Schedule

Week 1: Introductions

• Syllabus

• Familiarize yourself with NCSU G Suite

 Week 2: Developing a Theory of Technology & Writing

• Latour, Bruno. “Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts.”

• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 1
• Thompson, Clive. “We’re All Coders Now“

• Sign up for Codeacademy
• Sign up for NCSU WordPress. Use “eng317” in the title.

Week 3: Digital Rhetoric

• Eyman, Douglas. “Defining and Locating Digital Rhetoric.”
• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 2
• Krug, Ch. 1

• Brikman “You Are What You Document“
• Krug, Ch. 2

• Due Friday: Personal Digital Ecology Research, data week 1

Week 4: Complex Rhetorical Ecologies

• Lehrer, Jonah. “The Buddy System”
• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 3
• Krug, Ch. 3
• Owoseje, Toyin. “Homeless people are wearing barcodes so people can scan them to give donations.”
• Businesstoday.in. “Beggars in China go cashless, but there’s more than what meets the eye.“
• Harris, Leigh. “QR codes for the homeless? Why hackers’ naivety is still a force for good.”

• Due Friday: Personal Digital Ecology Research, data week 2

Week 5: Usability, Access(ing) & Social Justice

• Norman, Don. “Why bad technology dominates our lives, according to Don Norman.”
• Nielsens 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 4
• WUSA9.com. “‘Safe Night’ app to help domestic violence survivors“
• Harwell, Drew. “The Accent Gap.”

• Computer System Usability Questionnaire
• System Usability Scale

• Due Friday: Personal Digital Ecology Research, submission

 Week 6: Dark Patterns & Privacy

• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 6
• Yeung, Ainsley. “Dark Pattern Design: It’s Downright Unethical & Irresponsible.”
• Nakasima, Ryan. “Google tracks your movements, like it or not.”
• Halper, Evan. “Your phone and TV are tracking you, and political campaigns are listening in.”
• Miranda, Leticia. “Thousands Of Stores Will Soon Use Facial Recognition, And They Won’t Need Your Consent.“

• Review Lab
• Due Friday: Personal Digital Ecology Research, feedback

 Week 7: Style and Purpose

• Anderson, Chris, and Michael Wolff. “The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet”.
• Krug, Chs. 4 & 5
• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 9

• Due Tuesday: Personal Digital Ecology Research, revision plan memo

• Fall Break
• Due Friday: Personal Digital Ecology Research, final

 Week 8: Infrastructure & ARRANGEMENT

• Bilgil, Melih – “The History of the Internet“
• Krug, Ch. 6
• Fenton & Lee, Ch. 7

 Week 9: Writing Design

• TBA
• Design guides
  • NCSU Logo
  • UCF Graphic Standard
  • MSU Logo

• Writing Markup Lab
• Due Friday: Writing Markup Lab 1
  

• Friday: Drop/Revision Deadline

 Week 10: Citizens, Democracy, and RhetOps

•  Bastos, Marco and Dan Mercea. “The Public Accountability of Social Platforms“
• Singer, Natasha. “‘Weaponized Ad Technology’: Facebook’s Moneymaker Gets a Critical Eye“
• BONUS: Center for Civic Design. “The Epic Journey of American Voters.”

Pick one

• Tufekci, Zeynep. “It’s the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech.“

OR

• Tufekci, Zeynep. “How social media took us from Tahrir Square to Donald Trump.”

• Writing Markup Lab
• Due Friday: Writing Markup Lab 2
  

 Week 11: Power, Crowds, Participation, & #Riots

• Wasik, Bill. “#Riot: Self-Organized, Hyper-Networked Revolts—Coming to a City Near You.”
• Tufekci, Zeynep. “Twitter, Tear Gas, Revolution. How Protest Powered by Digital Tools Is Changing the World.”

• Writing Markup Lab
• Due Friday: Writing Markup Lab 3
  

 Week 12: Community Informatics

• Gurstein, Michael. “What is Community Informatics (and Why Does It Matter)?” Chs 1 & 2
• Gurstein, Michael. “Gurstein’s Community Informatics“. Blog.

• Writing Markup Lab: Check out making your own Google map
• Due Friday: Writing Markup Lab 4

Week 13: Social Net/Working & Social Production

• Tiziana Terranova. “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy”
• Kreiss, Daniel, Megan Finn, and Fred Turner. “The Limits of Peer Production.”
• Nardi, Bonnie A., Steve Whittaker, and Heinrich Schwarz. “It’s Not What You Know It’s Who You Know.”

• Due Friday: Designing Web Portfolio, submission

 Week 14: Curation

• Krug, Ch. 11
• Fenton & Lee, Chs. 9 & 12
• Good, Robin. “Real-time News Curation, Newsmastering, and Newsradars: The Complete Guide, Parts 1–6,”
• Michael Hall, “Content Curation Tools: The Ultimate List for Beginners and Pros” Curata.com

 Week 15: ‘bots as audience, ‘bots as authors

• Lohr, Steve. “Computer-Generated Articles Are Gaining Traction – The New York Times“
• NPR. “Attention White-Collar Workers: The Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs“
• Carp, Sam. “How the USL is using AI-powered video to reach a global fanbase.”

Bonus: Goodyear, Dana “Can the Manufacturer of Tasers Provide the Answer to Police Abuse?“

• Review Lab
• Due Friday: Designing Web Portfolio, feedback
  

 Week 16: How to Survive the Rhetor ‘bot Uprising

• epipheo. “How To Survive A Robot Uprising (aka Robopocalypse)“. YouTube.
• Finley, Klint. “Coders Can’t Put Writers Out Of A Job Yet, But We’d Better Watch Our Backs“
• Keohan, Joe. “What News-Writing Bots Mean for the Future of Journalism“

• Due Tuesday: Designing a Web Portfolio, revision plan

• Kaiser, Ted. “The Internet Cyborg“
• NPR. “How Russian Twitter Bots Pumped Out Fake News During The 2016 Election.”
• Calderwood, Alex, Erin Riglin, and Shreya Vaidyanathan “How Americans Wound Up on Twitter’s List of Russian Bots.”

• Due Friday: Designing a Web Portfolio, resubmission