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Class 4: New media: code, computer, and community

The WWW as a social phenomenon
- Cyber-everything, hyper-everything. "Hypercomic?" - "Hypergram?" - Hyperlink: OK - "Hypertypography?" - Explanation for Byron poem?
- Emergence of web as social phenomenon
- Changing literacies
Identity
- Corporate: web sites
- Individual: Email, Chat ...
- Communities
- URL issues
  - Addresses, stability, and the radio model
  - URN
Tools
- Search engines - using them, how they work. Ranking games and portal power.
- Statistics - the highs and lows of http
A new paradigm for research and publishing: raising the levels of exposure, collaboration, and accountability - see www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration

#	Title	Detail
1	Business Week. October 4, 1999. "Activists without borders." Pete Engardio
7	McLuhan, E. & Zingrone, F. (eds) 1995. Essential McLuhan. New York: Basic Books	Ch 14 A McLuhan Sourcebook 270-296
12	Scientific American. March 1997. "Filtering information on the internet." Paul Resnick
13	Scientific American. March 1997. "Interfaces for searching the web." Marti A. Hearst
14	Spender, D. 1995. Nattering on the net: women, power, and cyberspace. North Melbourne: Spinifex.	Ch 7 Women, power and cyberspace 161-247
15	Wired 5.03 (March 1997) "The World According to Eco."Interview of Umberto Eco by Lee Marshall	p 145-149, 194-5
-	Linguistic Exploration (Stephen Bird)	www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration