Last update: 20 Oct 2004
Fall Readings
Readings from PHP and MySQL Web Development
Note: All chapters and pages are referenced to the second edition (2003)
Readings for Weeks 4-6
- Read all of chapter 1 (Using PHP); it's a good overview.
- Read chapter 3 (Using Arrays) up to but not including Sorting Arrays (p. 80)
- Read chapter 4 (String Manipulation...) up to but not including Introduction to Regular Expressions (p. 109)
- Read all of Chapter 5 (Reusing Code and Writing Functions)
- Chapters 2 and 6 and the remainders of 3 and 4 are optional
Readings for Weeks 7-9
- Read all of Chapter 7 (Designing Your Web Database)
- Read all of Chapter 8 (Creating Your Web Database)
- Read all of Chapter 9 (Working with Your MySQL Database)
- Read all of Chapter 10 (Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP)
- Chapter 11 is optional
Week 2 Seminar: Preparation for Northwest Social Forum
These readings are all taken from Challenging Empires which is available online at http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/informes/1557.html.
The links below all lead to pdf files.
- For Struggles, Global and National, Samir Amin interviewed by V Sridhar, p 5-11
- Confronting Empire, Arundhati Roy, p. 51-54
- The Global Justice and Solidarity Movement and the WSF: A Backgrounder, Peter Waterman, p. 55-66
- WSF -- Charter of Principles (Original), p. 67-69
- WSF -- Charter of Principles (Revised), p 70-71
- The WSF as Open Space, Chico Whitaker, p. 111-121
Week 5 Seminar: Community in the Digital Age
- Community and Technology -- A Marriage of Necessity, Doug Schuler, http://www.scn.org/ncn/chpt1.html
- 5: Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and Networked Computers, Mark Poster, p. 82-100
- 6: Our Split Screens, Sherry Turkle, p. 101-117
- 7: Online Sociability: A View from Everyday Life, Maria Bakardjieva, 121-142
- 8: Gender and the Commodification of Community: Women.com and gURL.com, Leslie Regan Shade, p. 143-160
Week 7 Seminar: Artful Integration: Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2004
- Participatory Design in Community Computing Contexts: Tales from the Field, Cecelia B. Merkel, Lu Xiao, Umer Farooq, Craig H. Ganoe, Roderick Lee, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson, p. 1-10
- The Promise and Perils of a Participatory Approach to Developing an Open Source Community Learning Network, Robert Luke, Andrew Clement, Randall Terada, Dominic Bortolussi, Cameron Booth, Derek Brooks, Darcy Christ, 11-19
- Artful Infrastructuring in Two Cases of Community PD, Helena Karasti, Anna-Liisa Syrjanen, 20-30
- Participatory Programming and the Scope of Mutual Responsibility: Balancing Scientific, Design and Software Commitment, Catherine Letondal, Wendy E. Mackay, 31-41
- Making Sense of Imbrication: Popular Technology and "Inside-Out"Methodologies, Nancy Campbell, Virginia Eubanks, 65-73
Week 9 Seminar: More Community in the Digital Age
- 10: Virtually Democratic: Online Communities and Internet Activism, Douglas Kellner and Richard Kahn, 183-200
- 11: The Practical Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship, Phillip E. Agre, 201-224
- 12: On Virtual, Democratic Communities, Amitai Etzioni, 225-238
- 13: The Internet and Political Transformation Revisited, Diane Johnson and Bruce Bimber, 239-262
- 14: Towards Civic Intelligence: Building a New Socio-Technological Infrastructure, Douglas Schuler, p. 263-285