Week five and six (vacation coming)

Critical decade lecture

Online class: netiquette, language, metaphors

brainstorm – good and bad about internet, how has it changed people (us) psychologically/mentally (have we become more self-aware and introspective, or withdrawn and self-absorbed. When we are online are happy, and generally satisfied with ourselves or are we overwhelmed by the technology and feel generally unfulfilled), how has it impacted us sociologically/interpersonal (have we become more isolated and self-centered or more engaged with others, or with different types or range of “others”)

spiral back: view syllabus goals (matrix grid), thinking maps outline of content, course themes surfacing

metaphors (computer: desktop, folders, files also Microsoft use of office suite like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Front Page; internet: space, architecture, chat room also web with spiders)

impact upon our use of language: web 2.0, email, Itunes, pod

Themes:

attitudes of entrepreneurs and innovators –

showing off (hobbyists, hackers),

saving the world (Jobs),

new ways of thinking (dramatic growth, long term – Amazon and naturally speaking, futurism),

changing of rules (hypertext – nonlinear, multidimensional arrangement of information, new business models such as little or no inventory and no storefront, importance of branding, regular upgrades),

upsetting of established order (1984 commercial),

big money and equal opportunity (Netscape IPO, college students such as Bill Gates, Shaun Fanning, Blake Ross, Sergy Brin, Marc Andreeson),

competitiveness and sharing paradox (free software, database),

metaphors = pirates, wild west (Electronic Freedom Foundation), gold rush (stock market boom and bust), level playing field (publishers through Amazon, ebay), generational change (sixties)

attitudes of users – networks of relationships, communities of interests, mutations and extensions of self, excessiveness and abuse, web 2.0 metaphors = (psychology) multiple personalities, addiction and abuse, netiquette, generational change (virtual reality)

As a media source – exaggerates impact, magnification and amplification (spam) broadens reach, Amazon example

Communications lecture: Intrapersonal Communication, Infomatics, Attribution Theory, Relationship Dialectics, Internet play, cognitive dissonance

Change lecture: Diffusion of Innovation, disruptive technology, early adopters, technological determinism, Tipping Point, autocatalytic change

Disruptive technology – second phase innovation, hard middle, insurmountable opportunities

Midterm prep – jigsaw?

Spiral back to history of PC and history of Internet possible test questions

Draw from textbook – metaphors, multiple identities

second life,

Grade presentations

Show Eliza,

HTML - web editor example

Week 4

History of Internet – Thinking Map - morphs from computation to communication

Notes: IBM and ATT didn’t bid for ARPANET contract, BBN is were packets are born (postcards, not letters), 1972 20 locations, @ invented at BBN, Sun the first LAN, Novell adds printer and increase of scale, 3com learns about Ethernet from PARC, less of the financially competitiveness (not sure there was money to be made in this work), generally developed open standards, Stanford influence (Sun, Cisco, Silicon Graphics), infighting picks up, Microsoft goes after Novell, joins up with 3com but then splits up with them around the same time as IBM split – all very messy, John Doerr of Kleiner, Perkins, Sun also develops Java programming language

Terms: ARPANET, standards, Sun workstation (the network is the computer), give it away business model, autocatalytic change, four risks of venture capitalist (people, market, technical, financial)

Terms from last week (see website)

Proprietary, venture capitalists, killer ap, reverse engineering, incompatibility

CMC, cyberspace, browser wars, 1984/post-beige, smart mob/social network, synchronous/asynchronous communication, hypertext/hypertextuality

(HTML - web editor example)

Metaphors – maybe combine this with online experience

To plan further:

Online Class experience, avatars (second life)

Critical Decade lecture

Communication Lecture

Change Lecture

Spiral back to history of PC and history of Internet possible test questions

Week three and four

IM, Facebook accounts, etc.

Finish History of PC

Course website – note terms, podcast, planning notes and credit/debit accounts, check out Dear Netty entries (note time of entries, quality of entries, be careful not to be too long, spelling, real answers)

Review and sign up for blogs

Review key innovator presentation and signup for topic choice, send models, review Torvalds model

HTML – notepad basics, source code, web editor example

Visit to server room and router

Pirates of Silicon Valley – see term list

History of Internet – Thinking Map

To do:

Search Strategies planning

Search strategies and effectiveness

Topics

1) efficiency – library search list, search engine choices, keywords, quotes

2) credibility – academic research tips (develop these further)

Online Class experience, avatars (second life)

Change Lecture