Dr. Nancy Baym
864-9876
Mailbox: Communication Department
Office, 102 Bailey
Human
communication has been mediated by technology since the invention of writing.
This course examines the role of communication technologies in our personal
relationships. This is a fast-growing field, and the course leans heavily
toward research published recently, however one goal of this course is to
enable you to situate contemporary changes against an historical backdrop
including the telegraph, the telephone, and other old new media. The courses
other goals are:
á to familiarize you with the broad range
of interpersonal communication theories, concepts, approaches, and
methodologies that have been used to understand interpersonal dimensions of
communication technologies.
á To bring you up to date on the current
state of knowledge about how our social lives are mediated by technology and
with what consequences.
á To develop a sense of how you could
contribute to this field through original research through completion of a
conference or publication worthy project.
There are two
books for the class:
James Katz
& Mark Aakhus (Eds.) (2002). Perpetual contact: Mobile communication,
private talk, public performance.
Cambridge: Cambridge University.
Naomi Baron (2008). Always
On, Language in an Online and Mobile World.
New York, Oxford University.
There are also
many readings, most of which are available online, as listed in the syllabus.
There are quite
a few readings. Many of them are short, but there are also some weeks where
there are just a lot of pages assigned. If you cannot read it all closely, do
not despair. You donÕt need to read every paragraph of each article closely.
Instead, focus closely on two or three, and read the rest for the main points
– what was their approach? what were their research questions or
hypotheses? how did they go about answering them? what are the main things they
found?
Weekly
Responses (15%) : Each
weekÕs reading feature a variety of approaches to an issue or set of related
issues. Use these weekly writings to (1) identify theoretical approaches or key
concepts in the readings that you find particularly compelling or problematic
(2) the key finding(s) that you find particularly interesting or
counterintuitive (3) at least one research question that emerges from the
readings around which you could build a feasible research project. These response papers should be posted
to Blackboard no later than Wednesday at midnight and ideally earlier than
that.
Most of the
grade will be for a semester-long research project. Grading will be broken down into a
Paper Proposal (25%), Final Paper (50%), and a Presentation of the paper to the
class (10%). More information on this will be forthcoming.
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