Jan. 8: Course Introduction: Popular Culture and Mass Media.
Jan. 9: LAB #1: Computer and Email Accounts. Email Instructor. Mail and News Preferences. Post a welcome message to the newsgroup.

Jan. 15: Notes Towards a Definition of Culture. & Jürgen Habermas and the Public Sphere.
Jan. 16: LAB #2: HTML Workshop. Web Folders. Newsgroup Posting #1 due.

Jan. 22: Identity and Performance in Cyberspace. Hacker's Manifesto by The Mentor.
Jan. 23: Lab #3: HTML Workshop.

Jan. 29: Public Relations: An Introduction by Stuart Ewen. No Logo by Naomi Klein.
Jan. 30: Lab #4: Images for Webpages. Newsgroup Narrative begins.

Feb. 5: Travels in Virtual Reality.
Feb. 6: Lab #5: Demo Media Profiles

Feb. 12: You Are Cyborg. Cyborg Sightings.
Feb. 13: Lab #6: Sylvie Demo. Psychographic Survey.

Feb. 19: Canadian Media Theory: Harold Adams Innis & Marshall McLuhan.
Feb. 20: Midterm

Feb. 25 to Mar. 1: Study Days: No Classes.

Mar. 5: Listening to the Military
Feature Writing
Mar. 6 : Lab #8: HTML Checklist and Tutorials

Mar. 12: Resonant Media.
Mar. 13: Lab #9: Audio on Webpages. Newsgroup Posting #3

Mar. 19: Music and Intellectual Property. Electronic Documentation.
Mar. 20: Feature Article Due/Demonstration.

Mar. 26: Pixel Visions: The Resurgence of Video Activism
A Lot of Noise, But Just a Few Voices: Report on media ownwrship in Canada, 2001
The 100 Largest Economic Entities: MSWord file.
Mar. 27: Lab: New Assignment: Globalization Research

Apr. 2: Public Advocacy and Public Space. Temporary Autonomous Zones: Hakim Bey (Read "Pirate Utopias" and "Waiting for the Revolution."
Apr. 3: Lab: Research Globalization Project

Apr. 9: Review for Final.
Apr. 10: Due: Globalization Research Project. Online Final