III. Contexts of CMC
CMC in organizations
- Class session 7 (7 Mar)--Homework 5 due:
Turn in a brief (1-3
pages) description of your final project.
- Visit by Davis Foulger
-
Sproull, L., & Kielser, S. (1991). Connections. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
-
Zuboff, S. (1984). In the age of the smart machine. (Chapter
10: Panoptic Power and the Social Text.) NY: Basic Books.
pp. 362--386.
-
Group interaction and decision support systems
- Class session 8 (21 Mar)--
Field trip to IBM
- Class session 9 (28 Mar)--
PAPER ASSIGNMENT DUE: CMC in organizations:
What do we have to gain; what might we lose?
- Nunamaker, J. F. Dennis, A. R., Alacich, J. S., Vogel, D. R., &
George, J. F. (1991). Electronic meeting systems to support
group work. Communications of the ACM, 34(7), 40-61.
- Poole, M. S., & DeSanctis, G. (1990). Understanding the use of
group decision support systems: The theory of adaptive
structuration. In J. Fulk and C. Steinfeld (Eds.)
Organizations and communication technology (pp. 173-193).
Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
- Chidambaram, L., Bostrom, R. P., & Wynne, B. E., (1991). A
longitudinal study of the impact of group decision support
systems on group development. Journal of Management
Information Systems, 7(3), 7-25.
CMC and the academy
- Class session 10 (4 Apr) --
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT DUE: Find and critque one electronic
journal, eavesdrop for a week on one academic list, or interview
an instructor or 3 students who have participated in a course
taught partially online.
-
Harnad, S. (1991). Post-Gutenberg galaxy: The fourth revolution
in the means of production of knowledge. Public-Access
Computer Systems Review, 2, 29-41. (Or send an e-mail
message to listserv@UHUPVM1 with the following message: Get
Harnad PRV2N1).
-
Publication by electronic mail takes physics by storm. (1993,
Feb. 26). Science, 259, 1246-1248.
-
Faigley, L. (1992). The achieved utopia of the networked
classroom. In Fragments of rationality: Postmodernity and
the subject of composition (pp. 163-199). Pittsburgh, PA:
University of Pittsburgh Press.
CMC in society and culture
Building communities in cyberspace
- Class session 11 (11 Apr)
-
Rheingold, H. (1993).
A slice of life in my virtual community.
In L. Harasim (Ed.) Global networks (pp. 57-80).
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
-
Schuler, D. (1994). Community networks: Building a new
participatory medium. Communications of the ACM, 37(1),
39-51.
-
Rheingold, H. (1993). The virtual community: Homesteading on
the electronic frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Chapter 5 (Multiple User Dungeons and Alternate Identities,
pp. 145 - 175.
-
Gurak, Laura J. "A Community Protest in Cyberspace: What
Happened With Lotus MarketPlace." in Computer-Mediated
Communication ed. Susan Herring. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins, forthcoming 1994.
-
Kramarae, Cheris, & Taylor, H. Jeanie. (1993). Women and men on
electronic networks: A conversation or a monologue? In H.
J. Taylor, C. Kramarae, & M. Ebben (Eds.) Women,
information technology and scholarship. Urbana: Center for
Advanced Study.
-
Recommended:
Marsden, W., McIntosh, A., Adoph, C. (1993, August 14). The
Fabrikant file. The Gazette, 11-20(?).
Re-visioning democracy in cyberspace
- Class session 12 (18 Apr)
- Class session 13 (25 Apr)--
PAPER ASSIGNMENT DUE class: Television failed to
realize its potential as a democratic medium. What can or will
make the prospects better for CMC?
- Herring, S. (1993). Gender and democracy in computer mediated
communication. Electronic Journal of Communication, 3(2).
(Or send an e-mail message to Comserve@Vm.Its.Rpi.Edu with
the command: Get Herring V3N293).
-
Winner, L. (1986). The whale and the reactor. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. Chapter 6 pp. 98-117.
-
Rheingold, H. (1993). The virtual community: Homesteading on
the electronic frontier. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
Chapters 9 (Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists) and
10 (Disinformocracy), pp. 241-300.
- Hess, Charles (forthcoming). Hypertext and democracy paper.
Previous Course Section: Nature of the Medium
Next Course Section: Conference on CMC: Promises and Perils