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All dates with a {{font|font=Alegreys|bgcolor=#E1BEE7|purple background}} are '''<s>in-class</s> [https://zoom.us/j/739514881?pwd=Ukt5QzUrdDNEQXZhbzJueStlTEEwQT09  Zoom] meetings''' (as of 3/31) while those with a {{font|font=Alegreys|bgcolor=#DCEDC8|green background}} are '''online days''' with no face-to-face meeting. All online assignments are due '''Sundays at 5pm''', unless otherwise noted. In-class days with a {{font|font=Alegreys|bgcolor=#D6EAF8|blue background}} are those taught by students. In addition, assigned texts below—most unlinked and marked as {{PDF}}—are available on a [http://bit.ly/2DyU2B6 Google Drive]. Be sure to request access early in the semester.

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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 1
| style="background-color:#F2F4F4; text-align: center;" | 01/07
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| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 01/09
| Class Begins • Introduction<ref>Be sure to order your books today {{crossreference|(see [[New Media, Spring 2020/Requirements#Required Texts|Required Texts]])}}</ref> • [http://bit.ly/2DyU2B6 Google Drive Access]
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 2
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 01/14
| Watch: ''[https://www.netflix.com/title/80117542 The Great Hack]'' on Netflix • Lucas: “[[New Media]]”  • Sign up Sheet for project text
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 01/16
| Create an account and link it to [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)?enroll=zyjtbqxc Wiki.Edu]<ref>You must use this link as it contains an enrollment key.</ref> • WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-1 Week 1] • Write a short biography of yourself on your [[w:Wikipedia:User page|Wikipedia user page]]
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 3
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 01/21
| [[w:Marshall McLuhan|Marshall McLuhan]]: “The Medium Is the Message” {{PDF}} and “The Gadget Lover” {{PDF}}<ref>I was late granting access to the drive (sorry about), but I’m sure you could find the readings on Google. There are some excellent explanatory video, too, on YouTube: [https://youtu.be/Ko6J9v1C9zE 1], [https://youtu.be/OseOb_wBsi4 2].</ref><br />{{Small|See also: “[[McLuhan's Medium & Message]],” “[[February 7, 2014|The Message of Guns]],” and “[[The Media and the Material]].”}}
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 01/23
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-2 Week 2].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 4
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 01/28
| Early Thinkers: [[w:Vannevar Bush|Bush]], [[w:J. C. R. Licklider|Licklider]], [[w:Norbert Wiener|Wiener]], [[w:Jay David Bolter|Bolter]] {{PDF}}<br />{{Small|Group work today: [[Talk:New Media, Spring 2020/Schedule#Group Assignments for 1/28|Essay/Teaching Assignments]]}}
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 01/30
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-3 Week 3].<ref>For the “Choose your article” exercise, you should use the one you have been assigned for P1 and P2. If your article does not yet exist, use this exercise to begin planning.</ref>
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 5
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 02/04
| [[w:Richard Barbrook|Richard Barbrook]] and Andy Cameron: “[http://www.comune.torino.it/gioart/big/bigguest/riflessioni/californian_engl.pdf The Californian Ideology]”<br />{{small|See also: [[February 4, 2020|Notes on “The Californian Ideology”]]}}
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 02/06
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-4 Week 4].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 6
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 02/11
| style="background-color:#D6EAF8;" | [[w:Nicholas Negroponte|Nicholas Negroponte]]: ''[[w:Being Digital|Being Digital]]''<br />{{Small|See also: [[Being Digital Questions for Consideration|''Being Digital'' Questions for Consideration]]}}
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 02/13
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-5 Week 5].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 7
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 02/18
| style="background-color:#D6EAF8;" | Negroponte (cont.)
