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Coursework
COMM 620: Science Fiction as Media Theory
- COMM620_SF/Class notes
- COMM620_SF/Dream machines
- COMM620_SF/Possiplex
- COMM620_SF/Nelson literature review
HIST 620:
COMM 620: Discourse Analysis
COMM 620: Public Sphere / Public Culture
Readings
- Schumpter, J. A. (). Capitalism, socialism and democracy.
- Gutmann & Thomson. (). What is deliberative democracy?
- Rawls, J. (). The idea of public reason.
COMM 647: Network Society
CTCS 688: Historiography
- Hastie, A. (2007). Cupboards of curiosity: Women, recollection, and film history. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Cupboards of curiosity review
- Open letter to hobbyists
- Open letter to hobbyists/Draft
- Open letter to hobbyists/Outline
- Hackers: Wizards of the electronic age. Directed by Fabrice Florin. 1985. San Francisco: Hackersvideo.com, 2007. DVD.
COMM 650: Survey theory and methods
Assignments
COMM 570: Economics of media industries
Readings
- Shapiro, C. & Varian, H. R. (1999) Information rules. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.
Wi-fi
COMM 610: Media Effects
COMM 610: Writing and the scholarly career
Reading
- Galloway, A. R. (2004). Protocol: How control exists after decentralization. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
- Rheingold, H. (1993) The virtual community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier. HarperPerennial: New York.
- Rutherford, J. (2005). Cultural students in the corporate university. Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 3, May, pp. 297-317.
Fidonet
- Interview with Tom Jennings, ROFLcon II, 1 May 2010.
CSCI 570 Analysis of Algorithms
- CSCI570/Class notes
- Prof. Shahriar Shamsian course page
- Kleinberg, J. & Tardos, É. (2005) Algorithm design. Pearson Education.
SWMS 560 Feminist Theory
Readings
- Alexander, M. J. (2005) Pedagogies of crossing. Durham: Duke.
- Boellstorff, T. (2010) But do not identify as gay: The lives of "MSM".
- Butler, J. (1993) Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of "sex". New York:Routledge.
- Dean, J. (2009) Democracy and other neoliberal fantasies. Durham: Duke University Press.
- Foucault, M. (1978) The history of sexuality: An introduction, Volume 1. New York: Vintage.
- Haraway, D. J. (2008) When species meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Hartman, S. (2007) Lose your mother: A journey along the atlantic slave route. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Mohanty, C. T. (2003) Feminism without borders: Decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity. Durham & London: Duke University Press.
- Serano, J. (2007) Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity. Berkeley: Seal Press.
- Stillers, H. (2003) "8. Mama's baby, papa's maybe: An american grammar book." Black, white, and in color: essays on American literature and culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Papers
- SWMS560/Midterm, engaging with Alexander's analysis of Bahamian law
- SWMS560/ACTA
- SWMS560/ACTA/Draft
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (leaked), January 18, 2010.
COMM 525 Comm Theory I
Cybernetics, Systems Theory
- Amhed, Elgazzar, Hegazi An overview of complex adaptive systems
- Capra, Fritjob. The Web of Life
- Johnson, Steven. Emergence: the connected lives of ants, cities, and software
Cultural Studies
- Carey, James W. (1989) Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Unwin Hyman, Boston.
- Kellner, Douglas. (19??) Communications vs. Cultural Studies: Overcoming the Divide. ??
Rhetorical criticism
- Black, E. (1978). Rhetorical criticism: a study in method. Madison:University of Wisconsin Press.
- Klumpp, J. F., and Hollihan, T. A. (1989). Rhetorical criticism as moral action. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 75, 84-87.
Comparative study of Fidonet, USENET
- Galloway, A. R. (2006). "Protocol". Theory Culture Society, 23, pp 317. doi: 10.1177/026327640602300241
- Klumpp, J. F., and Hollihan, T. A. (1989). "Rhetorical criticism as moral action". Quarterly Journal of Speech, 75, 84-87.
