September 24, 2009

Network Studies (part four)

Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks
Mark Buchanan

Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society
Stephan Fuchs
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September 5, 2009

Network Studies (part three)

Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society
Steven Shaviro

Toward a Structural Theory of Action: Network Modes of Social Strcuture, Perception, and Action
Ronald S. Burt

Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition
Ronald S. Burt

Theories of Communication Networks
Peter R. Monge
Noshir S. Contractor

Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness
Duncan J. Watts
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August 12, 2009

Network Studies (part two)

“Communities, Audiences, and Scale”
http://shirky.com/writings/community_scale.html
Clay Shirky

“The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview”
http://www.shirky.com/writings/semantic_syllogism.html
Clay Shirky

“The Toughest Virus of All”
http://www.shirky.com/writings/toughest_virus.html
Clay Shirky

“Institutions vs. Collaboration.”
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html
Clay Shirky

“How Social Media Can Make History”
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html
Clay Shirky

“Here Comes Everybody”
http://fora.tv/2008/07/06/Clay_Shirky_Here_Comes_Everybody_1_of_4
Clay Shirky

“Social Networks and the Obama Campaign”
http://fora.tv/2008/07/06/Clay_Shirky_Here_Comes_Everybody_2_of_4
Clay Shirky

“Social Networks and Politics”
http://fora.tv/2008/07/06/Clay_Shirky_Here_Comes_Everybody_3_of_4
Clay Shirky

“Social Networks like Facebook and Myspace”
http://fora.tv/2008/07/06/Clay_Shirky_Here_Comes_Everybody_4_of_4
Clay Shirky

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transfoms Markets and Freedoms
Yochai Benkler

Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
Bruno Latour
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July 12, 2009

Protest Rhetorics

“The Manufacture of Dissent: What the Left Can Learn from Las Vegas”
Andrew Boyd and Stephen Duncomb

“The Web Rewires the Movement”
Andrew Boyd

“Truth is a Virus”
Andrew Boyd

“Spank the Bank”
Andrew Boyd

“Extreme Costume Ball: A New Protest Movement Hits the Streets in Style”
Andrew Boyd

“The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist”
Edward PJ Corbett

Antonio Gramsci: Prison Notebooks, Volume I
Ed. Joseph A Buttigieg
Trans. Joseph A. Buttigieg and Antonio Callari

CCC
1965-1969

Students’ Right to Their Own Language

The Hope and the Legacy: The Past, Present, and Future of “Students’ Right to Their Own Language”
Patrick Bruch and Richard Marback

English in America: A Radical View of the Profession
Richard Ohmann
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June 30, 2009

Network Studies (part one)

Social Movements and Networks: Relational Approaches to Collective Action
Eds. Mario Diani and Doug McAdam
Introduction
“Why do Networks Matter? Rationalist and Structuralist Interpretations”
Roger V. Gould.
“Cross-talk in Movements: Re conceiving the Culture-Network Link”
Ann Mische
“Beyond Structural Analysis: Toward a More Dynamic Understanding of Social Movements”
Doug McAdam
“Networks and Social Movements: A Research Programme”
Mario Diani

“A Theory of Structure, Duality, Agency, and Transformation”
William H. Sewell, Jr.

A Thousand Plateaus
“1. Introduction: Rhizome”
Gilles Deleuze
Felix Guatari

Network: Theorizing Knowledge Work in Telecommunications
Clay Spinuzzi

The Exploit: A Theory of Networks
Alexander R. Galloway and Eugene Thacker

Linked
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Information Ecologies: Using Technology with Heart
Bonnie A. Nardi and Vicki L. O’Day

“A Simple Model of Global Cascades on Random Networks”
Duncan J. Watts

“A Theory of Relational Signals in Online Groups”
Uwe Matzat

“Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi Use in Public and Semi-Public Spaces”
Keith Hampton and Neeti Gupta

“CommunityNetSimulator”
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman, and Lada Adamic

“Cooperation in Evolving Networks”
Nobuyuki Hanaki, Alexander Peterhansl, Peter S. Dodds, Duncan J. Watts

“Information Exchange and the Robustness of Organizational Networks”
Peter S. Dodds, Duncan J. Watts, and Charles F. Sabel

“Localizing the Internet”
John Postill

“Mail Art: Networking Without Technology”
Seeta Pena Gangadharan

“Mapping the Blogosphere”
Stephen D. Reese, Lou Rutigliano, Kideuk Hyun, and Jaekwan Jeong

“Myth and the Zapatista Movement: Exploring a Network Identity”
Adrienne Russell

“New Media, Networking, and Phatic Culture”
Vincent Miller

“Online Networks of Student Protest: The Case of the Living Wage Program”
J. Patrick Biddix and Han Woo Park

“Structural Holes are Good Ideas”
Ronald S. Burt

“The Contingent Value of Social Capital”
Ronald S. Burt

“The New Science of Networks”
Duncan J. Watts

“The Social Capital of Opinion Leaders”
Ronald S. Burt

“The Very Small World Well-Connected”
Xiolan Shi, Matthew Bonner, Lada Acamic, and Anna C. Gilbert

“The Virtual Geography of Social Networks”
Zizi Papacharissi
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June 18, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorical Tradition 
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg, eds.
“Maria W. Stewart”
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April 13, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorical Tradition
Bizzell and Herzberg, eds.
“Richard Whately”
From Elements of Rhetoric
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April 5, 2009

CCR 731

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Seven: “Eighteenth Century Rhetorics”

The Rhetorical Tradition
Bizzell and Herzberg, eds.
“Thoman Sheridan”
A Course of Lectures on Elocution
“George Campbell”
From The Philosophy of Rhetoric
“Hugh Blair”
From Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres
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March 30, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorcial Tradition
Bizzell and Herzberg, eds.
“Francis Bacon”
From The Advancement of Learning
From Novum Organum
“John Locke”
 From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“Giambattista Vico”
From On the Study Methods of Our Time

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Six: “Rhetoric in the Seventeenth Century”
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March 19, 2009

CCR 731

The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg
“Renaissance Rhetoric–Introduction”
“Desiderius Erasmus”
From Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style
“Peter Ramus”
From Arguments in Rhetoric against Quintillian
“Thomas Wilson”
From The Arte of Rhetorique

Rhetoric Retold
Cheryl Glenn
Chapter Four: “Inscribed in the Margins”

The Rhetorical Tradition
Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg
“Margaret Fell”
Women’s Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed by Scriptures
“Madeleine de Scudery”
Of Conversation
Of Speaking too much, or too little. And how we ought to Speak.

Rhetoric in the European Tradition
Thomas Conley
Chapter Five: “Rhetoric and Renaissance Humanism”
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