APLNG 083S: Communication and the Internet

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Week Date Themes, Readings, and Recommended Readings Activities/Notes
Week 1 09/02 Introductions, overview of the course, Internet themes and possibilities Orientation to the course and course materials

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Week 2 09/07 Theme 1: Internet Info and (Virtual) Community
  1. Computer-mediated Communication: A definition of terms from Webopedia.com
  2. "What is" the Internet from whatis.com:
  3. Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The Virtual Community. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.

Recommended:

  1. Erickson, Thomas. (1997). Social Interaction on the Net: Virtual Community as Participatory Genre. In Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science. (ed. J. F. Nunamaker, Jr. R. H. Sprague, Jr.) Vol 6, pp. 23-30. IEEE Computer Society Press: Los Alamitos, CA, 1997. http://www.pliant.org/personal/Tom_Erickson/VC_as_Genre.html
  2. Jones, Q. (1997). Virtual-Communities, Virtual Settlements & Cyber-Archaeology: A Theoretical Outline. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3/3. Available at:
  3. Liu, G. (1999). Virtual Community Presence in Internet Relay Chatting. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 5/1.

 

 

 
09/09
  1. Rheingold, Howard. (1993). The Virtual Community. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
    • On-line at: http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/
    • Chapter 2: Daily Life in Cyberspace: How a Computerized Counterculture Built a New Kind of Place
    • Chapter 3: Visions and Convergences: The Accidental History of the Net

Recommended:

  1. Jones, Steven. (1998). Information, Internet, and Community: Notes Toward an Understanding of Community in the Information Age. In Steven Jones (ed.), Cybersociety 2.0. London: Sage Publications, 1-34.
    • In reader
  2. Robin Hamman, Alan Sondheim, Howard Rheingold, John Suler, Ph.D., Moderator. (2000). Developing Online Communities.Behavior Online Chat Events, March 25, 2000.

 
Week 3 09/14 Theme 2: Linguistic Perspectives on CMC
  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 1: A linguistic perspective.
    • Chapter 2: The medium of netspeak.
  2. Dibble, Julian. (1995). 2 Cute 4 Words: In Defense of the Smiley. The Village Voice, October 4, 1994.

 

 

 

 

 
09/16
  1. Herring, Susan. (1996). Introduction. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    • In reader
  2. Thorne, S. (2003). Review of Language and the Internet (David Crystal): The Biggest Language Revolution Ever Meets Applied Linguistics in the 21st Century. Language Learning & Technology 7/2: 24-27.
  3. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 3: Finding an identity.

Recommended:

  1. Bregman, Alvan, & Haythornthwaite, Caroline. (2001). Radicals of Presentation in Persistent Conversation. Published in the Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference On System Sciences, January 3-6, 2001, Maui, Hawaii.
  2. Paulillo, J. (1999). The Virtual Speech Community: Social Network and Language Variation on IRC. JCMC 4 (4).
  3. Donath, Judith, Karrie Karahalios and Fernanda Viegas. (1999). Visualizing Conversation. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4 (4) June 1999.

More reviews of David Crystal's Language and the Internet
Week 4 09/21
  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 4: The language of email
  2. Herring, Susan. (1996). Two variants of an electronic message schema. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    • In reader
  
09/23 Theme 3: Synchronous CMC (chat)
  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 5: The language of chatgroups

Recommended:

  1. Yates, S. (1996). Oral and written aspects of computer conferencing. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    • In Reader
  2. Bennahum, David. (1994). Fly Me To the MOO: Adventures in Textual Reality. Lingua Franca 4/4 - May/June 1994.
    • In reader
  3. Johanyak, M. (1997). Analyzing the amalgamated electronic text: Bringing cognitive, social, and contextual factors of individual language users into CMC research. Computers and Composition 14, 91-110.
  
Week 5 09/28
  1. Herring, Susan. (1999). Interactional coherence in CMC. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4 (4) June 1999.