- Montfort, N. and Bogost, I. (2009). Platform studies. Cambridge:MIT Press.
- Moore, J.T.S. (2001). Revolution OS. Wonderview Productions, LLC.
- Scott, J. (2004). BBS: The Documentary. Bovine Ignition Systems.
- Fidonet notes
- USENET notes
- COMM525/Comparative study of Fidonet and USENET
COMM 526 Comm Theory II
Worth of Notice
- Worth of notice/Notes from wikipedia
- Worthy of notice/Open questions
- Worthy of notice/Draft
- Worthy of notice/Data
- Baker, N. (2008) "The charms of wikipedia." The New York Review of Books, 55:4, March 20. Retrieved from: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21131
- http://notabilia.net/
Para-social interaction
- Gross, L. (1996) Youre the first person Ive ever told: Letters to a fictional gay teen. In Michael Bronski (Ed.) Taking Liberties: Gay Men's Essays on Politics, Culture, and Sex, pp. 369-386. Richard Kasak Books.
- Gross, L. (2008) "Hollywoods closet still closed for business." Truthdig.com, November 26. Retrieved from: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/page4/20081126_hollywoods_closet_still_closed_for_business
- Horton, D. & Wohl, R. R. (2006) Mass communication and para-social interaction: Observations on intimacy at a distance. Particip@tions, Volume 3, Issue 1, May.
Cultivation theory
- Berger, P. (1967) The sacred canopy: Elements of a sociological theory of religion. New York: Anchor Books.
- Gerbner, G., Gross, L., Morgan, M., Signorielli, N., Shanahan, J. (2000?) "Growing up with television: Cultivation processes." J Bryant and D Zillmann, eds. Media Effects: Advances in Theory and Research, 2nd edition [Erlbaum, 2002], pp,43-67.
- Williams, D. (2006) "Virtual cultivation: online worlds, offline perceptions." Journal of Communication, 56:69-87. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00004.x
Culture as industry and ideology
- Peters, J. D. (2003) The subtlety of horkheimer and adorno: Reading "The Culture Industry". In Katz, E., Peters, J. D., Liebes, T., and Orloff, A. (Eds.), Canonic Text in Media Research (pp. 58-73). Cambridge:Polity.
- Horkheimer, M. & Adorno, T. W. (1972) The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception (John Cumming , Trans.) Dialectic of Enlightenment (pp. 120-167). New York: Herder and Herder.
- Raymond Williams, “Base and superstructure in marxist cultural theory,” [1973] in Problems in Materialism and Culture [Verso, 1980], pp. 31-49.
- Stuart Hall, “Encoding/decoding,” Stuart Hall, et. Al., eds. Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies 1972—79 [Hutchinson, 1980], pp. 128-137.
- Michael Gurevitch & Paddy Scannell, “Canonization achieved? Stuart hall’s ‘Encoding/decoding’,” Elihu Katz, et. Al., eds. Canonic Texts in Media Research [Polity, 2003], pp. 231-247.
- Stuart Hall, “The rediscovery of ‘ideology’: The return of the repressed in media studies,” Michael Gurevitch, et. Al., eds. Culture, Society and the Media [Methuen, 1982], pp. 56-90.
- Paul Lazarsfeld, “Administrative and critical communications research,” J D Peters and Peter Simonson, eds. Mass Communication and American Social Thought: Key Texts, 1919 – 1968 [Rowman and Littlefield, 2004], pp. 166-173.
- Pierre Bourdieu, “Introduction,” Distinction: A social critique of the judgement of taste [Harvard, 1984], pp. 1-7.
"Mass"
- Lang, K. & Lang, G. E. (2009) "Mass society, mass culture, and mass communication: The meaning of mass." International Journal of Communication, 3, pp. 998-1024.
