This
week we explore
political activism on the Internet and its impact on mass
media and political communications. We also look at smart mobs: emerging
forms of technology-enabled collective actions, focusing on wikipedia,
blogging, online forums and other emerging media forms such as podcasting,
photo-sharing, tagging, RSS, and wiki-based communities.
Readings:
Leister et. al. Chapter 5: Cyberculture: Technology, Nature, and Culture
The Hive, by Marshall Pole The Atlantic Monthly,September
2006
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia
( Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an
online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative
knowledge)
Web sites:
Tracing the Evolution of Social Software
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/10/tracing_the_evo.html