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 02/20
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-6 Week 6].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 8
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 02/25
| Lucas “[[Defining Digital Humanities]]” • Pressner, et al “[https://www.humanitiesblast.com/manifesto/Manifesto_V2.pdf The DH Manifesto]” • [[w:Stuart Moulthrop|Stuart Moulthrop]]: “[http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-48-moulthrop.pdf You Say You Want a Revolution?]” • [[w:Eric S. Raymond|Eric Raymond]]: “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” {{PDF}}
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 02/27
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-7 Week 7].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 9
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 03/03<ref>Midterm grades due.</ref>
| style="background-color:#D6EAF8;" | [[w:Henry Jenkins|Henry Jenkins]]: ''Convergence Culture'', introduction and chapters 1–3
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 03/05
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-8 Week 8].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 10
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 03/10<ref>Drop date: last day to withdraw with a “W.”</ref>
| style="background-color:#D6EAF8;" | Jenkins (cont.), chapters 4–6 and conclusion
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 03/12
| WikiEdu training: complete all activities listed under [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-9 Week 9].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 11
| style="background-color:#F2F4F4; text-align: center;" | 03/17
| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#FCF3CF" | Spring Break
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| style="background-color:#F2F4F4; text-align: center;" | 03/19
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 12
| style="background-color:#F2F4F4; text-align: center; | 03/24
| style="background-color:#FADBD8;" rowspan="2" | No Class.<ref>From MGA President Christopher Blake: “Based on the latest information, system leaders have made the decision that effective Monday, March 16, 2020, all University System of Georgia institutions will temporarily suspend instruction for two weeks to allow time for USG institutions to test their business continuity plans and online instruction modules and for state officials to continue to assess the current situation regarding coronavirus (COVID-19) in Georgia.”</ref> Set up [https://zoom.us/ Zoom] on your computer and import the [https://zoom.us/meeting/upckcuispjMr7Pm50Qe52CnFnNglbHyKIw/ics?icsToken=98tyKu6rpz4rHtydsVzHUa0qA4X-bvHMkCZ-p_YNrRqwUQNdRA3YMe5AGqtUOc-B meeting schedule] to your calendar.<ref>This is a <code>.ics</code> that you can import to your calendar program. It contains the meeting dates, times, link, and password.</ref> Create account on the [[Forum]]. You will need these first-thing next week. [https://zoom.us/j/9889479453 Virtual office hours]: 3/26 10a-12p. [[Talk:New Media, Spring 2020/Schedule|Read More »]]
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| style="background-color:#F2F4F4; text-align: center; | 03/26
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 13
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 03/31
| [[w:Julian Dibbell|Julian Dibbell]]: “A Rape in Cyberspace” {{PDF}} • [[w:Sherry Turkle|Sherry Turkle]]: “Constructions and Reconstructions of Self in VR” {{PDF}} — Meet via [https://zoom.us/j/739514881?pwd=Ukt5QzUrdDNEQXZhbzJueStlTEEwQT09 Zoom]<ref>Don’t forget the meeting password: '''046337'''.</ref>
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 04/02
| Discuss any aspect of this week’s readings on the [https://discourse.grlucas.net/c/new-media/8 class forum]. WikiEdu [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-11 Week 11].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 14
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 04/07
| style="background-color:#D6EAF8;" | [[w:Janet Murray|Janet Murray]]: ''Hamlet on the Holodeck'' — Meet via [https://zoom.us/j/739514881?pwd=Ukt5QzUrdDNEQXZhbzJueStlTEEwQT09 Zoom]
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 04/09
| Discuss any aspect of ''Hamlet on the Holodeck'' on the [https://discourse.grlucas.net/c/new-media/8 class forum]. Work on Wikipedia Project
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 15
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 04/14
| style="background-color:#D6EAF8;" | Murray (cont.) — Meet via [https://zoom.us/j/739514881?pwd=Ukt5QzUrdDNEQXZhbzJueStlTEEwQT09 Zoom]
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 04/16
| Discuss any aspect of ''Hamlet on the Holodeck'' on the [https://discourse.grlucas.net/c/new-media/8 class forum]. Work on Wikipedia Project
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 16
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 04/21
| [[w:Ray Kurzweil|Ray Kurzweil]]: “[http://www.singularity.com/KurzweilFuturist.pdf Reinventing Humanity]” {{PDF}} • [[w:Bill Joy|Bill Joy]]: “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” {{PDF}} — Meet via [https://zoom.us/j/739514881?pwd=Ukt5QzUrdDNEQXZhbzJueStlTEEwQT09 Zoom]
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 04/23
| Discuss any aspect of this week’s readings on the [https://discourse.grlucas.net/c/new-media/8 class forum]. WikiEdu [https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Middle_Georgia_State_University/New_Media_(Spring_2020)/timeline#week-12 Week 12].
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| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 17
| style="background-color:#E1BEE7; text-align: center;" | 04/28
| Work on Wikipedia Project — Meet via [https://zoom.us/j/739514881?pwd=Ukt5QzUrdDNEQXZhbzJueStlTEEwQT09 Zoom] (optional)
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| style="background-color:#DCEDC8; text-align: center;" | 04/30
| Final exam: 10:30a–12:30p (Directions to follow)
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| style="background-color:#CCD1D1; text-align: center; font-weight:bold;" | 18
| style="background-color:#F2F4F4; text-align: center;" | 05/05
| style="background-color:#FADBD8" | Wikipedia Contribution (P1) Due.
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