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Agenda for Thursday:

1. Attendance
2. Introductions (Tell us your name and what was something fun you did on the computer recently, or something not fun) (did in 4′o clock section but not 6 o’clock)
3. Announced HW 5 deadline extended–since it requires you to provide links to your classmates’ blogs but so many students need to create new blogs, we’ll wait until more of them have been created.
4. Returned HW 1, collected new printouts of HW 1 where necessary. Students who are creating new blogs asked (preferably) to email Tracy the new address as soon as possible, or at the very least bring a printout to the next class. See “How Create a New Blog” and “How to Import Posts“.
5. Announce pod assignments.
6. Group work defining types of social computing.
7. Break
8. Un-quiz on Toward A More Participatory Democracy… Not a quiz! Discuss. the reading.
9. Watch YouTube video of The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on Crossfire. (We didn’t get to this in the 4 o’clock class, will do Tuesday.) This appearance was referred to in the reading “Toward a More Participatory Democracy,” and includes an argument for real debate in journalism. As Kline puts it, “newspapers and television in practice now routinely define objectivity and balance to mean nothing more than allowing two partisan spokespeople from opposing ends of the political spectrum to scream at each other for two minutes or two paragraphs–as if that has anything to do with getting at the truth” (Kline 9). (Watch the Crossfire clip here.)

Check your calendar to see what assignments are due Monday. Visits by Writing Center tutors next week. Printouts of HW 2 and HW 3 were not collected. You should print out all your blog posts and bring them to class, but they do not have to be handed in at every class.

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