Virtual Communities/Social Media syllabus by Howard Rheingold

Here is the syllabus for a class Howard Rheingold is teaching at UC Berkeley this semester.

Here are the readings

* Ferdinand Tonnies, excerpts On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

* Barry Wellman, The Network Community

* Marshall Berman, All That is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity, 1988 (New York, Penguin), pp 41-60. (READER ONLY)

* Ray Oldenberg, The Great Good Place , Chapters One and Two (Page numbers TK) (READER ONLY)

# Ronald E. Rice, James E. Katz, Sophia Acord, Kiku Dasgupta, Kalpana David,92004) "Personal Mediated Communication and the Concept of Community in Theory and Practice," in P. Kalbfleisch (ed), Communication and Community, Communication Yearbook 28, Mahwah NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp 1-20 attached

# Amy Bruckman, (2006), "A New Perspective on "Community" and its Implications for Computer-Mediated Communication Systems," In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts (pp. 616-621). Montréal, Québec, 22-27 April, 2006. available online.

# Barry Wellman and Milena Julia, (1999), "Netsurfers Don't Ride Alone: Virtual Communities As Communities," in Communities in Cyberspace, Kollock and Smith, eds., Routledge, available online

* Licklider, J. C. R., & R. W. Taylor. (1968). "The computer as a communication device," Science and Technology, April. Republished in SRC Research Report 61, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1990. Available online as PDF

* Howard Rheingold, (1992) "A Slice of Life in My Virtual Community," available online.

* Fred Turner, "Where the counterculture met the new economy: the WELL and the origins of virtual community," Technology and Culture, Volume 46, Number 3, July 2005, pp. 485-512 available online as PDF.

# Howard Rheingold, (1993) "The Heart of The Well," from The Virtual Community, available online.

# Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar, (1990) The Lessons of Lucasfilms Habitat, available online

# Trebor Scholz, (2007) "A History of the Social Web" available online

* Manuel Castells, "Why Networks Matter," Network Logic: Who Governs in an Interconnected World?, Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, Paul Skidmore, eds, London: Demos, 2004, pp 221-224; available online

* Albert-László Barabási, Linked: The New Science of Networks, Cambridge, MA: Perseus, 2002, pp 41-63. (READER ONLY)

* Mark Granovetter, "The Strength of Weak Ties, A Network Theory Revisited," Sociological Theory, Volume 1(1983), 201-233 available online

* danah boyd,Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites

* danah boyd, "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace" available online

* Barry Wellman, "Physical Place and Cyber Place: The Rise of Personalized Networking," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 25 (2001), Special Issue on "Networks, Class and Place," edited by Talja Blokland and Mike Savage. available online.

* Garrett Hardin, (1968) "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162(1968):1243-1248. available online.

* Peter Kollock, "Social Dilemmas: The Anatomy of Cooperation," available online.

* Elinor Ostrom, (1990) Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp 1-28. (READER ONLY)

* Summary of Governing the Commons

* Robert Axelrod, "Three Conditions for Human Cooperation." available online

* Mancur Olson (1965), The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups, (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1965), pp 1-52

* Pieter Boeder, Habermas Heritage: the future of the public sphere in the network society, First Monday, volume 10, number 9 ( September 2005)

* Cass R. Sunstein, "The Daily We: Is the Internet really a blessing for democracy?." Boston Review, October 20, 2003 (Reader)

* Phil Agre, The Practical Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship

* Rolling Stone comment thread

* Democratic Deliberation and Mobilization on the Internet

# Sherry Turkle, (1995) "Aspects of the Self," Chapter Seven from Life On The Screen, Simon & Schuster, pp 177-210(READER ONLY)

# Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life , Introduction and Chapter One, (pp 1-50) (READER ONLY)

# Julian Dibbell, (1998). A Rape in Cyberspace. In My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World (pp. 11-30). New York: Henry Holt and Company. available online.

# danah boyd, 2006. "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace." American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO. February 19. available online

# What Designers Can Learn From Facebook’s Beacon: the collision of fronts

# Donath, J. (1999). "Identity and Deception in the Virtual Community,"In M. A. Smith & P. Kollock (Eds.), Communities in Cyberspace (pp. 29-59). New York: Routledge. available online

# Regina Lynn, "Virtual rape is traumatic, but is it a crime?," Wired, May 4, 2007, available online.

# Rheingold Mind-to-Mind with Sherry Turkle available online

* John Coate, "Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community," available online.

* Peter Kollock, (1996), "Design Principles for Online Communities," Harvard Conference on the Internet and Society. available online.

* Amy Jo Kim, (2000) "Purpose: The Heart of Your Community," from Community Building on the Web, Peachpit Press, pp 1-18, available online.

* Howard Rheingold, (1999), "The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online," available online.

* The WELL Host Manual, chapter two, available online.

* Mike Godwin, "Nine Principles for Making Virtual Communities Work," available online.

* Robert Putnam, (1993) Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, Princeton University Press, 1993, pp 121-181. (READER ONLY)

* Paul Resnick, (2007) "Beyond Bowling Together: Sociotechnical Capital" HCI in the New Millenium, edited by John Carroll. Addison-Wesley attached.

* Ronald Burt, "Social Origins of Good Ideas," pp 2-10, 34-41 available online

* Howard Rheingold, (2002) Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, (Cambridge: Perseus), pp xi-xxii; 157-215. (READER ONLY)

* Ethan Zuckerman, "Mobile Phones and Social Activism,", available online.

* Jean K. Min, "First Hand Report on the Korean Elections," available online.

* Tomi T. Hanonen, Alan Moore, "Alpha users and communities in politics—March 2004 Spanish general elections," available online

* Yochai Benkler, (2006) The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, Yale University Press, Chapters One and Four: available online: Chapter One, Chapter Four

* Peter Kollock, "The Economics of Online Cooperation: Gifts and Public Goods in Cyberspace," in Smith and Kollock, Communities in Cyberspace, available online.

* Sherry Turkle (2007), "Can You Hear Me Now," Forbes, May 7, 2007 available online

* Katherine Hayles, (2007), "Hyperattention" MLA Profession attached: Hayles-hyper.doc

* Walter Kirn, (2007), "The Autumn of the Multitaskers," The Atlantic Monthly, November, 2007. (READER ONLY)

* danah boyd, (2007) "Incantations for Muggles," Presentation at O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, February.available online.