Exam
2: Technology and Human Communication
3 essay questions
(Questions will ask you to consider broad themes:
study the areas below and think very hard about how everything relates to each
other. The exam will be
COMPREHENSIVE, meaning that youÕll be asked to pull together the entire class.)
Topic
Areas
Networked
Public Sphere
The possibilities enabled by the social networked
sphere
The industrial vs. information/networked society
Networked public sphere vis a vis democracy
Against
the Machine/Lee Siegel.
How
does his argument contrast with BenklerÕs
What
are the issues Siegel has with the web?
Photography
+ copyright
Youth
media and digital creativity in the information age.
Amateur
journalism and blogging
Open
source software
What
all these 4 elements have to do with one another
Re-write
culture
User
generated content
Copyright
Specific
examples of copyright laws applied in ÒridiculousÓ ways
What
is authorship? Who is an
author? What are opposing ways of
thinking about authorship?
Roland
Barthes; Jacque Derridas
what
does copyright have to do with democracy?
Mashups
Public
Domain
Copyright
laws and the difficulties they bring to documentary filmmaking
Creative
Commons
The
future of visual content: will we be able to download in 10 years?
Will we have the same amt. of user generated content? Will Youtube exist?
Wikipedia
as a controversial open source site/Stacy Schiff: Know it All: Can Wikipedia
conquer expertise?
if:book: Òwikipedia not safe for workÓ
The
history of encyclopedias
Search Engine Commercialization
Search Engines as advertising conglomerates
History
How exactly are search engines like Google
compromised?
Page rank
Contextual Links
Adsense; Adwords
Yahoo/Overture
Dan Firger and the dominance of Google
What
is the tension between libraries and commercial search engines?
Commons
Carnegie/history
of public libraries
Digital
Archiving Movement and how significant it is in light of Google
OAI-PMH
(Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)
Oaister
and other digital archives/World Digital Library
Tension
between bloggers and journalists (now resolvedÑhow)
Connection
between blogging and pamphleteering
Photojournalism: how the web has changed how we
communicate visually through photos.
Photoshop
and digital imagemaking
The digital truth behind photos and
videos
Digital
manipulation in the 21st century (compared to the 19th
century!)
Postmodernism
What is it and how did it
come about?
How many examples of postmodernism do you know
from all disciplines
Digital
Literature
Postmodernism
in the age of Google: is the web
making us think differently? Read
differently?
Video Games
Second Life
WORLD OF WARCRAFT 3-PART
SERIES FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES
Cave Technology and holograms
TV Narratives vis a vis
Postmodernism
Steve Johnson: Everything Good is Bad for You (main
arguments)
Social
Networking, Facebook and Myspace
Twitter and "digital intimacy"
Web
3.0/Semantic Web: Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, Wolfram Alpha, Google Wave
Meta Tagging
Web 3.0 trends: Filtering content, real time data, personalization, gps, data recognition, conversion technologies, cloud computing (eg, Google docs), Saas
Surface computing, 3d virtual reality
Net
Neutrality
eBattles over; copyright; a neutral web (especially in light of Comcast buying NBC); commerce vs. the commons
Phones as a primary device
Double Click, advertising company owned by Google
Privacy
in the age of Google, Doubleclick and datamining
Cookies
Cyber-slamming
Data logging
STUDY
PPT.
STUDY ARTICLES
STUDY
YOUR NOTES
STUDY
DISCUSSION BOARD COMMENTS TO REFRESH ON SOME SPECIFIC EXAMPLES/DETAILS
OF VARIOUS ARTICLES READ.