Schedule

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 Theseshttp://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