Readings

• BOOK [CMO COURSEPACK]: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, by McGonigal. (“Introduction”)
• WEB ARTICLE: “The Decline and Fall of an Ultra Rich Online Gaming Empire”, by Dibbell in Wired. http://bit.ly/T04uCf
• WEB ARTICLE: “The Dream Factory - From design to delivery, custom manufacturing is coming soon to a desktop near you”, by Thompson in Wired. http://bit.ly/P74vzZ
• WEB ARTICLE: “Generation Fabrication”, by Cascio in World Changing. http://bit.ly/QEmOOe
• WEB ARTICLE: “The Kind of Future Fabbing Suggests”, by Steffen in World Changing. http://bit.ly/OzkzOn

Deliverables

• No deliverables – work on your final deliverable!

Readings

• No readings – work on your final deliverable!

Deliverables

• No deliverables – work on your final deliverable!

Readings

• No readings – work on your final deliverable!

Deliverables

• No deliverables – work on your final deliverable!

Readings

• HBS CASE [CMO COURSEPACK]: “Data.gov” by Lakhani, Austin and Yi.
• BOOK [CMO COURSEPACK]: Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice, by Lathrop and Ruma. Ruma. (Chapter 22, “All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data” by Brito and Chapter 26, “Transparency Inside Out, by Koelkebeck)
• BLOG: “Wikiworld” by Di Filippo on Pyr Books Blog. http://bit.ly/T04amZ
• WEB ARTICLE: “Why Craigslist Is Such a Mess”, by Wolf in Wired. http://bit.ly/LX5dE1
• VIDEO: “The Local Revolution Keynote at the 2012 Personal Democracy Forum” by Torpey at Personal Democracy Forum. http://bit.ly/QqaTJr
• WEB ARTICLE: “Truth in the Age of Social Media: A Social Computing and Big Data Challenge”, by Meier in iRevloution. http://bit.ly/NUYg4p
• VIDEO: “Video Introduction to Crisis Mapping” by Meier in iRevloution. http://bit.ly/NUYOqZ
• OPTIONAL: WEB ARTICLE “Ushahidi and the Long Tail of Mapping for Social Change” by Eaves in TechPresident. http://bit.ly/MUV0aE

Deliverables

• No deliverables

Readings

• BOOK [CMO COURSEPACK]: Open Government: Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice, by Lathrop and Ruma. (Chapter 2, “Government As a Platform,” by Noveck, Chapter 4, “The Single Point of Failure,” by Noveck and Chapter 12, “After the Collapse,” by Eaves)
• OPTIONAL: REPORT: “Citizen 2.0” by Barkat, Jaeggli and Dorsaz at Redcut. http://bit.ly/PXNoo9

Deliverables

• No deliverables

Readings

• WEB ARTICLE: “The Wrong War: The Insistence on Applying Cold War Metaphors to Cybersecurity Is Misplaced and Counterproductive” by Singer in Brookings http://bit.ly/NPivko
• BOOK: Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom, by MacKinnon (Chapters 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14)

Deliverables

• Blog Post 6: Outline of your final major deliverable
• Additional guidance and details will be provided in class and on the class page; http://mediapoliticspower.com

Readings

• WEB ARTICLE: “A “Cute” Facebook Revolution”, by Fathy in The Middle East Institute. http://bit.ly/N5Cb10
• WEB ARTICLE: “A Tunisian-Egyptian Link That Shook Arab History”, by Kirkpatrick and Sanger in The New York Times. http://nyti.ms/M2U1ks
• BOOK: The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, by Morozov. (Afterword only) http://scr.bi/N5BPre
• BLOG: “The #freemona Perfect Storm: Dissent and the Networked Public Sphere” by Tufekci on her Blog. http://bit.ly/NCfBC5
• VIDEO: “Ethan Zuckerman- Cute Cats and the Arab Spring: When Social Media Meet Social Change”, by Zuckerman. http://bit.ly/M2SZF5

Deliverables

• Blog Post 5: Politics (The Arab Spring, Wikileaks)

Press: Wikileaks

Readings

• WEB ARTICLE: “The Hazards of Nerd Supremacy: The Case of WikiLeaks”, by Lanier in The Atlantic. http://bit.ly/MsTgmf
• BOOK: Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom, by MacKinnon. (Chapters 5, 6, and 7)
• WEB ARTICLE: “No Secrets: Julian Assange’s mission for total transparency”, by Khatchadourian in The New Yorker. http://nyr.kr/MsTkCm

 Deliverables

• No deliverables

Readings

• HBS CASE [CMO COURSEPACK]: “Barack Obama: Organizing for America 2.0”, by Piskorski and Winig
• WEB ARTICLE: “The New Organizers, What’s really behind Obama’s ground game”, by Exley in The Huffington Post. http://huff.to/NCb7vo
• WEB ARTICLE: “Neighbor to Neighbor: How Obama Targets Undecideds Block by Block”, by Wallis in The Huffington Post http://huff.to/Pdr5Xg

Deliverables

• Blog Post 4: Politics (Persuasion / GOTV)