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CALENDAR

READING LIST SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON NEEDS OF THE CLASS


Week 1 : SEP07 . HISTORY OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss: (refer to bottom of page for .pdf of the readings)

a) Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave,” in the Republic, Book VII. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000. 13-18.

b) Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,”

c) Bolter & Gromala. “Text Rain,” in Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

d) Booth, Wayne C., Colomb, Gregory G. and Williams, Joseph M. The Craft of Research, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 35-57.


Bring to class and turn in, 2 copies of one page that contains:

1. A reading that you consider to be essential for a course like this, properly cited (any academic bibliographic citation style is acceptable).

2. Your research question (this week’s version). By the way you structure this, you must demonstrate that you have a clear understanding of the reading from The Craft of Research.

3. Your definition of (what constitutes) New Media, with examples. You need to write this in the form of an argument, not opinion or anecdote. State your position and provide examples. Include counter-positions and tell us why you don't think they are as valid as your definition. What are the boundaries of what counts as New Media? What is included? What is excluded? Why?



Week 2 : SEP14 . HISTORY OF COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY

Lecture: Prof. Chris Shaw, History of Computer Technology

Discussion of lecture and Bolter & Gromala reading.

Presentation: Plato & Co. (Black Box)

Assignment One page, 9pt., 1.5 line spacing, printed both sides, to be handed in after grammar & spelling are checked

1. write about one aspect of Benjamin's reading (1 page)

2. define the difference between media and technology. Use examples to support your views. (half page, other side of same piece of paper)

Include at least 3 references, from class readings or other readings.


For Week 3, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Innis, H. The Bias of Communication, 1951, Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Press, pgs. 33-60.

b) Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet, NY, Penguin Putnam, 1998 (pgs. 57-65, 100-104, 145-163, 204-213)


Optional readings: available in The New Media Reader, Wardrip-Fruin & Montfort, eds.

As We May Think, Vannevar Bush, 1945

Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing, 1950

Man-Computer Symbiosis, J. C. R. Licklider, 1960

From Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework, Douglas Engelbart, 1962

Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System, Ivan Sutherland, 1963



Week 3 : SEP21 HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

Lecture: Prof. John Bowes, History of Communications & Media Technology (1.5 hours)

Presentation Lead class discussion: Innis: Tyler Fox

Discussion

Assignment Print out one on piece of paper, both sides:

side 1: List New Media (half page), list Traditional Media (half page)

side 2: What criteria did you use to distinguish between New and Traditional Media? How, when or why will so-called New Media become old? (one page)


For Week 4, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Bolter, J. David & Grusin, Richard. "Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation", pgs. 20 - 50, from Remediation, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1999

b) Lavin, Maud. “The Berlin Dada Photomontages”. (pgs. 13- 46) from Cut with the Kitchen Knife: the Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch.


Optional readings:

When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century, Carolyn Marvin

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Edward Tenner



Week 4 : SEP28 . MEDIA, MEDIATION, REMEDIATION, IMMEDIACY

Presentation:

Discussion


For Week 5, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Forward to Media in Transition Book Series, David Throburn, editor, Edward Barrett, Henry Jenkins, associate editors, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

b) McLuhan, Marshall. The Playboy Interview (pgs. 233-269) in The Essential McLuhan, ed. Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, NY, Harper Collins, 1998


Optional readings:

S. M. Eisenstein - Selected Works Vol. 2: Towards a Theory of Montage, 1937-40 (v. 2), Sergei Eisenstein

Kino-Eye: The Writings of Dziga Vertov',' Dziga Vertov



Week 5 : OCT05 . M A S H U P S, C O N V E R G E N C E, M A C H I N I M A

Presentation:

Discussion

Assignment


For Week 6, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2001, pgs. 212-285, 314-333

b) Murray, Janet. "The Four Essential Properties of Digital Environments," pgs. 71-94, from Hamlet on the Holodeck, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998.

c) Murray, Janet. "The Aesthetics of the Medium," pgs. 97 - 182, from Hamlet on the Holodeck, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998.



Week 6 : OCT12 . S T R U C T U R A L P R I N C I P L E S

Presentation:

Discussion

Assignment Which of the various definitions of aesthetics do Manovich and Murray refer?


