New Media and the Presidential Race:

A Classroom Tool

LPS Johanna Roering, WS 2007/2008 University of Tuebingen

Tutorin: Kim Unger

Our Wiki-Entries on New Media and the Presidential Race

Name (of group)	Title of your paper
Anina, Anni, Conny, Kristin	The Future of The New York Times
Christian, Steffen	Independent Media vs.conventional news sites
political news blogs 1) Manuel 2) Alex	1) It is not David vs Goliath 2)From a diary to a news portal
Simone, Ahmed, Benjamin, Marcel	Barack Obama`s My Space
Marion	Speech Situation on the official Ron Paul Homepage
Marc	Grassroots on the official Ron Paul wesite. Bottom-up or top-down?
Julia Fr. & Amanda	Are Blogs the New Newspapers?
DerArmin	The Ron Paul Galaxy

	Part I: Theoretical Texts
8.11.	Introduction to Media Studies	McLuhan: The Medium is the Message
22.11.	New Media Studies	Martin Lister: New Media and New Technologies
29.11.	Social Software	danah boyd: The Significance of Social Software/ None of this is Real
6.12.	Identity	Jenny Sundén: Material Virtualities
13.12.	Politics and the Web	Mark Poster: Cyberdemocracy and the Public Sphere
20.12.	Politics and the Web	Richard Davis: The Web of Politics

	Part II: Analyzing New Media

10.1.2008	Major Candidates Websites	www.ronpaul.com
17.1.2008	Candidates' Social Software	http://www.myspace.com/barackobama
24.1.2008	Major News Blogs	http://tpmelectioncentral.com
31.1.2008	Online Newspapers	www.nytimes.com
07.02.2008	Independent Media	www.alternet.org
	test page

The rest of the calendar including all the discussion of our theoretical readings

can be seen here

Information for Students:

The Presidential Race. Links and More:

Links to new media concerned with the presidential race.

Be Creative:

Key terms to consider when doing you analysis
Creative space: Fool around, exchange links, have a good time.
SandBox: Play with the Wiki

What this Wiki is for:

This Wiki is a tool to support the media studies class: New Media and the Presidential Race, held at the University of Tuebingen WS 2007/08.

The main goal of the class is media literacy. We will approach this through reading and understanding theoretical texts, analysing different sources and producing text.

How we are Using the Wiki:We are not using the Wiki like a Wiki!

We are using it as a tool to publish texts produced for and after the class and to communicate about these texts.

That means we are not using the Wiki to collaborate in the production of texts but to exchange material and knowledge and to publish what we produce in class. After we have finished the class, the Wiki will function as a collection of our theory discussions and of the texts we produced in class.

How you can make this Wiki work:

This is a public place, play fair! Stick to the rules and requirements.