Primary Text Options Univ200 -- Spring 2015

Primary Text Options Univ200 -- Spring 2015 For UNIV200 in Spring 2015, all students must select one of these primary texts and analyze it for the Unit 1 (critical analysis) paper. You will be assembled into small groups of 3-4 based on a common interest in one of these texts, so please identify your first, second, and third choices. We will sign up for these by the end of Wednesday 1/21, which is the first day of class after the add/drop deadline. Subsequent to Unit One, each student will find research to help them extend and enhance the inquiry questions he or she developed to analyze the text, so bear in mind that you be studying this text (and the issues that surround it) for the rest of this term. Below you can find descriptions of primary texts, some hints about future directions in Unit 2 to help you make your selection, and a slug that you should use to tag any post or bookmarks you make when researching later on in the semester. Primary Text Future Slug! directions Entrepreneurship / we ownership through online outlets and research into gofundyourself various non-conventional sources. Examples: Kickstarter, DIY gofundme, torrent sites, soundcloud campaigning, piracy and intellectual property RPG? OMG!: Gaming communities and their significance to our research into yougameme lives IRL Examples: League of Legends Tournaments, gaming as online personae employment/athletics, appeal of indie & retro game love construction, electronic tribes, hyperreality Social media as military tools / cyberwarfare / weaponized apps research into smdrones Example: ISIS Twitter Hack new media terrorist tactics and organizing, swift global propaganda Intentionality vs. usage of online platforms: What comes from research into life apphack beyond the original purpose of creation. Example: Snapchat as hacking sneaky porn outlet, Pinterest as female Reddit, Youtube as MTV practices, constructionism for social gains, productivity and ingenuity Digital curation: The projects we can assemble and display research into the kidA online. Examples: net.artists, online galleries, soundcloud libraries avant-garde, digital curation and collection Professional amateurism: The things we can say/do and get research into amapro attention for only because of the open web. Examples: Flickr and social norms and Instagram posts, anything resembling a livejournal, comments on expectations, user-generated sites visual literacy/rhetoric, collective conscious Internet parodies: Find and analyze an example of a SM parody of research into the parodicity some aspect of culture that could only exist because of the open psychology of web and the fact that people can find an audience for basically derivative anything. Examples: Bad Lip Reading, Celebrities Read Mean humor, internet Tweets, How it Should have Ended, Drunk History, everything on comedy, irony & Funny or Die parody, crowdsourcing taste Singularity alert! Evidence that the internet is thinking for itself. Research into apocalypto Example: twitter bots like Pentametron or Horse eBooks, artificial http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/ intelligence, the robot apocalypse, the uncanny valley, and posthumanism Educational uses for some aspect or application of social media, Research into edutech even if it seems contrary to the intended purpose of the app. innovative Example: webquests, assigning a class to contsruct or edit a pedagogy, wikipedia entry together, Lumosity.com technology in the classroom, brain mapping and enhancement Virus!! option 1: Find something that has gone “virall” on the web research into the goodvirus and analyze why. Example: Charlie bit my finger. Keyboard Cat. psychological or Hamsters eating burritos. That one video of the large guy rocking sociological out to a Korean pop song from fifteen years ago that broke the appeal of internet ingenuousness, innocence, or naivete; temporary instances in which behavior that would embarrass us in real life are seen as suddenly cool or virtuous Virus!! option 2: Find something that has gone viral because users research into the ironyvirus are mocking the SM content. Examples: Trolololo, Rick-Rolling, , psychology of the “All Your Base are Belong to Us” meme scapegoating, ritual sacrifice, or bullying; internet cruelty and its relation to anonymity YouTube gurus: Find a video (or channel of videos) that is heavily research into youguru followed or commented upon, and analyze why it’s popular or has celebrity, the such a devoted following. Example: PewDiePie, psychology of niche expertise, electronic tribes, and DIY culture Social media as marketing outreach: find an example of intriguing research into popups product placement or innovative ad presence, which will probably business models, be annoying, and then analyze how and why businesses have advertising, and resorted to such tactics marketing Memes option 1: a meme used for social protest or solidarity - an research into huds expression of defiant identity and frustration. Examples: racial profiling, #HandsUpDontShoot,, #ICantBreathe, #CrimingWhileWhite, police brutality, #BlackLivesMatter the history of American racial tension. Memes option 2: a meme used to spread awareness, usually to research into alsibc promote knowledge not commonly known. Example: how to campaign #IceBucketChallenge (#ALS), esp. as opposed to #CD10 for awareness, (https://twitter.com/conanobrien/status/532996440818073600) public health promotion, particular health crises. Memes option 3: a meme that actively engages SM users to change research into polimeme some public policy or effect activist change. Usually the larger the collective action, number of shares, the more the movement seems a success. public policy, Examples: #BringBackOurGirls, #JeSuisCharlie political expression, what makes a social movement, what constitutes success for social movements. .

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