For Week 7, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Introduction to Narrative Concepts: Jim Bizzocchi author & editor [includes excerpts from David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Gary Larson, and others]

b) Bizzocchi, Jim. Games and Narrative: an Analytical Framework, Loading, Online Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Vol 1, No 1 (2007), <http://journals.sfu.ca/loading/index.php/loading/>

c) Ryan, Marie-Laure. Avatars of Story (pgs. 6 - 16), Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2006



Week 7 : OCT19. NARRATIVE, NARRATOLOGY

Presentation:

Discussion


For Week 8, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Ryan, Marie-Laure, "Will New Media produce New Narratives", pgs. 337-359 in Narratives across Media: the Languages of Storytelling, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lincoln Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004



Week 8 : OCT26 . N A R R A T I V E + I N T E R A CT I V I T Y

Presentation:

Discussion


For Week 9, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Crawford, Chris. The Art of Interactive Design, pgs. 77-90, No Starch Press, San Francisco, 2003

b) Eskelinen, Markku. "Towards Computer Game Studies," pgs. 36-44 in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2004

c) Juul, Jesper. "Introduction to Game Time", pgs. 131-142 in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2004



Week 9 : NOV02. INTERACTION, VIDEOGAMES

Presentation:

Discussion


For Week 10, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Barthes, Roland. "Death of the Author", pgs. 142 - 148 in Image-Music-Text, Roland Barthes, [transl. Stephen Heath], NY, Hill and Wang, 1997

b) Eco, Umberto. The Open Work, Translated by Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.



Week 10 : NOV09. AUTHORSHIP, CO-AUTHORSHIP+ INTERACTION

Presentation

Discussion


For Week 11, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Gunning, Tom. "The Cinema of Attractions", in Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, BFI Publishing, London, 1990. (pgs. 56-67)


Optional readings:

Society of the Spectacle, Guy deBord




Week 11 : NOV16 REAL, MODEL, SIMULATION

FINAL PAPERS DUE!

Presentation

Discussion


For Week 12, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2001, pgs. 176-212.




Week 12 : NOV23 EMBODIMENT

Presentation

Discussion


For Week 13, be sure you have read and are prepared to discuss:

a) Noosphere, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

b) Readings from: The Rise of the Network Society, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. I.; The Power of Identity, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. II.; End of Millennium, The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture Vol. III., Manuel Castells




Week 13 : NOV30 GLOBALIZATION,

Presentation:

Discussion





Readings


Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave,” in the Republic, Book VII. Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000. 13-18.


Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,”


Bolter & Gromala. “Text Rain,” in Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.


Booth, Wayne C., Colomb, Gregory G. and Williams, Joseph M. The Craft of Research, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 35-57.


Innis, H. The Bias of Communication, 1951, Toronto, ON, University of Toronto Press, pgs. 33-60.


Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet, NY, Penguin Putnam, 1998 (pgs. 57-65, 100-104, 145-163, 204-213)


Bolter, J. David & Grusin, Richard. "Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation", pgs. 20 - 50, from Remediation, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1999


Lavin, Maud. “The Berlin Dada Photomontages”. (pgs. 13- 46) from Cut with the Kitchen Knife: the Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Hoch.


Forward to Media in Transition Book Series, David Throburn, editor, Edward Barrett, Henry Jenkins, associate editors, MIT Press, Cambridge MA.


McLuhan, Marshall. The Playboy Interview (pgs. 233-269) in The Essential McLuhan, ed. Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone, NY, Harper Collins, 1998


Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2001, pgs. 212-285, 314-333


Murray, Janet. "The Four Essential Properties of Digital Environments," pgs. 71-94, from Hamlet on the Holodeck, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998.


Murray, Janet. "The Aesthetics of the Medium," pgs. 97 - 182, from Hamlet on the Holodeck, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1998.


Introduction to Narrative Concepts: Jim Bizzocchi author & editor [includes excerpts from David Bordwell, Kristin Thompson, Gary Larson, and others]


Bizzocchi, Jim. Games and Narrative: an Analytical Framework, Loading, Online Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Vol 1, No 1 (2007),


Ryan, Marie-Laure. Avatars of Story (pgs. 6 - 16), Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2006


Ryan, Marie-Laure, "Will New Media produce New Narratives", pgs. 337-359 in Narratives across Media: the Languages of Storytelling, ed. Marie-Laure Ryan, Lincoln Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 2004


Crawford, Chris. The Art of Interactive Design, pgs. 77-90, No Starch Press, San Francisco, 2003


Eskelinen, Markku. "Towards Computer Game Studies," pgs. 36-44 in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2004


Juul, Jesper. "Introduction to Game Time", pgs. 131-142 in First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Harrigan, Pat, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2004


Barthes, Roland. "Death of the Author", pgs. 142 - 148 in Image-Music-Text, Roland Barthes, [transl. Stephen Heath], NY, Hill and Wang, 1997


Eco, Umberto. The Open Work, Translated by Anna Cancogni, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989.


Gunning, Tom. "The Cinema of Attractions", in Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative, ed. Thomas Elsaesser, BFI Publishing, London, 1990. (pgs. 56-67)


Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media, Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 2001, pgs. 176-212.