Part I: Concepts for the study of (New) Media
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Weeks |
Days |
Topics |
Class activities |
Readings due |
Assignments |
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Wed.
08.20
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Course overview.
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visit from the library (Kim Duckett) |
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1
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Wed. 08.27 |
What's new media? |
Texts presentation: |
Manovich, "What's new media?" (pp. 18-61)
Enzensberger, "Constituents of a theory of the media" (pp. 259-275)
Baudrillard, "Requiem for the media" (pp. 277-288)
Uricchio, "Historicizing media in transition" (pp. 23-38).
Bolter, "Theory and practice in new media studies" (pp. 15-33)
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Blog post 01
Wiki 01
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2
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Wed. 09.03 |
Interface / Database |
Texts presentation:
(Dan Sutko) |
Manovich, "The Interface" (pp. 62-93)
Manovich, "The forms: The database" (pp. 212-233)
Vannevar Bush, "As we may think" (pp. 35-48)
Engelbart, "From augmenting the human intellect: (pp. 93-108)
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Blog post 02
Wiki 02
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3 |
Wed. 09.10 |
Mobility / Speed
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Texts presentation:
(Jason Kalin)
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Kellerman, "Technologies" (pp. 72-108)
Sheller & Urry, "The new mobilities paradigm" (pp. 207-226)
Jensen, "Facework, flow and the city" (pp. 143-165)
Wood and Graham, "Differential mobilities" (pp. 177-191)
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Blog post 03
Wiki 03
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4 |
Wed. 09.17
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Space / Place |
Texts presentation:
(Katie Fargo)
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Manovich, "The forms: Navigable space" (pp. 244-285)
Castells, "The space of flows" (pp. 407– 459).
Kellerman, "Places" (pp. 128-144)
Meyrowitz, "The rise of glocality" (pp. 21-30)
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Blog post 04
Wiki 04
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5 |
Wed. 09.24 |
Information / Materiality |
Texts presentation: |
Hayles, "The condition of virtuality" (pp. 68-94)
Wiener, "Men, machines, and the world about" (pp. 65-72)
Hobart & Schiffman, "The realm of pure technique" (pp. 201-234)
Lupton, "The embodied computer/user" (pp. 422-432)
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Blog post 05
Wiki 05
-- proposals for final paper due (class discussion)
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6 |
Wed. 10.01 |
Virtual / Actual
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Texts presentation:
(Zach Rash) |
de Souza e Silva, "Defining the virtual" (pp. 48-80)
Poster, "Theorizing the virtual" (pp. 129-147)
Lévy, "The nature of virtualization" (pp. 23-34)
Deleuze, "Incompossiblity, individuality, liberty" (pp. 67 -83)
Borges, "The garden of the forking paths" (pp. 29-34)
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Blog post 06
Wiki 06
-- mid-course evaluation
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Part II: "When old technologies were new"
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7
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Wed. 10.08 |
Book / Print
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Texts presentation:
(Jordan Frith) |
Hobart & Schiffman, "Printing and the rupture of classification" (pp. 87-111)
Briggs & Burke, "The print revolution in context" (pp. 15-73)
Manguel, "The shape of the book" (pp. 125-148)
Garvey, "Scissoring and scrapbooks" (pp. 207-227)
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Blog post 07
Wiki 07
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8
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Wed. 10.15 |
19-20th century technologies |
Texts presentation:
(Jacob Dickerson) |
Briggs & Burke, "Processes and patterns" (pp. 121-187)
Marvin, "Dazzling the multitude" (pp. 152-190)
Schilvelbusch, "Panoramic travel" AND "The compartment" (pp. 52-88)
Stubbs, "Telegraph's corporeal fictions" (pp. 91-112)
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Blog post 08
Wiki 08
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9 |
Wed. 10.22 |
Mass Media (Radio / TV)
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Texts presentation:
(David Gruber) |
Briggs & Burke, "Information, Education, Entertainment" (pp. 216-265)
McLuhan, "Two selections by Marshall McLuhan" (pp. 193-210)
Adorno & Horkheimer, "The culture industry" (pp. 71-101)
Benjamin, "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" (pp. 48-70)
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Blog post 09
Wiki 09
-- paper outline + initial sources due (class discussion)
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Part III: Understanding New Media as Media
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10 |
Wed. 10.29 |
E-text (Hypertext, Cybertext, Technotext) |
Texts presentation:
(Matt Morain)
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Nelson, "A file structure for the complex, the changing, and the indeterminate" (pp. 133-145)
Aarseth, "Nonlinearity and literary theory" (pp. 761-780)
Hayles, "Material metaphors, technotexts, and media-specific analysis" (pp. 18-33)
Hayles, "Translating media" (pp. 89-116)
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Blog post 10
Wiki 10
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11 |
Wed. 11.05 |
Web 2.0
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Texts presentation:
(Jamie Gilbert)
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Hardey, "The city in the age of web 2.0" (pp. 867-884)
Jenkins, "Interactive audiences?" (pp. 134-151)
Jenkins, "Pop cosmopolitanism" (pp. 152-172)
Jenkins, "Blog this!" (pp. 178-181)
Fagerjord, "Rhetorical convergence: Studying web media" (pp. 293-326)
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Blog post 11
Wiki 11 |
12 |
Wed. 11.12 |
Gaming |
Texts presentation:
(Melinda Leonardo) |
Nielsen, Smith, & Tosca, "History" (pp. 45-96)
Turkle, "Video games and computer holding power" (pp. 499-514)
Liestøl, "Computer games and the ludic structure of interpretation" (pp. 327-358)
Jenkins, "The war between effects and meanings" (pp. 208-221)
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Blog post 12
Wiki 12
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13
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Wed. 11.19 |
NCA / no class
Mobile media |
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de Souza e Silva, "From cyber to hybrid" (pp. 261-278)
Farley, "Mobile telephone history" (pp. 22-34)
Mann, Nolan & Wellman, "Sousveillance" (pp. 331-355)
Dourish, "The infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure" (pp 414-430)
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Blog post 13
Wiki 13
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Wed. 11.26
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Thanksgiving (no class) |
14 |
Wed. 12.03 |
Final presentations
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- Final paper due |
15
Finals Week
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Wed. 12.11 |
no class |
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