Part I: Introduction & basic concepts
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Week |
Day |
Topic / presentation |
Videos |
Readings due |
Class activities |
Assignments |
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Introduction |
Wed.
08.19
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Course overview
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Talk about experiences with mobile phones
Choose presentation days / topics
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1
Mobility |
Wed. 08.26 |
Mobility
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Presentation 1: Jordan Frith
Castells et. al.,"Communication and mobility in everyday life" (pp. 77-126) in MCS
Jensen, "Flow of meaning, cultures of movements" (pp. 139-158)
Brewer & Dourish, "Storied spaces" (pp. 1-14)
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Discussion posters |
Blog post 1
Wiki 1 |
2
Place / Space |
Wed. 09.02 |
Changing our perception of space and place / Networks
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Meyrowitz, "The rise of glocality" (pp. 21-30)
Wellman, "Little boxes, glocalization, and networked individualism" (pp. 10-25)
de Souza e Silva, "From cyber to hybrid" (pp. 261-278)
Gordon, "Redefining the local" (pp. 21-36) in DC
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Explanation final project/paper
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Blog post
2
Wiki 2 |
3
History |
Wed. 09.09 |
History of wireless technologies and cell phones
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Denise calls up (movie)
Abrahamson, "Hear Me Now"
Farley, "Mobile telephone history" (pp. 22-34)
Agar, "Different countries, different paths to mobility" (pp. 29-101)
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de Souza e Silva, "Hybrid reality and location-based gaming" (pp. 404-424)
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Blog post
3
Wiki 3
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Part II: Mobile interfaces
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4
Cell phone generations |
Wed. 09.16 |
Cellular generations 2G / 3G / 4G |
Lecture Rheingold (TED) |
Presentation 4: Maurice Mathis
Wilson, "3G to web 2.0?" (pp. 229-242)
Golding, "The future of mobile in the 3G era" (pp. 235-249)
Javaid, Rasheed, Meddour, Ahmed, & Prasad, "A novel dimension of cooperation in 4G" (pp. 29-40)
Saveri, Rheingold, & Vian, "Technologies of cooperation" (pp. 11-23)
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Blog posts
4
Wiki 4 |
5
Ubicomp / Pervasive computing
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Wed. 09.23 |
Ubicomp / Pervasive computing |
Iroshii Ishii
Pattie Maes (TED)
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Greenfield, "Section1: What's everyware" (pp. 9-34)
Greenfield, "Section2: How is everyware different from what we're used to?" (pp. 35-88)
Dourish & Bell, "The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure" (pp. 1-18)
Andrejevic, "Surveillance in the digital enclosure" (pp. 295-317)
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Discuss project proposals |
Blog posts 5
Wiki 5
Proposals for final project due |
6
Locative media
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Wed. 09.30 |
Connecting information to places
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- Track
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Presentation 5: Kati Fargo
de Souza e Silva & Frith, "Locative mobile social networks"
Perusco & Michael, "Control, trust, privacy and security" (pp. 4-16)
Hemment, "The mobile effect" (pp. 32-39)
Tuters & Varnelis, "Beyond locative media" (pp. 357-363)
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Discuss paper proposals |
Blog posts
6
Wiki 6
Proposals for final paper due
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Part III: Social uses
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7
Macro-coordination
AOIR: Rick's demo |
Wed. 10.07 |
Cell phones as social organizers |
Cyberman
Where 2.0.
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Castells et. al. "The mobile civil society" (pp. 185-214) in MCS
Keyani & Farnham, "Swarm: Text messaging designed to enhance social coordination" (pp. 287-304)
Rafael, "The cell phone and the crowd" (pp. 399-425)
Bimber et. al. "Reconceptualizing collective action in the contemporary media environment" (pp. 365-388)
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Blog posts 7
Wiki 7 |
8
Safety and security |
Wed. 10.14 |
Cell phones used for safety, security, and war
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Gordon, "The mobile phone and the public sphere" (pp. 307-319)
Cohen & Lemish, "When the bombs go off the mobiles ring" (pp. 117-128)
Goggin, "Mobile panic: Health, manners, and our youth" (pp. 107-125)
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Discuss storyboards |
Blog posts
8
Wiki 8
Storyboard for final project due
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9
Identity / self
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Wed. 10.21 |
Cell phones as fashion items / influence on youth behavior
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Castells et. al., "The mobile youth culture" (pp. 127-170) in MCS
Harper, "From teenage life to Victorian morals and back" (pp. 101-113)
Fortunati & Cianchi, "Fashion and technology in the presentation of self" (pp. 203-226)
Ling, "Goffmann on ritual interaction in everyday life" (pp. 57-72)
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Discuss paper outlines |
Blog posts
8
Wiki 8
Paper outlines due
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10
Mobile learning
4S
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Wed. 10.28 |
Cell phones as educational tools |
- Environmental Detectives
- Frequency 1550
- Savannah |
Presentation 7: Kim Burky
Katz, "Mobile phones in educational settings" (pp. 87-101)
Delacruz, Chung, & Baker, "Finding a place" (pp. 251-268) in DC
Benedeck, "New vistas of learning in the mobile age" (pp. 121-132)
Srivastava, "Dissemination and acquisition of knowledge in the mobile age" (pp. 159-168)
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Blog posts
10
Wiki 10
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Part IV: Site-specific case studies
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11
Asia
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Wed. 11.04 |
Case studies: Asia
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Presentation 8: Jessica Vincent
McLelland, "Sociocultural aspects of mobile communication technologies in Asia and the Pacific" (pp. 124-134)
Hjorth, "The politics of being mobile" (pp. 83-99) in DC
Bell, "The age of the thumb" (pp. 67-87)
Keferi & Kilian, "Mobile creation -- the Japanese way" (Vodafone Receiver)
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Discussion of project prototypes |
Blog posts
11
Wiki 11
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12
Africa
NCA
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Wed. 11.11 |
Case studies: Africa
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Show ppt and ITU statistics
Lecture mobile technologies (New Yorker) |
Castells, et. al., "Wireless communication and global development" (pp. 215-244) in MCS
James & Verteeg, "Mobile phones in Africa" (pp. 117-126)
Kyern & LeMaire, "Transforming recent gains in the digital divide into digital opportunities" (pp. 1-16)
Donner, "The social and economic implications of mobile telephony in Rwanda" (pp. 37-51)
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Blog posts
12
Wiki 12 |
13
South America |
Wed. 11.18 |
Case studies: South America |
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Presentation 8: Richard D'Angelo
Donner, "Research approaches to mobile use in the developing world" (pp. 140-159)
de Souza e Silva, "Cell phone appropriation and social mobile use in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil"
Ureta, "Mobilising poverty?" (pp. 83-92)
Horst & Miller, "Welfare" (pp. 137-158)
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Blog posts
13
Wiki 13
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14
Thanksgiving
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Wed. 11.25 |
no class |
15
Discussion |
Wed. 12.02 |
Final paper presentations |
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Final paper due
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16
Finals week |
Wed. 12.09 |
Final project presentations |
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Final project due |