo
• Peter

Last week’s DL post-class reflection

• Pei-Chieh
• Rebekah
• Ross
• Yun Li

Possible group questions:

• How does the concept of the “tragedy of the commons” apply in a digital world where the commons exists of zeroes and ones?
• Facebook, as becoming our social capital tool, follows a path from offline to online in building social networks. By this means, since our offline and online presence are perceived as one, what makes an online political activity different from the offline one?
• How might digital technologies make it profitable for firms to be socially responsible? How might these technologies empower consumers to reward socially responsible firms?

Theoretical Review/Exercise

A look at the VCR.

• 10 Minutes:
  Read: With shift to digital TV, how long can VCRs stay afloat?
  As you read, think about Christensen, Rogers and Winston.
  List the theories or conceptual ideas from the course that are embodied in this article.
  Answer the question!
• Discuss in threes
• Discuss at large

Housekeeping: Papers

Posts (NCR) to read:

• Christy
• Ross

To Make Mine & Meg’s Lives Easier:

• Readability: no justified type!
• Submit papers as WordDoc (not pdf) with yourName_paper_no as the file name.
• See range of word counts

Grammatical Areas For Improvement (Common Mistakes)

• Passive tense
• Verb-noun agreement
• Punctuation (comma splices; 1900s not 1900’s … it is plural, not possessive!)
• Missing bridges between ideas
• Super-long (or super-short) sentences/paragraphs. Each paragraph should be one idea. Sentences, generally speaking, should have one idea and be short enough for the reader to breathe while reading! Single-sentence paragraphs do not usually fit this writing style.

Structural Areas For Improvement (Common Mistakes)

• Lack of clear structure for paper: the structure is a formula … introduction, usually three points, conclusion. Tell the reader what you are going to argue (your thesis) and how (part 1, part 2, part 3 of this paper) in the introduction.
• Lack of clear thesis statement/introduction.
• Lack of clear timeline/boundaries (what is the past, the present, the future).
• Conclusion does not reframe introduction (impossible to do if there is no clear introduction!). Conclusions rest on evidence presented in the paper, no citations in the best conclusion — it’s your own words.
• Lack of evidence for claims (data are the most persuasive; failing in that, cite someone). Unless a “fact” is common knowledge, it should be credited, where it is in the paper (there may be multiple citations in one paragraph). Any claim (argument) that you make should either follow from the evidence you have presented up to that point or be credited to someone else who made that claim.
• Missing linkage between facts and rationale. Why did xyz happen? Why is xyz important in the scheme of your paper? How did xyz’s happening link to a theory or concept discussed in this (or in some other) class?

Citing Sources (Common Mistakes)

• Wikipedia is a good place to start with research but is usually not the best (most credible) source. Exceptions may be definitions and very new technological innovations (which should not have been in this paper!).
• References cited should be in alphabetical order by author’s last name (or title, in the event of a source cited in that manner)
• References are single-spaced with double-space between each source.
• In-line citations: we discussed in class the method is (LastName, date). If you want to talk about someone’s book, the first time you reference that person, please use FirstName LastName (year) in the sentence. After that, it’s OK (to me, maybe not to APA) to use LastName if there is only one reference by this person; in that case, it’s LastName (date).
• Remember to include the “retrieve date” for all electronic resources.
• Credit images separately, if you decide to use images in the web version of this paper, but be sure to credit them.
• Each paper contains a cited reference list. In your annotated bibliography, you may include sources that you found but that you did not use in your paper. When the source is used in the paper, part of the annotation is an explanation of how it is used.

Example – Ross (pdf)

Example – concise introduction:

In an era where “Google” is a verb and almost any type of information can be found on sites like How.com or Wikipedia.org, it can be easy to forget how people learned skills and created communities of common interest before the internet. This paper will examine how people who created quilts, needlework, and other crafts communicated with each other before the internet and how their communication and craft influenced and developed their community. Specifically this paper will discuss why crafting was important, how women learned skills and techniques, and ways that information was shared through the use of patterns. It will then examine how women gathered based on a common interest in crafting and, as a result, created a community that became a powerful influencer in fundraising, civil rights, and the war effort. Finally the paper will discuss the financial value women found in handmade items versus those that were store-bought.

