student presentations + term paper + next session (08/03/2018)

Dear people in Internet, Self and Society,

thanks for a fine session yesterday (01/03/2018)!

I have just sent you an email with the updated student-presentation sheet. As said yesterday, I want everybody to become involved in one presentation of a curriculum text (btw. 10 and 12 mins). There are still two empty slots (15/03/2018: Mejias (2010) + 19/04/2018: Chadwick et al. (2016)) - first come, first served; people without a presentation yet will have to join those who have one. I would like for you to organise such teams yourselves!

Next week Thursday, we will start looking into theories on how online life impacts the self/subjectivity and its formation. We will have presentations of the Turkle and the Baym text (Claudia and Tugba). Please also have a look at the other texts, especially Danah Boyd and Bakardjieva and Gaden!

Also, please start thinking a little about your term paper topics (which, if you wish, we can discuss after our Thursday classes).

I have attached to the email one example of a term paper from last year. However, this is not the original document, but a translation into English (the original was in Norwegian) that misses the original reference list and one quotation. Nevertheless, this might serve you as an example of what a (very good) term paper might look like (in terms of organisation, structure, theoretical and methodological approach as well as argument). Also, I left some of the comments in the document to give you a little insight into the process of sharpening the text further.

Have a good weekend and see you next Thursday!

All best,

Steffen