Recommended:

  1. Werry, C. (1996). Linguistic and interactional features of Internet Relay Chat. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
    • In reader
  2. Collot, Milena, & Belmore, Nancy. (1996). Electronic Language: A New Variety of English. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic, Social, and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.

NOTE: CLASS in IST 203

MOO technology to play with:
09/30 Theme 4: Instant Messenger

 

  1. Grinter, R., Palen, L. (2002). Instant Messenging in Teen Life. Proceedings from Computer Supported Cooperative Work 2002, ACM.
    • In reader
  2. Karen Thomas. (2001). Kids need enduring smarts with instant messaging. USA TODAY.
  3. Karen Thomas. (2001). Instant message to all parents: Watch the kids. USA TODAY.
    • http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2001-07-10-instant-messaging-qa.htm
  4. Joyce Cohen. Making a Statement, in Absentia. NY Times, 20 March, 2003.
    • in reader
  5. Daniel Terdiman. Instant messaging goes graphical. Wired News, 16 September, 2004
    • http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,64969,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2

Recommended:

  1. Teenage Life Online: The rise of the instant-message generation and the Internet's impact on friendships and family relationships. Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Internet Use Project Due, + class discussion of results
Week 6 10/05 Theme 5: Virtual Worlds
  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 6: The language of virtual worlds

Special Topic: Using MOOs and the application of MOOs for writing and composition

  1. Dibbel, Julien. (1998). A Brief History of MUDs: From Time Immemorial to the Present. In My Tiny Life. Owl Books, Publisher.
  2. Day, Michael. (1996). Pedagogies in Virtual Spaces: Writing Classes in the MOO.Kairos, 1/2.
  3. Harris, Leslie. (1996). Writing Spaces: Using MOOs to Teach Composition and Literature. Kairos, 1/2.
 
10/07 Theme 6: Language of the Web and the Linguistic Future of the Internet
  1. Crystal, David. (2001). Language and the Internet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    • Chapter 7: The language of the web
    • Chapter 8: The linguistic future of the Internet

NOTE: CLASS in IST 203

Internet and languages
Week 7   Theme 7: The Internet and Identity
10/12
  1. Turke, Sherry. (1996). Who Am We? Wired, 4, 1, January 1996.
  2. Carlson, Scott. (1999). An On-Line 'Quiz Show' Uses the Anonymity of the Internet to Reveal Biases. Chronicle of Higher Education, Wednesday, September 15, 1999.

Recommended:

  1. Turkle, Sherry. (1998). Interivew with Katie Hafner: At Heart of a Cyberstudy, the Human Essence. New York Times, June 18, 1998.
  2. Turke, Sherry. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster.
  
10/14
  1. Warschauer, M. (2000). Language, identity, and the Internet. In B. Kolko, L. Nakamura, & G. Rodman (Eds.), Race in Cyberspace (pp. 151-170). New York: Routledge.

Recommended:

  1. Bays, H. (1999). Framing and face in Internet exchanges: A socio-cognitive approach.
  2. Wynn, Eleanor, & Katz, James. Hyperbole over Cyberspace: Self-presentation & Social Boundaries in Internet Home Pages and Discourse. The Information Society, An International Journal, 13(4): 297-328.
  3. Donath, Judith. (1999). Identity and Deception in the Virtual Environment. In Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (eds.), Communities in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge.

