Week 1: Introduction to Digital Media





Week 2: The New Media Literacies







Week 3: The New Digital Landscape 



Henry Jenkins, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies," Journal of Media Literacy,


Week 4:  Appropriation 

Lawerence Lessig. "Mere Copyists." Free Culture.



Week 5: Rethinking the Informed Citizen


Michael Schudson, "Click Here for Democracy: A History and Critique of an
Information-Based Model of Citizenship," in Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn
(eds.) Democracy and New Media (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003).





Week 6: Fan Labor, Moral Economy, and the Gift Economy

Joshua Green and Henry Jenkins, "The Moral Economy of Web 2.0: Audience Research and Convergence Culture," in Jennifer Holt and Alisa Perren (eds.) Media Industries: History, Theory and Method (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) 


Tiziana Terranova, "Free Labor," Producing Culture for the Digital Economy (Pluto, 2004) 

Lewis Hyde, "The Bond" and "The Gift Community," The Gift: Creativity and The Artist in the Modern World (New York: Vintage, 2008)





Week 7: A Digital Revolution?


Cass Sunstein, "The Daily We: Is The Internet Really a Blessing for Democracy," and
Responses, The Boston Review, Summer 2001






Week 8: Collective Action

Yochai Benkler, "The Emergence of a Networked Public Sphere," The Wealth of
Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)




Week 9:  Transmedia Navigation and Multitasking



Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New York: New York University Press, 2006), Chapter 3 "Searching for the Oragami Unicorn," pp. 93-130.


Mimi Ito, "Technologies of the Childhood Imagination: Yugioh, Media Mixes, and Everyday Cultural Production" pp.31-34.


Andrew Clark, Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, Technologies and the Future of Human Intelligence (Oxford: Oxford University Press), Chapter Two "Technologies to Bond With," pp. 35-58.




Week 10: Fans or Pirates?

Lawrence Lessig, "Two Economies: Commercial and Sharing," Remix: Making Art and
Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Ecology (New York: Penquin, 2008)


"Remixing the Digital Future," Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation (Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons)





Week 11: Transmedia Storytelling



Henry Jenkins, "We Had So Many Stories to Tell': The Heroes Comics as Transmedia Storytelling," Confessions of an Aca-Fan, http://henryjenkins.org/2007/12/we_had_so_many_stories_to_tell.html


Week 12: You tube



Jean Burgess and Joshua Green, YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture (New York: Polity, 2009)

Week 13: Social Networks and Participatory Culture 

Ellen Gruber Garvey, "Scissoring and Scrapbooks: 19th Century Reading, Remaking and Recirculating" in Lisa Gitelman (ed.) New Media, 1740-1915 (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004)




Week 14: Politics, Fantasy and Parody :: Photoshop


Henry Jenkins, "Photoshop for Democracy" in Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (New
York: New York University Press, 2006)




Week 15: Final Presentations