ࡱ> WYV IbjbjVV 4P<<$-----AAAAT4A"d O!Q!Q!Q!Q!Q!Q!$d%(Bu!E-u!--!R--O!O!V3@cAJs ;!!0"xH(H(H(-Du!u!"H( : New Media and Civic Engagement COM 4603 3 Credit Hours Prerequisites COM 2053 Instructor: Ryan McGeough, Ph.D. Office Hours: M/T/W 9:30-12:30 Office: 209 Culture and Society Building Phone: (319) 504-6971 Email: rmcgeoug@fau.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION A variety of new media technologies have dramatically altered how people (and particularly American college students) communicate on a daily basis. Before coming to class, most students likely sent a text message, looked at Facebook, checked email or played an online game. Though we often take for granted the ability to communicate with a large number of people over vast distances, the potential for huge numbers of people to do so is actually a very recent development. This course explores what such changes mean to our experiences as citizens in a democracy. Some new media technologies, such as Twitter, are so new that it is difficult to measure their effects yet; by the time we can, Twitter may well be obsolete. Yet the rapid change in these different technologies is also what makes the study of new media so exciting. Because new media are constantly changing who we can communicate with and how, this course explores how these technologies change what communities we can be members of and how we perform our roles in those communities. It also explores their potential to affect citizenship and alter what it means to be a member of a society and electorate. After completing this course, students will be able to meet the following objectives: 1) Articulate the effects new media have on American civic discourse. 2) Identify how new media affect the production and consumption of political discourse. 3) Write and edit an academic essay analyzing a particular new media practice. Required Texts: Nightengale, V., & Dwyer, T. (2007). New Media Worlds. New York: Oxford University Press. Sunstein, C. (2009). Republic.com 2.0. Princeton: NJ. Princeton University Press (Selected readings, or links to online readings, will be posted on Blackboard as indicated in course schedule) Participation and Attendance: The nature of this course requires students to be in class and actively participate. Grades will be assigned at various points throughout the semester to in-class activities and participation, which cannot be made up if a student is absent. Also, tests, quizzes and presentations cannot be made up if a student is absent. When a student is late to or misses class, his/her points for that day will be forfeited. Quizzes are typically administered at the beginning of class, and students who come late to class will not be able to make them up. Regardless of circumstances, even if it is possible to make up a late/missed assignment, there will be a 50% deduction. Note that if a student is absent, it is his/her responsibility to obtain a copy of materials and handouts from another classmate. Cancelled Class: If class is canceled for any reason, deadlines for tests, papers, projects may be in effect for the next scheduled class date. Keep up with the assignments on your syllabus calendar. When class resumes, I will determine in which order activities will be covered. Be prepared up to and including that day on the syllabus calendar. Written work: All written work must be typed or word-processed. The written work must be neat, legible, and stapled. If the work does not conform to these requirements, I will not accept the written work. In other words, if you turn in an outline or a bibliography that is not typed, I will not accept it and you will lose those points. Late written work will not be accepted- no exceptions. Plagiarism: I have no tolerance for plagiarism. Any student found to have turned in material not their own (either downloaded from the internet or written by another student) will immediately be reported to the Dean of Students. The Internet has made plagiarism very easy and very tempting. Hundreds of sites offer papers, research, writing, and editing. The ease with which such material is available over the Internet does not lessen the seriousness of claiming material from the Internet as your own. Your paper would be considered as plagiarized in part or entirely if you do any of the following: Submit a paper that was written by someone other than you. -Submit a paper you have already submitted for a different class. Submit a paper in which you use the ideas, metaphors or reasoning style of another, but do not cite that source and/or place that source in your list of references. Simply rewording a sentence does not make work your own. Submit a paper in which you  cut and paste or use the exact words of a source and you do not put the words within quotation marks, use footnotes or in-text citations, and place the source in your list of references. Appealing Grades: If you ever feel the grade you received on an assignment is unfair or fails to recognize how you did, in fact, meet the criteria for an assignment, you are free to appeal your grade to me. To do so, simply type a one-to-two page appeal making an argument for why your current grade is unjust and what you believe your grade should be. Appeals must be given to me within two weeks of the date an assignment is returned to the class. If you believe I simply made a mathematical or clerical error (which is rare but not impossible), just talk to me after class or stop by my office hours. Grade Grabbing: Grade grabbing is the practice of asking for a grade near the end of the semester. You or someone you know may have successfully talked a professor into bumping a grade up in a past course. It would be unwise to attempt grade grabbing in any of my courses. Not only will it absolutely not work, but asking to be given a grade you did not earn is unfair to all of your peers who operate under the same grading expectations as you. As such it will almost certainly damage my opinion of you, thus impairing my ability to do the favors I routinely do for former students, such as writing letters of recommendation or adding into future courses. Be sure to avoid alternate grade grabbing strategies such as the impending doom scenario: if I dont get an A in your class, my GPA will fall below ____, I will lose my scholarship, be forced to drop out of school, and inevitably turn to a life of crime and drugs. Obviously I do not want you to turn to a life of crime, thus I work hard to ensure my grading criteria are clear. As such, if you need an A, it is up to you to do the work to earn it. Students Special Needs: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), students who require special accommodation due to a disability to properly execute course work must register with the Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) -- in Boca Raton, SU 133 (561-297-3880); in Davie, MOD 1 (954-236-1222); in Jupiter, SR 117 (561-799-8585); or at the Treasure Coast, CO 128 (772-873-3305) and follow all OSD procedures. Code of Academic Integrity: Students at ý are expected to maintain the highest ethical standards. Academic dishonesty is considered a serious breach of these ethical standards, because it interferes with the University mission to provide a high quality education in which no student enjoys an unfair advantage over any other. Academic dishonesty is also destructive of the University community, which is grounded in a system of mutual trust and places high value on personal integrity and individual responsibility. Harsh penalties are associated with academic dishonesty. For more information, see the Code of Academic Integrity in the University Regulations at HYPERLINK "http://www.fau.edu/regulations/chapter4/4.001_Code_of_Academic_Integrity.pdf"http://www.fau.edu/regulations/chapter4/4.001_Code_of_Academic_Integrity.pdf. EVALUATION: Online Deliberation Analysis 100 pts. Quizzes (20 pts. each) 200 pts. Class Participation Activities (10 pts. each, unless otherwise noted) 100 pts. Paper proposal 40 pts. Peer Edits (20 pts. each) 40 pts. Final paper 200 pts. Midterm Exam 100 pts. Final Exam 220 pts. Total Points 1000 pts. Grading Scale A = (930-1000 pts), B+ = (870-899 pts), C+ = (770-799 pts), D+ = (670-699 pts), F = (Below 600) A- = (900-929 pts), B = (830-869 pts), C = (730-769 pts), D = (630-669 pts), B- = (800-829 pts), C- = (700-729 pts), D- = (600-629 pts), TENTATIVE DAILY SCHEDULEPay Special Attention to Bolded Items Week 1 Course Introduction Digital Dossiers Week 2 Read Chapter 1, Blackboard (Carey) Technological Determinisms Week 3 Read Blackboard (Benkler) The Networked Public Sphere Week 4 Read Blackboard (Margolis and Resnick) Politics as Usual? 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