NOTE: CLASS in IST 203

BLOG link: http://calper.la.psu.edu/cmc/blogs/aplng083s/fa04/
Week 8 10/19 Theme 8: CMC and Communication Theory
  1. Walther, Joseph. (1996). Computer-Mediated Communication: Impersonal, Interpersonal, and Hyperpersonal Interaction. Communication Research 23/1: 3-43.
    • In reader

Recommended:

  1. Postmes, Tom, Spears, Russell, & Lea, Martin. (1998). Breaching or Building Social Boundaries? SIDE-Effects of Computer-Mediated Communication. Communication Research, 25/6: 689-715.
    • In reader
  2. Walther, J. B., Anderson, J. F., & Park, D. W. (1994). Interpersonal effects in computer-mediated interaction: A meta-analysis of social and anti-social communication. Communication Research, 21/4, 460-487.
    • In reader
  
10/21 Theme 9: Issues of Power and the Internet
  1. Dibble, Julian. (1993). A Rape in Cyberspace (Or TINYSOCIETY, and How to Make One). The Village Voice, December 23, 1993.

Recommended:

  1. Spears, Russell, & Lee, Martin. (1994). Panacea or Panopticon? The Hidden Power in Computer-Mediated Communication. Communication Research 21/4: 427-459.
    • In reader
 NOTE: CLASS in IST 203
Week 9 10/26 Theme 10: Technology, CMC, and Location Independent Education
  1. Noble, D. (1998). Digital diploma mills: The automation of higher education.

Recommended:

  1. Wegerif, Rupert. (1998). The Social Dimension of Asynchronous Learning Networks. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, Volume 2, Issue 1.
  2. Technology, Democracy, and Academic Labor. Special Edition of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor, 5/1, October 2002. Available at: http://www.louisville.edu/journal/workplace/issue5p1/5p1.html
    • The "Informal Economy" of the Information University, by Marc Bousquet Educational
    • Technology and Restructuring Academic Labor, by Larry Hanley
    • Corporate Fantasy and the ÒBrave New World of Digital EducationÓ, by Michelle Rodino
  3. Bourne, J. R., McMaster, E., Rieger, J. & Campbell, J. O. (1999). Paradigms for on-line learning: A case study in the design and implementation of an asynchronous learning networks (ALN) course. Journal of Asychronous Learning Networks, 1 (2).
  4. Chester, Andrea, & Gwynne, Gillian. (1998). Online Teaching: Encouraging Collaboration through Anonymity. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 4 (2) December 1998.
  5. Muirhead, Brent. (2000). Enhancing Social Interaction in Computer-Mediated Distance Education: Moderator and Summarizer: Brent Muirhead. Educational Technology & Society 3(4).
 
10/28 Theme 11: CMC and Language Education
  1. Kern, R. G. (1995). Restructuring Classroom Interaction with Networked Computers: Effects on Quantity and Characteristics of Language Production. Modern Language Journal 79/4:457-476.
    • In reader
  2. Warschauer, M. (1999). Chapter 1: Introduction: Surveying the Terrain of Literacy. In Electronic literacies: Language, culture, and power in online education. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Recommended:

  1. Thorne, S. (2004). Cultural historical activity theory and the object of innovation To appear in New Insights into Foreign Language Learning and Teaching. Oliver St. John, Kees van Esch, & Eus Schalkwijk (Eds). Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt.(Germany).
  2. Ortega, L. (1997). Processes and outcomes in networked classroom interaction: Defining the research agenda for L2 computer-assisted classroom discussion. Language Learning & Technology, 1/1: 82-93.
  3. Kern, R., & Warschauer, M. (2000). Theory and practice of network-based language teaching. In M. Warschauer & R. Kern (Eds.), Network-based language teaching: Concepts and practice (pp. 1-19). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Knobel, M., Lankshear, C., Honan, E., Crawford, J. (1998). The wired world of second- language education. In I. Snyder (ed.), Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era. New York: Routledge, p. 20-50.
  5. Janangelo, J. (1991). Technopower and technoppression: Some abuses of power and control in computer-assisted writing environments. Computers and Composition 9/1: 47-63.