Example – multiple sources in one paragraph (synthesis):

Because of copyright law, music can be a product to be bought and sold like any product – this is the cornerstone for the U.S. music economy. However, copyright law’s existence doesn’t come without challenges. As University of Massachusetts professor Reebee Garofalo (2004) observes: “Since its inception, copyright has never simply been an exclusive contract to exploit the fruits of one’s creativity, but rather a balancing act, weighting the legal protection of intellectual property against the public rights of access to information and freedom of expression” (Frith, 2004, p. 90). Because copyright both protects musicians’ work and limits public access to these works, copyright law embodies a dichotomy that Garofalo (2004) approaches somewhat cynically. She asks, “Is copyright law really a means of protecting composers from exploitation? Or is it better understood as a mechanism through which the loosely collective and inter-textual tradition of popular music-making… is straight-jacketed by the legal structure of the market economy?” (Frith, 2004, p. 2) Regardless of perspective about whose best interests copyright law serves, there is no question that it is central to the U.S. music industry.

Example – scope:

The first section of this historical analysis begins around 1920 and continues to the mid to late 1990s when the proliferation of internet access in American households provided tribe members with opportunities to take ownership of the production, sharing and consumption of information than was possible given the structural models of mass media communications technologies like the radio and television. The year 1920 is a logical place to begin because it happened to be the year that the first sporting event was broadcast to a mass audience, albeit an event other than football. It was also the first year that the professional football league that would soon be re-named the National Football League (NFL) formalized its operations.

Though the most basic psychological needs of group and identity formation would not be satisfactorily met by the communication platforms of the radio and the television, it was their emergence in American society that first gave rise to a larger audience hungry to consume media related to the game more generally, and to their adopted teams of choice more specifically. Communication theory will be applied in the second part of this project to highlight the importance of this re-structuring of control for tribe members collectively and individually, but for this paper it is beyond the scope of what is discussed.

Example:

Content of tonight’s email:

(1) I have changed the due date for the first paper on the home page and Catalyst tools to Thursday at 9 pm.

(2) Extra-Credit Opportunities
Many of you have asked about extra credit opportunities. The answer is yes and is two-fold:

(a) As mentioned in class (and I think in email) you can write extra questions (beyond the two sets required)

(b) You can participate both in- and out of class (more commenting than asked by me). I’ll need you to provide some documentation for this (also, if you do not speak up in class, you should be commenting outside of class … and please provide me with some documentation).

(c) You can post two reading essays the next two weeks (instead of the one that is required).

(3) I forgot to click “submit” last night, so I had to recreate your thoughts from my memory. Take a look — if I missed your group’s contribution (not really an “if”) consider appending it — or anything you’ve thought of in the interim — as another comment.

(dadgumit – my second set did not post either!)

http://com546.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/week-6-class-notes-2/

From Mass Communication To Customized Information

• Guest Speaker, Monica Guzman (twitter), Seattle P-I
• Discussion (Group 3)
• General Discussion
• Housekeeping

Monica Links

• Time Magazine article
• BigBlog
• West Seattle Blog
• Newcastle City Blog
• Eat Sleep Publish
• BBC opens archives (2003)
• How should be finance the BBC (2008)
• ProPublica

Discussion Leaders

1. Chris
2. Pei-Chieh
3. Rebekah
4. Ross
5. Yun Li

Questions:

• How do we change policy to better support new public opinion while still protecting the privileges of those whose past rights are becoming violated, essentially, by new public opinion?
• Fidler states that the mass markets that the national radio broadcast networks created helped to reinforce ethnic, racial and religious segregation in the United States. In the VERY next sentence he writes, ‘as the networks consolidated their power, they became much more than a unifying force for the nation.’ Then goes on to talk about creation of consumer society. I suppose I feel like there should have been a much more detailed explanation about how the national networks helped to reinforce segregation. Explanations from the class as to how this happened?
• There has been no discussion in any of the readings – unless I’m forgetting something pertinent, which is possible – about the business models of the telegraph industry. The models of the newspaper, radio and television industries have been discusses thoroughly in multiple readings; and the history of the telegraph and its central role in the history of communications systems has been touched upon in more than one week’s readings. But I’ve yet to see much analysis about how the economics of the telegraph. What was its business model, how did it evolve and how did its business model effect communications systems?
• How similar is early radio broadcasting to Twitter or blogging?

(Technology + Culture)

(1) Pennsylvania 6-5000 (1939)

(2) Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (1973)

(3) 867-5309 (1982)

Current examples???

• Can You Hear Me Now?
• Pomegranate Smartphone (Google Cache)

Housekeeping

• Grade sheet updated
• Demo Catalyst Collect-It
• Due date for 1st paper – 11.45 Wed night. Suggest moving to 9 pm Th if everyone promises to have someone else read their paper beforehand! [Note: if I specifically asked you do to this in book review feedback, you have an extension.]
• Exemplary Book Reviews – please read them!

Exemplary Book Reviews
Read to see how other students integrate course material into their writing as well as for examples of writing that flows well.

• Christy
• Peter
• Rebekah
• Yu-Hsuan