SYLLABUS
SIBR 1025 - Fandom, Magicks, and Collaborative Wikis
Spring Semester, 2020/2020/2020

Instructor: Risky Business, MSc of Something
Office: Clork Hall, Escher Complex, th Floor
Office Hours: email me and i will respond in three weeks
Electronic Mail Address: DONOTREPLY@sibr.dev
Telephone: 413-555-1025

Lecture/Project Topics (For more complete information, see the digital schedule on our homepage):

• Introduction
• Fandom as Performative Ritual
• Cleromancy and the IRM
• Fortune telling as collaborative storytelling
• Midterm Presentations
• Textual Poaching: Fan-fiction and World- Borrowing Spells
• Language models as necromancy
• Discourse: When Fandom Goes Wrong
• Final Presentations

Fandom, Magicks, and Collaborative Wikis (SIBR 1025) meets Monday, Post EarlDay, PreLateday, and Lateday at 2:00 in Clork Hall Room 413. Students will need to buy one or more IBM-formatted Zip disks and 3 � inch IBM-formatted floppy disks for use in projects.

Assigned Readings

• Gray, Jonathan. Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World (excerpt). NYU Press, 2007.
• Burroughs, Benjamin. “Facebook and FarmVille: A Digital Ritual Analysis of Social Gaming.” Games and Culture, vol. 9, no. 3, May 2014, pp. 151–66. SAGE Journals, doi:10.1177/1555412014535663.
• How do you design a ritual?
• Calvino, Italo. The Castle of Crossed Destinies (excerpt). Translated by William Weaver, 1st ed, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977.
• O’Neil, Cathy. “How Algorithms Rule Our Working Lives.” The Guardian, 1 Sept. 2016.
• Greenwood, Veronique. “The Shape of Ancient Dice Suggests Shifting Beliefs in Fate and Chance.” The Atlantic, Feb. 2018. The Atlantic, https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/dice-dice-baby/553742/.
• Lam, Charles. "THE VERY MERRY UN-GANGS OF DISNEYLAND." OC Weekly, Feb. 2014, https://www.ocweekly.com/the-very-merry-un-gangs-of-disneyland-6429567/?sfw=pass1615986853citation.
• The Terwillegar Cyber Wedding
• Watch in awe as a real pastor baptizes an anime girl in a video game
• Jenkins, Henry, Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. New York UP, 2006.
• Busse, Kristina. Fan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet. McFarland, 2006.

Grading policy

Here’s the breakdown of how grades correspond with percentages. Note that the completion of all components of the class is necessary to earn a passing grade.

Statement of academic integrity

Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work as though it were your own. More specifically, plagiarism is to present as your own: A sequence of words quoted without quotation marks from another writer or a paraphrased passage from another writer’s work or facts, ideas or images composed by someone else.