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 in the last 5 years, 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- Familiarizing
yourself with a field also means developing a sense of how you could contribute
to it through original research of your own. The work in this course should
lead to research projects leading to conference presentations and publication.
Readings are on reserve at the Edwards Campus library and
online. To get to the readings, go to the KU Online
Catalog at http://catalog.lib.ku.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First . Once you locate your course reserve page in the catalog,
you will be able to view what is available for you at the library on traditional
reserve and will be able to locate the items on electronic reserve by clicking
on the electronic reserve tab located at the top of the reserve list.
It's available on reserve, but I strongly recommend that you go ahead and purchase J. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.) Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University. ItÕs widely available online through amazon or similar sites.
If you are on the Lawrence campus, most of the readings are also available on reserve in 102 Bailey. Readings in italics on the reading list below are not available in these paper reserves.
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, read for the main points Ð what was
their approach? what were their 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 stake out your own perspective.
Your response should address (1) a theoretical approach or key concepts in the
readings that you found 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.
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.
Walther, Gay & Hancock (2005). How do communication and
technology researchers study the internet? Journal of Communication 55(3)
Baym, N. (2006). Social life online. In S. Livingstone and L. Lievrouw (eds). The Handbook of New Media, Student Edition. Sage Ltd: London.
FornŒs, J., Klein. K., Ladendorf, J., Sunden, J. &
Sveningsson, M, (2002) Into
Digital Borderlands. In J. Fornþs, K. Klein, M.
Ladendorf, J. SundŽn & M. Sveningsson (editors) Digital Borderlands:
Cultural Studies of Identity and Interactivity on the Internet. New York: Peter
Lang Publishing
Haythornthwaite, C. & Wellman, B. (2002). The internet in everyday life: An introduction. In Wellman, B. & Haythornthwaite, C. (Eds.) The Internet in Everyday Life. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing
Ishii,Kenichi Implications of Mobility: The Uses of Personal Communication Media in Everyday Life. Journal-of-Communication. Vol 56(2) Jun 2006, 346-365
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Marvin, C. (1988). ÒCommunity and Class OrderÓ in When Old
Technologies Were New 63-108 New
York: Oxford.
Fischer, C. S. (1992). Personal Calls, Personal Meanings. Chapter 8 in America calling: A social history of the telephone to 1940, pp. 222-254. Berkeley: University of California
Litoff, J. B., & Smith, D. C. (1990). "Will he get my
letter?": Popular portrayals of mail and morale during World War II. Journal of Popular Culture, 23(4),
21-43.
Katz, J. & Aakhus, M. (2002). Framing the issues, pp. 1-13 In
J. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.) Perpetual contact: Mobile communication,
private talk, public performance.
Cambridge: Cambridge University.
Sturken, M. & Thomas, D. (2004). Introduction: Technological Visions and the Rhetoric of the New
in M. Sturken & D. Thomas (Eds.). Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears that Shape New Technologies. Available
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Carey, J..
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443-455.
Fortunati, L. (2005). Is body to body communication still the
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Mulkay, M. (1985). Agreement and disagreement in conversations and letters. Text, 5, 201-227.
Ling, R. Texting and the growth of asynchronous discourse. In The
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Schegloff, E. (2002) Beginnings in the Telephone. In J. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.) Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University.
Herring, S. (2001). Computer-Mediated Discourse. In Tannen,
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Oxford: Blackwell. PDF file available online at: http://www.let.rug.nl/~redeker/herring.pdf
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Waskul, D. D., Douglass,
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Paper Proposal Due
Patti M. Valkenburg, Alexander P. Schouten, and Jochen Peter, AdolescentsÕ identity experiments on the internet. New Media Society 7: 383-402.
SundŽn, J. (2002) 'Cyberbodies:
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Mafus & Tracey (2002) Mobile phone consumption and the construction of personhood. In J. Katz & M. Aakhus (Eds.) Perpetual contact: Mobile communication, private talk, public performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University.
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