Communication and Geography,
GEO/COM 490X
Course Scheule and Readings
The following is a tentative course schedule. After your first viewing,
you can mostly ignore this paper schedule and make use of the online schedule.
We may choose not to read some of the items listed below or may add different
readings. In addition because the exact requirements of our final project
are not yet known, we may need to shift things around or drop elements
of the class to accommodate the project. Check the course web site and
read your e-mail frequently for updates. Dodge and Kitchin = Mapping Cyberspace,
CCR=Cybercities Reader (only first page of each selection
is given). Note that the CCR readings are typically very short.
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Introduction: Where is Cyberspace? | |||
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T Aug 24 |
Intro to Class |
Meets 1:35-2:40 |
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R Aug 26 |
How is cyberspace Geographical/Intro to Internet Virtual Field Trip |
Dodge & Kitchin Preface and Chapter 1, CCR Campanella p. 57, Graham p. 138 |
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Historical Geographies of Communication | |||
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T Aug 31 |
Start reading Stephenson Mother Earth Mother board for discussion on Thursday. |
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R Sept 2 |
Geography of the Telegraph/Global Networks |
Neal Stephenson Mother Earth Mother Board |
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T Sept 7 |
Geography of the Telephone/Cell phone Olympics |
CCR Tarr pp 44, Pool p. 47, Carey p. 133, Kopomaa p. 267, Townsend Life in the Real Time City, Bring your Cell Phone to Class , Homepage due |
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R Sept 9 |
Geography of News and Television |
Brooker-Gross. The changing concept of place…, CCR Streeter p. 53, Morley p. 252 |
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Place, Community, and Cyberspace |
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T Sept. 14 |
Geographies of Cyberspace |
Dodge and Kitchin Chapter 3. William Mitchell City of Bits Read: Chapter 1 Pulling Glass and Chapter 2 Electronic Agoras. |
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R Sept. 16 |
Virtual Community |
Rheingold Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 |
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T Sept 21 |
Virtual Community Continued |
CCR Hampton pp. 256, Webber p. 50 Boden and Molotch p. 101 Critical Analysis of Rheingold Due |
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R Sept 23 |
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T Sept 28 |
Community Networking |
Longan Building a Global Sense of Place and Visions of Community ( CCR Lovink p. 371 optional) |
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R Sept. 30 |
Final Project Research Project |
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7 |
T Oct 5 |
Work and Brainstorming Day |
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R Oct. 7 |
The Digital Divide |
CCR Benton Found. P.306, Kruger p. 320, Graham p. 324 |
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T Oct 12 |
Final Project Work Day |
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Mapping Cyberspace |
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R Oct 14 |
Midterm Exam |
Details on Tuesday |
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9 |
T Oct 19 |
Mapping Cyberspace |
Martin and Dodge Chapters 4, 5, 6 |
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R Oct 21 |
Fall Break No Class |
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10 |
T Oct 26 |
Mapping Cyberspace: Virtual Field Trip |
Martin and Dodge Chapters 7,8 |
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R Oct 28 |
Mapping Univ. Home pg. Project |
Martin and Dodge Chapter 9 |
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T Nov. 2 |
The Geography of Cyberpolitics Virtual Field Trip |
Stewart, Wolf, Shapiro articles from Wired. Witt from Wired News and browse www.factcheck.org |
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Cybercities |
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R Nov. 4 |
Project Work Day |
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T Nov 9 |
Public Cyberspace and/or final project work day. |
CCR Dewey p. 291, Broeckmann p. 378, Don Mitchell The end of public space? |
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R Nov 11 |
Surveillance and Security and/or final project work day |
CCR Townsend p. 143, Lyon p. 299, Huber & Mills p. 418 |
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T Nov 16 |
Telecommuting & the dematerialization of cities. |
CCR Virilio p. 79, CCR Various authors p. 151-188, Gillespie and Richardson p. 212 |
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R Nov 18 |
Real Virtuality/Virtual Reality and Video Games |
CCR Aoyama p. 231 Davis pp. 235, Dewailly p. 407, CCR Beamish p. 272, Killers Have More Fun By Amy Jo Kim, |
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Nov 21-28 Thanksgiving Break |
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Virtual Reality, Real Virtuality, and Cyberpunk Geographies |
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T Nov 30 |
Web Raising Prep and Discussion of Cyberpunk Geographies/Geography of Cinema |
Dodge and Kitchin Chapter 10, CCR Warren p. 395 | |
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R Dec 2 |
Web Raising!!!! |
Assignment prepare for web raising and complete before web raising questions. |
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15 |
T Dec 7 |
Cyberpunk Geography |
Gibson All, Critical Review on Gibson Due |
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R Dec 9 |
Conclusion |
Personal Web Site Due! | ||
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Final Exam Thursday Dec. 16 1:00-3:00 |
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See web page schedule for links to online readings.
Brooker-Gross, Susan. 1985. The changing concept of place in the news. In Geography, the Media, and Popular Culture, Burgess, Jacquelin and Gold, John R. eds, pp. 63-85. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Kavanaugh The Impact of Community Networking on Comunity: a Social Network Analysis Approach .
Kavanaugh, Cohil, Patterson Use and Impact of Community Networking in Blacksburg .
Kim, Jo Killers Have More Fun. Wired 6.05. Online see web site for link.
Martin, Michele. 1991. Communication and social forms: the development of the telephone, 1876-1920.
Mitchell, Don. 1995. The end of public space? People's Park, definitions of the public, and democracy. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85:108-194.
Mitchell, William J. 1995. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley.
Schmitz, Joseph, Everett M. Rogers, Ken Phillips, and Donald Paschal. 1995. The Public Electronic Network (PEN) and the homeless in Santa Monica. Journal of Applied Communication Research 23:26-43.
Schuler, Douglas. 1996. New Community Networks: Wired For Change. New York: Addison Wesley.
Shapiro, Samantha. 2004. The Dean machine marches on. Wired 12.09.
Stephenson, Neal. 1996. Mother Earth Mother Board. Wired 4.12.
Stephenson, Neal. In the Kingdom of Mao Bell Wired 2.02.
Stewart, Jill. 2004. The new American idol. Wired 12.09.
Townsend A M. 2000. "Life in the real-time city: mobile telephones and urban metabolism". Journal of Urban Technology. (7)2:85-104.(Requires PDF Viewer) http://urban.blogs.com/research/JUT-LifeRealTime.pdf
Wolf, Gary. 2004. Weapons of mass mobilization. Wired 12.09
International geography Reading Assignment. Read if you are interested.
Stepenson In the Kingdom of Mao Bell CCR Skinner p. 218, Madon p. 309, Fernandez-Maldonado p. 314, Bunnell p 348, Coe and Yeung p. 354.
I've only chosen one novel to focus upon this semester, but I also know that some of you are avid readers apart from your coursework. The following novels are related to both cyberspace and geography and are well worth reading. If a subset of the class would like to read these during the semester and talk about them we can do that. They're also fun to read on your own.
Neal Stephenson. The
Diamond Age: A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, Snow Crash, Cryptnomicon
William Gibson.
Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, All Tomorrow's
Parties
Tad Williams Otherland:
City of Golden Shadow (and 3 sequels)
Kim Stanley Robinson The
Gold Coast
Peter Watts Starfish, Maelstrom,
Bhemouth
See also Longan, Michael and Tim Oaks. 2001. Geography's conquest of history in "The Diamond Age." As well as other awesome essays in Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction.
Dodge and Kitchin Chapter 2, CCR Castells p. 82, Cauter p. 94, Thrift p. 98
Copyright 2004 Michael W. Longan