Third-person effects
- Gunter, A. C. & Storey, J. D. (2003) "The influence of presumed influence." Journal of Communication, June, pp 199-214.
Political Economy
- McChesney, R. W. (1999) Rich media, poor democracy: Communication politics in dubious times. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Health
- Morgan, S. E., Movius, L., & Cody, M. J. (2009) "The power of narratives: The Effect of Entertainment Television Organ Donation Storylines on the Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviors of Donors and Nondonors." Journal of Communication 59, pp. 135–151. doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2008.01408.x
- Murphy, S. T., Frank, L. B., Moran, M. B., & Patnoe-Woodly, P. () "Involved, transported or emotional? Exploring the Determinants of Change in Knowledge, Attitudes and Behavior in Entertainment Education." Journal of communication.
COMM 550 Quantitative research methods in communication
Methods
- Williams, Frederick. (1992) Reasoning with Statistics: How to read quantitative research.
Models
- Anol Bhattacherjee. (2001) Understanding Information Systems Continuance: An Expectation-Confirmation Model. MIS Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3, Sep., pp. 351-370
Project
- Continuance and Video Hosting Services
- Continuance and Video Hosting Services/IRB
- Continuance and Video Hosting Services/Survey
COMM 552 Qualitative research methods in communication
Advice, HOWTO
- Sandvig, C. (2009) How technical is technology research? Acquiring and deploying technical knowledge in social research projects. In Hargittai, E. (Ed.) Research confidential, pp. 141-163. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
- Williams, D. & Xiong, L. (2009) Herding cats online: Real studies of virtual communities. In Hargittai, E. (Ed.) Research Confidential, pp. 122-140. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Global ethnography
- Gille, Z. & Ó Riain, S. (2002) Global ethnography. Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 28, pp. 271-295. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3069243
Trace ethnography
- Geiger, R. S. and Ribes, D. (2010) The Work of Sustaining Order in Wikipedia: The Banning of a Vandal. In Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM, New York (2010).
- COMM552/Trace ethnography notes
- COMM552/Trace ethnography response paper
Audience research
- Seiter, E. (1999) "Qualitative audience research". Television and New Media Audiences. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- Hall, S. (1989) Reflections upon the encoding/decoding model: An interview with Stuart Hall. In J. Cruz & J. Lewis (Eds.), Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception (pp. 253-274). Boulder:Westview Press.
Case studies
- Stake, R. E. (2000) Qualitative case studies. In Denzin, N. K. & Y. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research (443-466). Thousand Oaks: Sage.
Materiality
- Foucault, M. (1994) Power::Essential works of Foucault, 1954-1984. James D. Faubion (Ed.) Robert Hurley and Others (Trans.) New York: The New Press.
- Gray, H. (2005) "Is (cyber) space the place?" In Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation, pp. 133-142. Ewing, NJ: University of California Press. Retrieved from: http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uscisd/Doc?id=10074093&ppg=142
- Harding, S. () "Introduction: Is there a feminist method?" In Feminism and methodology: Social science issues, pp. 1-14. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
- McHoul, A. & Grace, W. (1997) A foucault primer: Discourse, power and the subject. New York: New York University Press.
Ethnography
Focus group
vBulletin
- vBulletin/Outline
- vBulletin/Draft
- vBulletin/Code
- Barry, C. A. (1998). Choosing qualitative data analysis software: Atlast/ti and Nudist compared. Sociological Research Online, 3(3). Retrieved from: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/3/3/4.html
- Burroughs-Lange, S. G., Lange, J. (1993). Denuded data! Grounded theory using the nudist computer analysis program: In research the challenge to teacher self-efficacy posed by students with learning disabilities in australian education. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Atlanta, Ga, April 12-16.
- Sack, W. (2000) "Conversation map: A content-based usenet newsgroup browse". Proceedings from IUI, New Orleans, pp. 233-240.
