{"id":77,"date":"2012-01-18T13:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T13:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-11-19T01:56:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T01:56:57","slug":"course-intro-american-people-in-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/course-intro-american-people-in-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Course Intro, American People in 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We used to think the early 2000s would look like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8ld6xRIDwyo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But apparently, we were wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the statistical list in the back of the Chafe book, we might also explore other ways to look at change over time.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe language and word frequency:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/content\/wordfrequency#internet\">Popular Science Archive Explorer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or the Popularity of Names:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.babynamewizard.com\/voyager#\">Name Voyager<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or the top Google searches for each year (since 2001):<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/en\/press\/zeitgeist\/yearend.html\">Google Zeitgeist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or how the future looked from the past:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.retronaut.co\/2011\/12\/retro-futurism-in-french-childrens-encyclopedias-1945-1975\/\">French Retro-Futurism, 1940s-1970s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What to do by Friday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read the syllabus<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read HOT pp. 1-12 (McMahon, \u201cWorld War II and the Destruction of the Old Order\u201d) &amp; Moss, 1-18 \u201cPostwar America\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Bring a discussion question on these readings to Friday\u2019s class<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Explore one thing on Billy Joel\u2019s list (<a href=\"http:\/\/yeli.us\/Flash\/Fire.html\">video is here<\/a>) that you didn\u2019t know before (please try not to use Wikipedia), and be prepared to talk intelligently about it<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Find a reliable news source &amp; start paying attention<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We used to think the early 2000s would look like this: But apparently, we were wrong. In addition to the statistical list in the back of the Chafe book, we might also explore other ways to look at change over time. Maybe language and word frequency: Popular Science Archive Explorer or the Popularity of Names: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberhistory","tag-spr12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.tonahangen.com\/hi203\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}