My Blog, Myself

|WRPR 115A
Haverford College
Fall, 2004

(revised 12/21/04)
www.haverford.edu/psych/ddavis/psych214/p214syl.04.html
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Doug Davis
d2live blog
(class LJ blogs)
Department of Psychology
Haverford College
Sharpless407
Phone: 610-896-1236
ddavis@haverford.edu

Topics and Assignments
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• August 31: D2 Introduction: memexes, blogs, selves (the lecture introduction – RealMedia required)
• Blog communities: Google, LiveJournal, Xanga
• Blog-searching: Feedster, Bloogz, BlogSearchEngine
• Sample Blogs
• Baghdad Burning
• The Daedalus Project
• d2: memex a, b, c, “Erotic Computing”
• Infocult
• links.net
• September 2: As we may think
• Sigmund Freud (1900): “Eine große Halle-viele Gäste, die wir empfangen …”
• Freud’s original account (beginning “In the summer of 1895…”)
• Vannevar Bush (1945): “Consider a future device for individual use …”
• Geoffrey Nunberg (2004) Blogging in the Global Lunchroom
• George Packer (2004): The Revolution Will Not Be Blogged
• Doug Davis (1994): summer at the lake
• September 7: first writing assignment discussed
• September 9: More on memexes
• September 14: Our LJ experience so far
• September 16: Blogs and biographies
• McNeill, L. (2003). Teaching an old genre new tricks
• Zuern, J. (2003). Online lives
• September 21: Zuern, McNeill, sample blogs
  • Bob Flanagan: Pain Journal
  • Steve Schalchlin: The Bonus Round
• Spetember 23: The writing assignment discussed
• September 24: Assignment 2 due
• September 28: Blogs and Politics
  • Fear and Laptops on the Campaign Trail (New York Times Magazine, 9/26/04)
• September 30: Identity (take 1)
  • Turkle, Chapter 10
• October 4, October 6: Tutorial sessions: Sharpless 407: Peer review worksheet
• October 5: Playing in the MUD
  • LambdaMOO (login, explore)
  • Jill Serpentelli thesis (browse)
  • D2: EC: Adventure
• October 7: Identity (take 2)
  • Turkle, Chapter 7, Constructions of the Self
• October 8-18: Fall Break
• October 19: Blogs and IM
• October 21: AIM conversations, up close
• October 26: A survey of AIM at the 'Ford, elsewhere
• Octgober 28: Close readings of AIM logs
  • Survey link, data
• November 1: McNeill papers revisions due, tutorials 1,2 meet
• November 2: My vote, myself
• November 3: Tutorial 3 meets
• November 4: The AIM conversations piece of the next paper (assignment)
• November 9: no class
• November 11: The psychologist studies IM conversations
  • Markey & Wells: The "Big Five" personality inventory (data)
  • Pennebaker: The world of words (demonstration)
• November 15: Tutorial 1, tutorial 2
• November 16: The social science of cyberspace
• November 7: Tutorial 3
• November 18: The fiction of cyberspace
  • Weiss: Virtual love
  • Cadigan: Icy you ... juicy me
• November 23: Virtual worlds, real societies?
  • Stern: Creating Emotional Relationships With Virtual Characters
  • Yee: Stories of Digital Lives and Identities
  • Davis: Webster's Weekly columns
• Thanksgiving
• November 30:Virtual worlds, redux
• December 2: Gender, cyberpersons, and the final paper
  • Honey, M., et al. (1991)
  • Honey, M., & McMillan, K. (1996)
• December 7: The memex reconsidered
• December 9: Bringing it all back home

Assigned Book

• Hacker, Diana. (2004). A pocket style manual, 4^th edition. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin’s.

Readings/Sources

• Bush, V. (1945). As we may think. The Atlantic Monthly.
• Cadigan, P. (2000). Icy you ... juicy me. from The New English Library Book of Internet Stories. www.theregister.co.uk
• Curtis, Pavel. (1992). Mudding: Social Phenomena in Text-Based Virtual Realities. www.zacha.net/articles/mudding.html
• Davis, D.A. (2003). Milennial teaching. Academe, v. 89, 1, 19-22.
• Davis, D.A. (1994-1995). Erotic computing. Webster’s Weekly.
• Honey, M., et al. (1991). Girls and design: Exploring the question of technological imagination. Center for Children and Technology. Technical Report No. 17.
• Honey, M., & McMillan, K. (1996). Case Studies of K-12 Educators' Use of the Internet. Center for Children and Technology. CCT Reports, 5.
• LambdaMOO: An Introduction. www.lambdamoo.info
• Markey, P.M., & Wells, S.M. (2002). Interpersonal perception in Internet chat rooms. Journal of Research in Personality. 36, 134-146.
• McNeill, L. (2003). Teaching an old genre new tricks: The diary on the internet. Biography, 26. (11 pp.)
• Niederhoffer, K.G. & Pennebaker, J.W. (2002). Linguistic style matching in social interaction. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21, 337-360.
• Pew Internet and American Life Project.
• Rheingold, Howard. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1993. www.rheingold.com
• Rheingold, Howard. (n.d.). Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. www.rheingold.com
• Schwartz, J. Silicon dreams: Real life and virtual life intersect as technology affects the way we think and live. Washington Post, May 17, 2000.
• Serpentelli, Jill. (1992). Conversational Structure and Personality Correlates of Electronic Communication. Haverford College Psychology Thesis.
• Stern, A. (1999). Creating Emotional Relationships With Virtual Characters. Chapter in Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, eds. R. Trappl, P. Petta, and S.Payr, MIT Press, April 2003.
• Turkle, Sherry. (1994). Constructions and Reconstructions of the Self in Virtual Reality. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 1, 3, Summer 1994. web.mit.edu/sturkle/www
• Turkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster. Chapter 7: Aspects of the Self. Chapter 10: Identity Crisis.
• Walker, Janice R. MOOs and MUDs. www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jwalker/
• Weiss, J. (1994). Virtual love. Cyberkind.
• Yee, N. (2002). Mosaic: Stories of Digital Lives and Identities. www.nickyee.com
• Young, Robert M. (1996). Primitive processes on the Internet. human-nature.com/rmyoung
• Zuern, J. (2003). Online lives: Introduction. Biography, 26. (10 pp.)

Sample Blogs, Web Tools, Playthings

Reference Tools

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
• Online Dictionary, Encyclopedia and Thesaurus. TheFreeDictinary.com
• Oxford English Dictionary. (campus access)
• Strunk, W. (1918). The elements of Style. www.bartleby.com.
• Wikipedia.
  • Metawiki, Wiktionary. (Wikimedia Foundation)