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This is a Wikispace for Media, Technology & Sociology (Spring 2010) University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Technology Resources

Interesting Links

Course Requirements

Final Presentations and Discussion


 * Course Outline:**

Week 1 (1/19): Hellos, Introductions

Week 2 (1/26): The Rise of Media

Week 3 (2/2): Big Media and Cultural Production

Week 4 (2/9): Representation of Race and Class

Week 5 (2/16): Representation of Race and Class, (Cont'd) Week 6 (2/23): Creating Images, Creating Knowledge

Week 7 (3/2): Social Networks and Online Communities

Week 8 (3/9): Tactics of Resistance, Small (Participatory) Media

Week 9 (3/16): Spring Break

Week 10 (3/23): Technology and the Social Sciences: Photography and Visual Sociology

Week 11 (3/30): Technology and the Social Sciences: Ethnographic Film 

Week 12 (4/6): Cultural Work and Control

Week 13 (4/13): Technology, Education, and Expertise

Week 14 (4/20): Potentials

Week 15 (4/27): Media, Technology, and Democracy

Week 16 (5/4): Student Presentations