COMM 620: Audio Culture
Queering the Voice
Radio and personal computing
- COMM620/Listening In Outline (essay)
- COMM620/Hobbyists (reaction essay to Listening In)
Playback platform analysis
- COMM620/Playback: in search of popular listening practices, 18 dec 05
Readings
- Connor, Steven. (2000) Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism. Oxford University Press, NYC.
- Douglas, Susan J. (1999) Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination. New York: Random House.
- Koestenbaum, Wayne. (1993) The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. Poseidon Press, NY.
- Roland Barthes, "The Grain of the Voice," in Image, Music, Text (New York: Hill and Wang, 1977), p. 157. Translated by Steven Heath.
- Suisman, D. (2009) Selling sounds: The commercial revolution in american music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
- Wald, Gayle. (2002) ""I Want It That Way": Teenybopper Music and the Girling of Boy Bands." Genders 35.
Noise and social music
Research assistant
Teaching assistant
COMM 202 Communication and Technology
Lecture
- COMM202/Origins of digital culture
- COMM202/Origins of digital culture/Outline
- COMM202/Hip hop approach
Readings
- Boddy, William. (2004). "The amateur, the housewife, and the salesroom floor: Promoting post-war US television" in New media and popular imagination, pp 44-55. New York: Oxford University Press.
COMM 371 Censorship and the Law
Cases
- BURSTYN v. WILSON, 343 U.S. 495, 1952
- RED LION BROADCASTING CO v FCC, 395 U.S. 367 (1969)
- MILLER v. CALIFORNIA, 413 U.S. 15 (1973)
- MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO v TORNILLO, 418 U.S. 241 (1974)
- HERCEG v. HUSTLER, No. 85-2833, 1987
- MCCOLLUM v. CBS, 202 Cal.App.3d 989, 1988
- SABLE v. FCC, No. 88-515, 1989
- RENO v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)
- US v PLAYBOY, No. 98-1682, 2000
Additional reading
- FCC 08-183 Considering Free Press and Public Knowledge Complaints Regarding Comcast
- Lewis, A. (2007). Freedom for the thought that we hate: A biography of the first amendment. New York: Basic Books.
Compton cookout
COMM 395
Fall 2011
Fall 2010
Readings
Presentations, Conferences, Lecture notes
- FCX
- DML2010
- ROFLcon II
- VidCon 2010
- Critical code studies 2010
- OVC 2010, Skate video notes
- OA Week 2010, Univ of Redlands
- DML 2011
- Visiting UCSB MUS 168
- Fikentscher, Kai. "There's not a problem I can't fix, 'cause I can do it in the mix": On the Performative Technology of 12-Inch Vinyl in Music and Technoculture, Eds. Lysloff, René T. A. & Gay Jr., Leslie C. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press.
- Mixtapes
- Critical code studies 2011
Dissertation
- List of Hobbyist periodicals
Lunches
- Bailenson, Jeremy. Transformed Social Interaction in Virtual Reality. 19 October 2009
- Fowler, James. Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Netowrks and How They Shape Our Lives. 23 November 2009.
- Saltzman, Joe. Image of the Gay Journalist. 16 November 2009.
- Suisman, David. Sound and sense. January 11, 2009.
- Nardi, Bonnie A. Value and Identity: Extrusions of a Video game. 25 January 2010
- Carpini, Michael X. Delli. Talking together: Public deliberation and political participation in america. 1 February 2010.
- McChesney and Nichols, News and democracy, 19 April 2010.
- Powers, Gerry, 20 September 2010
- Deibert, Ron. The hidden geopolitics of cyberspace. September 27, 2010.
- Lange, Patricia G. Kids on Youtube: Prospects for Civic Engagement, 11 October 2010
- Sheer, Bob. Journalism and the financial crisis. 6 December 2010
- Kellner, Douglas. Media Spectacle. 10 January 2011
- Molina-Guzman, Isabel. Symbolic colonization. 7 March 2011
- Info-hactivism, 24 Aug 2011
- George A. Barnett, International Telecommunication Networks, 24 October 2011
- Alison Hearn, cartes de visite, 23 January 2012
Research Groups
Visiting speakers
- Hundt, Reed. Future of international broadband and practically everything else. April 7, 2010.
