LIS 598 Janes

Winter 2004

 

Google the Cultural Phenomenon

 

 

Cynthia Flash, “Google for A Grade”, Seattle Times, 2/2/2004

 

questions for class discussion

Why is this topic even here?  Why did Google become a “cultural phenomenon”?

Why was this course of interest from a media perspective?  Are we now part of the cultural phenom?

How has the story of this course been discussed in the blog/Web world, and what do you take from that?

Is this a Google-only thing?  What other Internet/Web “things” have become cultural phenomena?  And what do we learn from that?

 

fan sites

Googled

 

discussion & general sites

Google Weblog (blogspace)

Watching Google Like a Hawk

 

various weirdnesses

Sergey Brin’s homepage (Stanford)

Google Publishes Print Edition

the Google Zeitgeist