Hello Folks,
Just in case there is any ambiguity about the course textbook, I wanted to clarify things a bit. The only textbook we will use for this semester is a book called Social Selves by Ian Burkitt. This book cannot be found at the SJSU bookstore. It was a last minute addition to the class, and by last minute, I decided on June 3rd to use this book after debating for months, so using online booksellers would be best (and cheaper I might add). You can also find it HERE, HERE and HERE.
I used a book called The New Media Reader during the Fall 2010 semester. Students really liked most of the assigned readings, but we used less than half of the book. The book covered 'new media' starting in the 1940's, and covered new media ideas until the late 1990's. While students liked most of the readings, there were a few that were incredibly difficult. I took the feedback from students last semester, complied a list of their favorite readings, then added a number of other applicable readings, and voila, we have a list of readings for the current semester.
I decided to simply upload all of the readings, rather than putting a 'reader' together for a few reasons. The most compelling reasons were cost and access. While readers are much less expensive than a textbook, I felt that students would be able to make their own decision about printing out readings, or not. Thus, all course readings (except for the Burkitt text) are available on D2L, and can be printed at your leisure.
I hope this decision serves you, as the student, well!
Let me know if you have any questions about this, or about anything else in the class.
Thanks so much for making this a bit more clear : ) I was going to e-mail you today about this topic but you’ve answered my question so again thank you!!!!!
ReplyDeletePs. Personally I really love that all the class readings are on-line, it makes it so much easier and convenient.
-MoM2Two-
Are we to read the entire text book or do we have specific chapters and pages to read? I have been trying to look at all the class materials and I did not see specific pages or chapters for the text book.....
ReplyDeleteYou will read material out of each chapter - but will only read certain pages from each chapter. Fair usage is merely 10% of a book and there is quite a bit more material that I wanted to cover than just 10%, so I couldn't just scan and upload since it surpassed the 10% limit.
ReplyDeleteThe Burkitt text goes into detail about creating a persona. This will be the focus of the first project in the class - the creation of the self as it pertains to online mediums.