Week 1 (9 September):
Introduction
Resources
- Recording of the introduction will be made available via Brightspace.
- Watch knowledge clips about WordPress (apologies for the audio quality):
- Installing (useful if you are interested in getting your own WordPress powered websites, but not necessary for your course activity)
- Posts (watch this before making your first post)
- Themes (useful if you are interested in getting your own WordPress powered websites, but not necessary for your course activity)
- Gutenberg WordPress Editor FAQ (wordpress.com, 2018)
- The History of WordPress (WPBeginner.com, 2018)
- Creative Commons Images for non-Copyright materials for your blogs. You can also try Google Image Search with Usage Rights, Wikimedia Commons, or Archive.org.
- Video on copyright by Youtuber Tom Scott
Read
NB here and below, “read”means before next class. In addition, unless hyperlinked, the texts can be found on Brightspace.
- Science Blogging: The Essential Guide
- Chapter 1 (Wilcox, 2016)
- Chapter 11 (Lillie, 2016)
Things to do
NB Here and below, “Fun” means it is an optional thing to do.
- Sign up for the course blog via digmedia.lucdh.nl/login,
- when you choose a username, make sure I can relate it back somehow to your real name (if you use a pseudonym, let me know via Teams it is you).
- familiarize yourself with the WordPress CMS Gutenberg editor
- Make sure you know how to create posts
- Learn about the Roles plugin (i.e. understand how you can control the visibility of your content), make sure to put your blog in the right category for your group.
Week 2 (16 September):
A Hypergloss History of the Digital
Resources
- Lecture slides can be found here.
Read
- Digital Media and Society, Chapter 1 (Lindgren 2017)
Things to do
- Get to know about the basic workings of the web through Part 1 of the Working with the Web tutorial.
- Include at least one image, of which you have use rights, in your upcoming blog post.
- Fun:
- The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage comic.
- We Live in Public (link to Full Documentary)
Week 4 (23 September)
The World Brain(drain)
Resources
- Lecture slides can be found here.
Read
- The Brain Organization of the Modern World, in H.G. Wells’ World Brain (1938).
- The Anatomy of a Search Engine (Brin and Page, 1998).
Things to do
- Familiarize yourself with HTML and WordPress’ Code Editor, through Part 2 of the Working with the Web tutorial.
- Fun: Watch Google and the World Brain documentary on Archive.org
Week 4 (30-9):
The Valley where Gold turned into Silicon (and back again)
Resources
- Lecture recording will be made available through Brightspace.
- Lecture slides will be made available here.
Read
- Silicon Valley Explained in Adam Fisher’s Valley of Genius
- Sillicon Valley by Christine Finn in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
Things to do
- Fun:
- Learn how to make a podcast via the knowledge clip on Brightspace.
- Listen to some episodes of the Valley of Genius podcast.
- Read Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- Check out the Hacker Quarterly or the MIT Gallery of Hacks
- Read about or watch the origin of “Information wants to be free”
- Stay safe and healthy during (digital) Leids Ontzet!
Week 5 (7 October):
The Ego Online
Read
- The I in Internet in Jia Tolentino’s (2019) Trick Mirror.
- ‘The Presentation of Self in the Online World’: Goffman and the study of online identities. Bullingham and Vasconcelos, 2013
Things to do
- Fun: Learn a bit about making videos with the knowledge clip on Brightspace.
Week 6 (14 October):
The Network Society
Read
- Maffesoli’s From Society to Tribal Communities
- Pick and read one (or more) of the chapters on Digital Communities
- Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life
- Pearce and Artemesia’s Communities of Play
- Miller’s Tales from Facebook
- Burges and Green’s YouTube
Things to do
- Fun: Spend a day offline!