- Romero, John. Masters among us. 6 October 2010.
- Jordan, Scott. Network neutrality proposal. 16 February 2011.
Youth and Civic Engagement
Messageboard Toolkit
- Scrape the Web: Strategies for programming websites that don't expect it, Asheesh, PyCon presentation
- Threads to watch
Meeting notes
- Lori, Racebending, Avatar the last airbender, 17 Sep 09
- Lana, Show and Tell, using social capital to study fandoms, 5 Nov 2009
- Melissa, Invisible Children, 12 November 2009
- Civic/Fall09Debrief, 3 December 2009
- Joshua, Vox Pop Experiments, 12 January 2010
- White paper brainstorm, 19 January 2010
- Fiske, Hartley, 26 Jan 2010
- Skype meeting with Stephen Duncombe, 9 February 2010
- Meeting with Joseph Kahne, 23 February 2010
- Myra Donnelley, Brave New Films, 2 March 2010
- Audiences and publics, 9 March 2010
- Johanna Blakley, Norman Lear Center, 30 March 2010
- Meeting with Sarah Banet-Weiser, 6 April 2010
- Summer planning, 20 April 2010
- Discussion guide, 2 June 2010
White paper
Dude, where's my video?
- Dude wheres my video, last updated Nov 11, 2010 for SEM 2010
- Dude, where's my video?/Outline
- Dude, where's my video?/Notes
- Dude, where's my video?/Draft
Readings
- Brafman, O. & Beckstrom, R. A. (2006). The starfish and the spider. New York: Penguin.
- John Fiske, "Introduction," Media Matters: Everyday Culture and Political Change (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996)
- John Fiske, "Politics," Understanding Popular Culture (New York: Routledge, 1989)
- Hartley, J. (2007) Television Truths: Forms of Knowledge in Popular Culture. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Weiser-Banet, S. (DRAFT) Branding the post-feminist self: Girls' video production and youtube.
- Weiser-Banet, S. (DRAFT) The writings on the wall: Street art, convergence and the authentic.
Gender and Virtual Worlds
Center for Excellence in Teaching
Sketches
- Thumb saver
- Grey tuesday
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Second Life
- YouTube Decay
- Auto-tune
- Worthy of notice
- Lil Jon
- Fan music video
- Zoetrope
- Dm compression
- Black bloc
- Interactive fiction by SMS
- Learning to code
- When homepages disappear
- Dance crazes
Pricescope
Wi-fi
S-100
Messageboards
- How is the audience imagined in the moment of submitting a post or starting a thread?
- Anderson, B. (1983). Imagined communities. Verso.
- Is logging in a kind of media ritual?
Radio
Cyber-dystopianism
- Lanier, J. (2010). You are not a gadget. New York: Knopf.
- Lanier and Williams, 15 September 2001
"You leave the movie with the sinking feeling that the democratic utopia breathlessly promised by Facebook and its Web brethren is already gone with the wind."
- Rich, F. (2010). "Facebook politicians are not your friends". New York Times, October 9. Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/opinion/10rich.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Hackers, Hobbyists, Tinkerers
What happened to all those people who bought an Altair kit but couldn't ever get it to work? Or they got it to work, played with it for 2 weeks, and put it in the closet? For whom was it not cathartic?
- Computing history
- Los angeles personal computing history
- Understanding the ISP
- Richard Butsch
- Coleman Hackers curriculum
- Rheingold notes, 20 Oct 2010
- 386BSD and GNU/Linux
- Illustrated computer literature
- Shareware
- Computing people
- Hobbyist periodicals
Locations
Professional development
- Professional development day, 5 February 2010, publishing, teaching

