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= Business = | = Business = | ||
* I have graded your essays; I will send you email with grade by the end of the day. | |||
* Final Essays are now on Blackboard | * Final Essays are now on Blackboard | ||
* Due date has been extended to the end of the week, which gives you 4 more days. | * Due date has been extended to the end of the week, which gives you 4 more days. | ||
* Trip to Cornell was very good -- ethnography of scholarship | |||
** Actually involved applying some of Suchman's ideas | |||
** Focusing on details in order to get at behavior (practice) and by-pass theorization about behavior | |||
= Recap = | = Recap = | ||
* Community and Society | * Community and Society | ||
* Anderson's thesis | ** Community = organic, local, relational → "families and churches" | ||
** Society = artificial, political, individual → "citizens and governments" | |||
* A couple of points | |||
** Economics -- the market and industrialization -- is the driver here | |||
** Related to move from status to contract | |||
** Money is the ultimate contract | |||
* How does Anderson's thesis fit into this? | |||
** Nationalism is the appropriation of the concept of community at the social social level | |||
** Because "society" per se has no "legitimacy" (no sacred propositions, to use Rappaport's terminology) | |||
** Thesis --> Antithesis --> Synthesis | |||
** Explain concept of "dialectic" | |||
* Why does community matter so much? | * Why does community matter so much? | ||
* Blogging | |||
** Examples: (Political) | |||
*** [http://www.dailykos.com/ Daily Kos] and [http://www.bluehampshire.com/frontPage.do Blue Hampshire] | |||
*** [http://www.powerlineblog.com Power Line] and [http://instapundit.com InstaPundit] | |||
** Features | |||
*** Blogroll | |||
*** About other blog stories | |||
*** About the news | |||
*** Database as Symbolic Form | |||
* The "Ecology of Information" | |||
= Segue = | = Segue = | ||
* Salam Pax | * Salam Pax and Community | ||
= Salam Pax and the Blogoshpere = | = Salam Pax and the Blogoshpere = | ||
* Describe the story | |||
** Who is Salam Pax? | |||
*** 29-year old Iraqi blogger (at the time of the War) | |||
*** Gay | |||
*** Western educated | |||
** Is he real? | |||
** What is he famous for? | |||
* What are some interesting details? | |||
** Number of people involved | |||
** The most linked to blog at the time of the invasion (Guardian 3/24/2003) | |||
** Not read by fellow Iraqis (at the time) | |||
** Foundation for a book | |||
** Foundation for a movie | |||
= Second Life = | = Second Life = | ||
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* Privacy? | * Privacy? | ||
* Transparency? | * Transparency? | ||
* Compare to blogging | |||
Latest revision as of 16:35, 12 November 2007
Business
- I have graded your essays; I will send you email with grade by the end of the day.
- Final Essays are now on Blackboard
- Due date has been extended to the end of the week, which gives you 4 more days.
- Trip to Cornell was very good -- ethnography of scholarship
- Actually involved applying some of Suchman's ideas
- Focusing on details in order to get at behavior (practice) and by-pass theorization about behavior
Recap
- Community and Society
- Community = organic, local, relational → "families and churches"
- Society = artificial, political, individual → "citizens and governments"
- A couple of points
- Economics -- the market and industrialization -- is the driver here
- Related to move from status to contract
- Money is the ultimate contract
- How does Anderson's thesis fit into this?
- Nationalism is the appropriation of the concept of community at the social social level
- Because "society" per se has no "legitimacy" (no sacred propositions, to use Rappaport's terminology)
- Thesis --> Antithesis --> Synthesis
- Explain concept of "dialectic"
- Why does community matter so much?
- Blogging
- Examples: (Political)
- Daily Kos and Blue Hampshire
- Power Line and InstaPundit
- Features
- Blogroll
- About other blog stories
- About the news
- Database as Symbolic Form
- Examples: (Political)
- The "Ecology of Information"
Segue
- Salam Pax and Community
Salam Pax and the Blogoshpere
- Describe the story
- Who is Salam Pax?
- 29-year old Iraqi blogger (at the time of the War)
- Gay
- Western educated
- Is he real?
- What is he famous for?
- Who is Salam Pax?
- What are some interesting details?
- Number of people involved
- The most linked to blog at the time of the invasion (Guardian 3/24/2003)
- Not read by fellow Iraqis (at the time)
- Foundation for a book
- Foundation for a movie
Second Life
- Discuss experience
- What is it?
- Community?
- Privacy?
- Transparency?
- Compare to blogging
