Schedule

Week One:

Monday, 5/23: Syllabus and Introductions.

-In-class exercise: What is New Media (after 2003?)

Wednesday, 5/25: Opposing (?) Views of New Media: Lev Manovich and Henry Jenkins

Readings

–The Practice of Everyday (Media?) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass Cultural Production? (2009).

–Excerpt from Textual Poachers

Friday, 5/27: Marshall McLuhan, Robert Heilbroner, and Raymond Williams.

Readings:

–Robert Heilbroner, “Do Machines Make History?” (1967)

–Marshall McLuhan, excerpt from The Gutenberg Galaxy.

–Raymond Williams, “The Technology and Society,” in Television: Technology and Cultural Form.

Week Two:

Monday, 5/30: Memorial Day (No Class)

Wednesday, 6/1: Short paper due (3 pages double-spaced)

Readings:

Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think,” (37-47)

Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” (49-64)

Lev Manovich, “New Media, From Borges to HTML,” (14-25)

Friday, 6/3:

Leo Marx, “Technology: The Emergence of Hazardous Concept,”

Scott McCloud, “Time Frames,” (711-735.)

Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, “Using Computers: A Direction for Design,” (551-562).

*In-class video production exercise*

Week Three:

Monday, 6/6: Technological focus: Telecom

Readings:

Claude Fischer, American Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940, selections (provided).

Jan L. Bordewijk and Ben van Kaam, “Towards a New Classification of Tele-Information Services.”

Wednesday, 6/8: Technological focus: The computer/ the web

Readings:

Daniel Hillis, Selections from The Pattern on the Stone (provided).

Ted Nelson, “Computer Lib/ Dream Machines,” (301-338)

Tim Berners Lee, et. al “The World Wide Web,” (791-802).

Friday, 6/10: *Midterm Exam*

Week Four:

Monday, 6/13: Film Narrative/Film Form

David Bordwell, Film Art

Kuleshov, “Art of the Cinema” Click Here

Wednesday, 6/15: Film/Media Style

Ken Dacynger, “The Technique of Film and Video Editing” Click Here

David A. Shamma, “Knowing Funny,” CHI Click Here

Friday, 6/17: Film/Video storytelling

Augusto Boal, “From the Theater of the Oppressed,” (341-353)

*Update: short media production*

Week Five:

Monday, 6/20: Gaming

Sherry Turkle, “Video Games and Computer Holding Power,” (500-513)

*Short Media Assignment Due*

Wednesday, 6/22: Privacy

Philip E. Agre, “Surveillance and Capture, Two Models of Privacy,” (737-757)

Helen Nissenbaum, Selections from Privacy in Context Click Here

Optional: Langdon Winner, “Mythinformation,” (589-598)

Friday, 6/24: Human Experience?/Critique of AI

Lucy A. Suchman, “From Plans and Situated Actions,” (599-609)

Week Six:

Monday, 6/27: Social Media

Zadie Smith, Generation Why? Click Here

New York Times, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy?” Click Here

Wednesday, 6/29: Mobility, Convergence, Security

Rob Frieden, “The Impact of Technological and Market Convergence” Click Here

Susan Landau, et al. “Communications in the 1990s” Click Here

Friday, 7/1: *Final Exam*

2 Responses to Schedule

  1. Group 3, Pens says:

    6/27 Social Media Group 3

  2. Group 3, Short Media Production Schedule says:

    Preproduction: by Monday, June 13th
    Production: Tuesday, June 14th and Wednesday, June 15th
    Postproduction: June 17th and 18th
    Final Meeting: June 19th

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