OCTOBER 2, 2017 Class Notes
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2 min readOct 3, 2017
HOUSEKEEPING
- Posts are due SATURDAYS BY 5PM
1. Reminders / Due Dates
- A reporting plan, October 9. → NEXT WEEK!
- Moodboards, due beginning November 13
- Final papers — DUE DECEMBER 15 by 5:00 pm
2. Check-ins next week: I have invited everyone to a Sign-Up genius. Slots are for live or google hangout. Please pick a slot!
3. Other issues / concerns
Next Week — Week 6 — October 9 — REPORTING PLANS
- Assignment Due This Week: [Email links to posts to Professor by 5pm on Saturday, October 7]
- Reporting plan — Recap of required items is below.
- Tracking / log post
2. Reading Due This Week:
- None — work on your reporting plans!
This week
- Lecture Notes — https://www.evernote.com/l/ABRdxE5HhdZGt44pNtKIprw3yTTMhovyooI
- Review reading / watch blog posts
- Questions about your reporting plan? Remember, it is a 1-page roadmap and schedule:
- Recap — Venue, demo, neighborhood
- Research targets — You haven’t done the work yet but let me know how you will research, who you intend to talk to, archives you plan to engage
- Venue’s history — founders, circumstances of founding, story of venue from the to now
- Venue’s business model / advertising strategy
- Venue’s reach / audience / size — how will you find out?
- Venue’s archive — print / digital / radio / broadcast all have different requirements. How will you access?
- Competitive landscape
- Share some initial/preliminary hypotheses — By 10/9 you will have spent almost a month looking at your venue. See anything of note so far? Take a risk!
- Timeline — What will be done any when. Keep in mind that the syllabus has cordoned off December 4th as workshop day for your final papers, so I would need a draft to review the week before to be able to provide meaningful feedback.
