Seminar in Digital Communication: COMM 648
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Schedule of Events, Fall 2011
Week 1 – September 12
Welcome to the Seminar
Readings:
Gee, Chapter 1 (in two parts)
Prensky
Week 2 – September 19
Digital Literacies
Readings:
Jenkins, Introduction
Rheingold, Attention & Other 21st c. Literacies
Zuckerman, 4 Questions about Civic Media
McLuhan, Table of Contents
Week 3 – September 26
Media, Technology and Society
Readings:
Hobbs, Knight Commission Report on Digital & Media Literacy
one book from the digital literacy section
Book chapter proposals must be approved individually before this seminar meeting.
Week 4 – October 3
Information Design 1
Readings:
Carliner
Albers, Introduction
Mazur, Chapter 1
Coates, Chapter 1
Norman, Chapter 1
DELIVER: Digital/Experiential event 1
Week 5 – October 10
Information Design 2
Readings:
one book from the Information Design section
DELIVER: Book chapter introduction & full chapter references.
Week 6 – October 17
Experience Design 1
Readings:
Shedroff
Week 7 – October 24
Experience Design 2
Readings:
Williams
UXMatters
Week 8 – October 31
Peer editing of work on your book chapters. Please meet each other individually. No full class meeting.
Week 9 – November 7
Strategic Design
Readings:
Web 2.0, Chapters 1 & 6
What Would Google Do?, Table of Contents
Naked Conversations, Chapter 1
Blog Rules, Chapter 13
DELIVER: Digital/Experiential event 2
Week 10 – November 14
Strategic Communication through Digital Media
Solis
Week 11 – November 21
DELIVER via email: Completed Book Chapter.
No full class meeting.
Week 12 – November 28
Digital Strategic Communication 1
Readings:
one book from the “Digital Strategic Communication” section
Week 13 – December 5
Digital Strategic Communication 2
DELIVER: Digital/Experiential event 3
Week 14 – December 12
Where We Are Going, We Don’t Need Roads
DELIVER: Revised Book chapter
J.A.McArthur, Ph.D. 