Week One:
Monday, 5/21: Syllabus and Introductions.
Wednesday, 5/23: NO CLASS: 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 (alternative) about Textual Poachers http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/consume.html
— What is New Media? http://manovich.net/new_media_images.html
— (optional) Bailey Socha and Barbara Eber-Schmid WHAT IS NEW MEDIA? Defining New Media Isn’t Easy, New Media Institute http://www.newmedia.org/what-is-new-media.html
Assignment
A blog posting assignment (check the blog for (short) assignment details due Friday)
Friday, 5/25: NO CLASS: Marshall McLuhan, Robert Heilbroner, and Raymond Williams.
Readings:
–Robert Heilbroner, “Do Machines Make History?” (1967)
–Raymond Williams, “The Technology and Society,” in Television: Technology and Cultural Form.
A blog posting assignment due (check the blog for assignment details)
Week Two:
Monday, 5/28: NO CLASS: Memorial Day
Wednesday, 5/30:
Readings:
Lev Manovich, “New Media, From Borges to HTML,” (13-25)
http://web.cfa.arizona.edu/art435a/readings/nmr_intro_2_manovich.pdf
–Leo Marx, “Technology: The Emergence of Hazardous Concept,” http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Marx-TC-2010-51.pdf
Friday, 6/1: Short paper due on Wednesday 6/6 (2 – 3 pages double-spaced)
–Scott McCloud, “Time Frames,” (711-735.)
–Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, “Using Computers: A Direction for Design,” (551-562).
Week Three:
Monday, 6/4:
Wednesday, 6/6: Short paper due: Technological focus: The computer/ the web
In-class video: Daniel Kahneman, ‘Thinking That We Know”
Claude Fischer, American Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940, selections (provided).
Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think,” (37-47)http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/3881/
x–Jan L. Bordewijk and Ben van Kaam, “Towards a New Classification of Tele-Information Services.” (Google Doc) [get pdf]
Friday, 6/8:
Readings:
x–Daniel Hillis, Selections from The Pattern on the Stone (provided).
–Ted Nelson, “Computer Lib/ Dream Machines,” (301-338) http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-21-nelson.pdf
x–Tim Berners Lee, et. al “The World Wide Web,” (791-802).
Week Four:
Monday, 6/11: ****Blog Post 2 due****
review all readings
Wednesday, 6/13:****Midterm Exam****
Bring exam book
Friday, 6/15: Guest Lecturer rescheduled
Week Five:
Monday, 6/18: Gaming
–Sherry Turkle, “Video Games and Computer Holding Power,” (500-513) http://www.newmediareader.com/book_samples/nmr-34-turkle.pdf
*Short Media Assignment Due*
Wednesday, 6/20: Guest Lecturer: Kate Rutter
NCSA Guide to HTML
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/About/The_Courses/cs301/html/HTMLPrimerAll.html
Friday, 6/22: Guest Lecturer: Richart Ault
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) http://www.eco-action.org/dt/mythin.html
Week Six:
Monday, 6/25: Blog Post 4 Due
Zadie Smith, Generation Why? Click Here
New York Times, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy?” Click Here
Wednesday, 6/27: Mobility, Convergence, Security
Doc Searls, The Cluetrain Manifesto, 95 Theses, http://www.cluetrain.com/book/95-theses.html
Rob Frieden, “The Impact of Technological and Market Convergence” Click Here
Susan Landau, et al. “Communications in the 1990s” Click Here
Friday, 6/29: *Projects Due*
– project presentations