My summary of Postman's Technopoly

Summary of Technopoly

Project 2: The Virtual Communities Project

Here's the assignment for your second project:
WRIT 1133 - Project 2

Inventing with Hypotheses, 1, 2, 3, and 4

Inventing with hypotheses

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Inventing with hypotheses 2

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Inventing with hypotheses 3

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Inventing with hypotheses 4

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Homework for Tuesday

For Tuesday, please read, summarize, and evaluate the two chapters from Neil Postman's Technopoly that I've put on Blackboard under Course Documents.  (I can't post these to the blog, as it would be a violation of copyright.)  Please send your summary/evaluation to me by the start of class.

Also, please sign up for Second Life and spend a little time familiarizing yourself with the basics (like how to move, how to chat with others, and how to teleport).  On Tuesday, we're going to do conduct some ethnographic research of the Second Life world.

Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, chapters 2 and 9

For class on Thursday, April 15, please read, summarize, and evaluate the main lines of argument in these two chapters from Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community:


Chapter Two: Daily Life in Cyberspace
Chapter Nine: Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists

Each summary should be two paragraphs in length.  In the first paragraph, summarize the main lines of argument; in the second, identify and explain what you believe to be the strengths and weaknesses of the arguments.

Please email your paragraphs to me by the start of class on Thursday.