Class Sixteen: The Social in Social Media
A draft of a video essay - how does it posit a public sphere?
Tools:
Audo editing: Audacity
To convert files: MPEG Streamclip
Screen Shots: print screen for Windows or trial of SnagIt or for Mac use "grab" function or use the screenshot function of Zotero
Screen Capture: CamStudio, Camtasia (trial version), etc.
Other Tools, which I haven't used and so can't vouch for:
Flash to Quicktime: Vixy, Flvix, vConvert, etc.
DVD-ripping: Mac the Ripper, Handbrake, ffmegx
Ripped DVDs to Quicktimes: Cinematize, Streamclip, etc.
Online editing: Jumpcut
Social media and social computing: informing, reputation-building, and expressing
Indexing/tags as social - search as social
Digital divides - class (boyd and Hargittai), programming ability (Castells, Bruckman, etc.), etc.
Communities around alternative practices
Critiques of heterosexism and ideologies of reason and rationality.
