• Syllabus

• What is Digital Technology and Culture?

• Simon Sinek, “How Great Leaders Inspire Action” (2009) (video, TED Talk)

• Ze Frank, “Web Playroom” (2010) (video)
• Sherry Turkle, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk” (2015)

• Douglas Rushkoff, “Time: Do Not Always Be On,” “Place: Live in Person,” from Program or Be Programmed (2010)
• danah boyd, “Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle,” from The Social Media Reader (2012)

• Jill Walker Rettberg, “Serial Selfies,” from Seeing Ourselves Through Technology (2014)

• Watch before class: Brandon Stanton, “On How to Approach Strangers in the Street” (2014)
• Humans of New York

• E.M. Forster, “The Machine Stops” (1909) (pdf short story)
• Blog 1 due before class on Blackboard

• David Gauntlett, “Conclusion,” from Making Is Connecting (2011)  (pdf, book chapter)

(In-Class Activity) Social Media Project: Form Groups and Assign Roles

• Select group members, brainstorm topics, plan meeting times
• Submit your group’s information to this form.

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

(In-Class Activity) Social Media Project: Design Your Project and Gather Contributions

(In-Class Activity) Social Media Project: Gather Contributions 

• Meet in class, and use class time to gather new contributions

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

(In-Class Activity) Social Media Project: Peer Discussions 

• Divide class into three groups, sorted by role: 1) project leaders, 2) technology specialists, and 3) communications experts
• Focus on large-scale issues and questions
• Each group member should be prepared to share the group’s progress and vision

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

(In-Class Activity) Social Media Project: Submit a Draft for Peer Review 

• Divide class into group-pairs
• Focus on details
• Each group should bring a rough draft of the project to share with another group

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

• Social Media Project: Present the Story of Your Project

• Groups 1-5 present

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

• Social Media Project: Present the Story of Your Project 

• Groups 6-10 present

• David Sedaris, “Stepping Out”
• David Eagleman, excerpt from Sum (2009)
• Douglas Rushkoff, “Choice: You May Always Choose None of the Above” [print textbook]

• Rose Eveleth, “How Self-Tracking Apps Exclude Women” (2014)
• Roni Caryn Rabin, “How Period Trackers Have Changed Girl Culture” (2015)

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

Disability and Knowledge

• Leeann Hunter, “The Embodied Classroom: Deaf Gain in Multimodal Composition and Digital Studies” (2015)

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

Complexity of Human Experience

• Virginia Woolf, excerpt from Mrs Dalloway (1925) [pdf, book excerpt]
• Douglas Rushkoff, “Complexity: You Are Never Completely Right” [print book]
• In-class resources: #oneSecond

• Charlie Brooker (creator), “The Entire History of You” (S1E3) Black Mirror (2011)
• Reading Quiz (Self-Tracking, Gender, Disability, Complexity, Entire History)

• Will Oremus, “Who Controls Your Facebook Feed” (2016)

• Adrienne LaFrance, “People’s Deepest, Darkest Google Searches Are Being Used Against Them” (2015)

No class meeting today! Happy Spring Break!

Project production

Introduction to Design Thinking

• Read: Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things (2013)
• Resource: Defensive architecture

• Read: “How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon” (2015)
• Read: “Coding Diversity into Keyboards One Emoji At a Time” (2014)

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

Human Agency and Design

• Ray Bradbury, “The Veldt” (1950)

• Bret Victor, “A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design” (2011)
• In-class resources: MakeShapeChange

• Reading Quiz
• Discuss Design Thinking Project

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

Human-Centered Design Activity

• Design Thinking: Learn How to Solve Problems Like a Designer
• An Introduction to Design Thinking: Process Guide
• The Gift-Giving Project (Worksheets)

Meet in the Bundy Reading Room

Human-Centered Design Activity

• Design Thinking: Learn How to Solve Problems Like a Designer
• An Introduction to Design Thinking: Process Guide
• The Gift-Giving Project (Worksheets)

Peer review Design Thinking Project

• Write a formal letter (use a formal letter template in Microsoft Word, or similar) addressed to your professor that evaluates your learning achievements this semester (one to two pages, single-spaced).
• Select 3 examples (from projects, activities, lectures, or readings) to analyze. Be sure to include relevant quotes, screenshots, or summaries from the examples you select.
• Your objective is to demonstrate what kinds of learning took place this semester and how this learning could be applied to future endeavors.