week |
date |
class |
reading due |
assignment due |
| 1 | Tues Aug 24 | introduction | ||
| Thurs Aug 26 | Discussion – what is a technology? |
Williams, "The Technology and the
Society" ( NMR 289-300). Sloop, "Ideology" (Unspun 88-99). |
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| 2 | Tues Aug 31 | Discussion – politics |
Winner, "Mythinformation" ( NMR 587-598). Mosco, "Political Economy" ( Unspun 51-65). Luke, "Governance" ( Unspun 73-87). |
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| Thurs Sep 2 | lab - politics online | class exercise link | ||
| 3 | Tues Sep 7 | Discussion – culture |
Nichols, "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetics"
(NMR 625-641). |
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| Thurs Sep 9 | Proposals due. lab - technology reviews | project proposal | ||
| 4 | Tues Sep 14 | Discussion – identity online |
Dean, "Community" ( Unspun 4-16). Fuchs, "Gender" ( Unspun 30-38). Nakamura, "Race" ( Unspun 39-50). |
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| Thurs Sep 16 | Technology reviews due. Lab – Habbo Hotel | technology review | ||
| 5 | Tues Sep 21 | Discussion – the history of gaming |
Turkle, "Video Games and Computer Holding Power"
( NMR 499-513). Laurel, “Two Selections by Brenda Laurel” (NMR 563-573). |
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| Thurs Sep 23 | Lab – gaming. Bring your NMR CD-ROM. | |||
| 6 | Tues Sep 28 | Discussion – building an online gaming community |
Morningstar/Farmer, "The Lessons of Lucasfilms Habitat" ( NMR 663-677). |
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| Thurs Sept 30 | lab - literature review | |||
| 7 | Tues Oct 5 | Discussion – hypertext |
Kirschenbaum, "Hypertext" ( Unspun 120-137). Tabbi, "Narrative" ( Unspun 138-147). Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" ( NMR 29-34). Nelson, "As We May Think" ( NMR 35-47). |
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| Thurs Oct 7 | lab - hypertexts | |||
| 8 | Tues Oct 12 | Discussion – multimedia |
Cubitt, "Multimedia" (Unspun
162-168). Kay/Goldberg, "Personal Dynamic Media" (NMR 391-404). Weinbren, "In the Oceans of Streams of Story" (NMR CD-Rom). |
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| Thurs Oct 14 | Literature Reviews Due. Lab - multimedia | literature review | ||
| 9 | Tues Oct 19 | Discussion – net art |
“Four Selections by Experiments in Art and Technology” (NMR 211-226). | |
| Thurs Oct 21 | lab - net art | |||
| 10 | Tues Oct 26 | Discussion – Cyberspace |
Shields, “Cyberspace” (Unspun
66-72). Dietrich, "Performance" ( Unspun 100-119). |
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| Thurs Oct 28 | Lab - Cyberspace | |||
| 11 | Tues Nov 2 | Discussion - wikis | ||
| Thurs Nov 4 | lab - analysis papers | |||
| 12 | Tues Nov 9 | Discussion – Open Source |
Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 1-112. Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto" (NMR 543-550) |
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| Thurs Nov 11 | veteran's day - no class | |||
| 13 | Tues Nov 16 | Discussion – Open Source (continued) |
Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, 113-213. | |
| Thurs Nov 18 | Lab - final presentation | analysis paper | ||
| Nov 22 - 26 | thanksgiving week - no class | |||
| 14 | Tues Nov 30 | project presentations | ||
| Thurs Dec 2 | project presentations | |||
| 15 | Tues Dec 7 | project presentations | ||
| Thurs Dec 9 | project presentations |