Recommended (Special Topic: Technology and Language Revitalization):

  1. Warschauer, M. (1998). Technology and indigenous language revitalization: Analyzing the experience of Hawai'i. Canadian Modern Language Review, 55(1), 140-161.
NOTE: CLASS in IST 203
Week 10 11/02 Theme 12: CMC Case Studies and Contexts

Intercultural Communication and CMC

  1. Thorne, S. (2003). Artifacts and Cultures-of-Use in Intercultural Communication. Language Learning and Technology [http://llt.msu.edu/].
 
11/04 A study of the longitudinal use of synchronous and asynchronous CMC in the workplace
  1. Erickson, T. (1999). Making Sense of Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC): Conversations as Genres, CMC Systems as Genre Ecologies.

A seminal research article on organizational communication

  1. Yates, J. and Orlikowski, W. J. (1992). Genres of Organizational Communication: A Structurational Approach to Studying Communication and Media. Academy of Management Review, Vol. 17, No. 2, 299-326, 1992.
    • In reader

Description and analysis of "All My Childern" soap opera newsgroup

  1. Baym, Nancy. (1995). From Practice to Culture on Usenet. In Susan Leigh Star (ed), The Cultures of Computing. Oxford, UK.: Blackwell Publishers/The Sociological Review.
    • In reader
  
Week 11 11/09

Text messenging via mobile phones

  1. Grinter, R., Eldridge, M. (2001). 'y do tngrs luv 2 txt msg?', in W. Prinz, M. Jarke, Y. Rogers, K. Schmidt and V. Wulf (eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW 2001, Bonn, Germany. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 219-238.
    • In reader

A classic article on Internet commerce and leveraging Internet community

  1. Hagel, John III and Armstrong, Arthur G. (1996). The Real Value of On-Line Communities. Harvard Business Review, May-June, 1996.
    • In reader

An analysis of the concept and important of trust for virtual organizations

  1. Jarvenpaa, Sirkka, & Leidner, Dorothy. (1998). Communication and Trust in Global Virtual Teams. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (4).

Outlines of final projects due

 

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  Theme 13: Love, Sexuality, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Digital Universe
11/11
  1. Egan, Jennifer. (2003). Love in the Time of No Time. New York Times Magazine: 23 November, 2003.
  2. Zernike, Kate. (2003). Just Saying No to the Dating Industry. Ney York Times: 30 November, 2003.
  3. Cohen, Joyce. (2001). On the Net, Love Really Is Blind. New York Times, 18 January, 2001.

Recommended:

  1. Burkhalter, Byron. (1999). Reading Race Online: Discovering racial identity in Usenet discussions. In Marc Smith and Peter Kollock (eds.), Communities in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge.
    • In reader
  2. Rodino, M. (1997). Breaking out of binaries: Reconceptualizing gender and its relationship to language in computer-mediated communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 3 (3).
  3. Deuel, Nancy. (1996). Our passionate response to virtual reality. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  4. Hall, Kira. (1996). Cyberfeminism. In Susan Herring (ed.), Computer-mediated communication: Linguistic, social and cross-cultural perspectives. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  5. Haraway, D. (1991). A cyborg manifesto: Science, technology and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Donna Haraway: Siminas, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. London: Free Association Books.
  6. Stone, Allucquere Rosanne. (1995). Sex and death among the disembodied: VR, cyberspace, and the nature of academic discourse. In S.L. Star (ed.), The Cultures of Computing. Cambridge, MA.: Blackwell Publishers.
  
Week 12 11/16 More Love
  1. Egan, Jennifer. (2000). Lonely Gay Teen Seeking Same: How Jeffrey found friendship, sex, heartache / and himself / online. New York Times Magazine: 10 December, 2000.
 
11/18    
Theme 14: Research and the Internet
  1. Thorne, S. (2000). Beyond Bounded Activity Systems: Heterogeneous Cultures in Instructional Uses of Persistent Conversation. Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (CD-ROM), IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA., 2000.
  2. Jones, Steve (ed.) (1999). Doing Research on the Internet. London: Sage Publications.
  3. Miller, Daniel, and Slater, Don. (2000). The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach. New York: Berg Publishers.

