Schedule

How To Read This Schedule: All readings will be completed before class on the date on which they are assigned. Anything in bold is work to be completed before class and brought with you on the day listed. Paper due dates, also in bold, indicate that the completed manuscript of your paper must be in the correct dropbox on Blackboard before class starts on the day indicated.

• Week 1
  • T, 1/13
    • Course Overview
  • Th, 1/15
    • “Introduction” in TsIs, 1-15
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 14 (bring your paragraph to class, on paper or on screen)
    • “The Spark File”
• Week 2
  • T, 1/20
    • “Chapter 1” in TsIs, 19-29
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 28
    • Introductions
    • “Facebook is the Suburbia of the Internet”
  • Th, 1/22
    • “Chapter 2” in TsIs, 30-41
    • Summarizing
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 40 (bring the two positions to class, on paper or on screen)
    • “Chapter 3” in TsIs, 42-51
    • Quoting
    • “Do You Speak GIF?”
• Week 3
  • T, 1/27
    • No Class
  • Th, 1/29
    • “Chapter 4” in TsIs, 55-67.
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 67 (do for one of the articles we’ve read so far; bring on paper or on screen)
    • “On Smarm”
• Week 4
  • T, 2/3
    • “Chapter 5” in TsIs
    • “Chapter 6” in TsIs
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 75
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 90 (bring paragraph with you, on paper or on screen)
    • Prolepsis
    • “Its Time to Rethink the Link”
  • Th, 2/5
    • “Chapter 7” in TsIs
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 100 (answer the questions for two of the articles we’ve read. bring answers to class)
    • Conclusions
    • “The Leftovers”
• Week 5
  • T, 2/10
    • “Chapter 8” in TsIs
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 118 (print a copy of the exercise here)
    • Transitions
    • “All You Need Is Love and Money”
  • Th, 2/12
    • “Chapter 9” in TsIs
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 128 (bring copies of the three paragraphs to class)
    • Voice
    • “13 Ways of Looking at Greg Maddux”
• Week 6
  • T, 2/17
    • “Chapter 10” in TsIs
    • Complete Exercise 1 in TsIs, 137 (for one of the articles we’ve read to class; bring your answers to class)
    • Complete Exercise 2 in TsIs, 138 (complete the exercise and bring to class)
    • Aporia
  • Th, 2/19
    • Peer Review
    • “Chapter 11” in TsIs
    • Revision
• Week 7
  • T, 2/24
    • Paper One Due
    • “My First Conk”
    • “The Truth About Turkey Brining”
  • Th, 2/26
    • No Class
• Week 8
  • T, 3/3
    • “Carb-Induced Self-Reflection”
    • “A’salted”
    • “My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers”
  • Th, 3/5
    • “How I Choose Headphones”
    • “Whatever You Do, Don’t Buy Your Aircraft Carrier From Russia”
• Week 9
  • Spring Break, No Classes
• Week 10
  • T, 3/17
    • “The Doctor Is In”
    • “Bobby Shmurda and the Weirdest White Girl Anthem Ever”
  • Th, 3/19
    • No Class
• Week 11
  • T, 3/24
    • “Big Moose Is Watching You”
    • “Wow, Scare, Amaze”
  • Th, 3/26
    • “How to tell when a robot has written you a letter”
    • “The Online Legacy of a Suicide Cult and the Webmasters Who Stayed Behind”
• Week 12
  • T, 3/31
    • Peer Review
  • Th, 4/2
    • Paper Two Due
    • “Silicon Valley Wants ‘More Human’ Humans”
    • “Where Would Instagram Be Without Filters?”
• Week 13
  • T, 4/7
    • “Life in the Fastest Lane”
    • “Flashforward”
  • Th, 4/9
    • “The Only Game In Town”
    • “A Timeline of Concussion Science and NFL Denial”
• Week 14
  • T, 4/14
    • “Tap In, Check Out”
    • “This Is Your Brain on Mobile”
  • Th, 4/16
    • “A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge”
    • “The Muses of Insert, Delete and Execute”
    • “George R.R. Martin Writes on a DOS-Based Word Processor From the 1980s”
• Week 15
  • T, 4/21
    • “Work It Harder Make It Better Do It Faster Makes Us Stronger”
    • “When ‘Life Hacking’ Is Really White Privilege”
  • Th, 4/23
    • “Texters and Gamers”
• Week 16
  • T, 4/28
    • Peer Review
  • Th, 4/30
    • Final Project Consultation
    • Paper Three Due, 5/4
    • Reflection Due, 5/4