Recommended:

  1. Garton, Laura; Haythornthwaite, Caroline; and Wellman, Barry. (1997). Studying Online Social Networks. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (1) June 1997.
 
Week 13 11/23 Theme 15: Psychological, Political, and Philosophical Perspectives on the Internet
  1. Kraut, R., Lundmark, V., Patterson, M., Kiesler, S., Mukopadhyay, T., Scherlis, W. (1998). Internet Paradox: A Social Technology That Reduces Social Involvement and Psychological Well-Being? American Psychologist, 53/9:1017-1031.
  2. Kraut, R., Kiesler, S., Boneva, B., Cummings, J., Helgeson, V., & Crawford, A. (2002). Internet Paradox Revisited. Journal of Social Issues 58/1:49-74.
    • In reader

Recommended:

  1. Horrigan, J. (2001). Online communities: Networks that nurture long-distance relationships and local ties. Pew Internet & American Life Project. Release date: 6pm Eastern, October 31st, 2001. Available online: http://www.pewinternet.org/
 What are the relationships between psychogical well-being, involvement, and Internet use?
NO CLASS
  1. Brown, John S., Duguid, Paul. (2000). The Social Life of Information. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
  2. Nardi, Bonnie, & OÕDay, Vicki. (1999). Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.
  3. Lanier, Jaron. (2000). One Half Of A Manifesto. Edge 74 Ñ September 25, 2000
  4. Jones, Steven. (1997). The Internet and its Social Landscape. In Steven Jones (ed.), Virtual Culture: Identity and Communication in Cybersociety. London: Sage Publications.
  
Week 14 12/30 Course overview and recap  
12/02 Student presentations  
Week 15 12/07 Student presentations  
12/09 Student presentations and course wrap-up Final projects and portfolios due!
Additional Theme

CMC & Organizations, Business and Commerce

  1. Ahuja, M., & Carley, K. (1998). Network Structure in Virtual Organizations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (4) June 1998.
  2. Grabowski, M., & Roberts, K. (1998). Risk Mitigation in Virtual Organizations. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 3 (4), June 1998.
  3. Kiesler, S. & Sproull, L. (1992). Group decision making and communication technology. Organization Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 52, 96-123.
    • In reader
Additional Theme Peer-2-Peer Technologies: Blogging
  1. Emily Nussbaum. My So-Called Blog. New York Times. January 11th, 2004.
    • http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/magazine/11BLOG.html?pagewanted=print&position=
  2. Peter Meyers. Wireless bloggin with a real-time twist. The New York Times, January 23rd, 2003.
    • http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/23/technology/circuits/23kick.html?tntemail1
  3. David Becker. Blogs open doors for developers. The New York Times, January 31st, 2003.
    • http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1001-982854.html
  4. Noah Sachtman. With incessant postings, a pundit stirs the pot. The New York Times, January 16, 2003.
    • http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/16/technology/circuits/16inst.html?tntemail1
  5. Rebecca Mead. You've Got Blog How to put your business, your boyfriend, and your life on-line. The New Yorker Magazine. November 13, 2000.
    • http://www.rebeccamead.com/2000_11_13_art_blog.htm
  6. Holly J. Morris. Blogging burgeons as a form of Web expression. U.S. News. January 15, 2001.
    • http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/010115/nycu/blogging.htm
  7. Leander Kahney. The Web the Way It Was. Wired News. Feb. 23, 2000.
    • http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,34006,00.html
  8. Tracking Bloggers With Blogdex.
    • http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,45546,00.html
  9. James Grimmelmann. Peer-to-peer Terrorism. Salon.com. Sept. 26, 2001.
    • http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/09/26/osama_bin_napster/index.html
Additional Theme

CMC and the processes of publishing

  1. Ann Light and Yvonne Rogers. (1999). Conversation as Publishing: The Role of News Forums on the Web. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 4 (4).

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