IAT810:Current events
CALENDAR
READING LIST SUBJECT TO CHANGE BASED ON NEEDS OF THE CLASS
ASSIGNMENT SUBMISSIONS: PLEASE BE SURE TO PUT YOUR DATE | NAME | STUDENT # | COURSE # ON THE TOP RIGHT OF ALL YOUR ASSIGNMENTS!!!
IN CLASS RULES
- NO LATE ASSIGNMENTS, ASSIGNMENTS TO BE HANDED IN AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS
- NO CELL PHONE, NO LAPTOPS, NO iPADS, NOTHING!
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.
Assignment DUE WEEK 2 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 Media:IAT810-HCIHistory.pdf
Discussion of lecture and Bolter & Gromala reading.
Presentation: Plato & Co. (Black Box)
Assignment DUE WEEK 3 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
The Ultimate Display, Ivan Sutherland, 1965
Week 3 : SEP21 HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY
Lecture: Prof. John Bowes, History of Communications & Media Technology (2 hours)
Presentation
Discussion Lead class discussion: Innis: Tyler Fox (~30 min.)
Assignment DUE WEEK 4 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
Discussion Remediation, relationships among old and new media
Assignments:
One page, printed both sides.
1. Examine the table of contents (TOC) of The New Media Reader. The editors organized the readings according to particular themes or ideas. Create a rough taxonomy that differs from theirs. Articulate what their criteria were, what yours is, and why yours is different in a short paragraph.
http://www.newmediareader.com/book_contents.html
2. Choose three works of new media that in some way are closely related to your research area. Each needs to be created any time at or after the year 2000. List the following information for each of the three works: title, creator(s), URL (if applicable), short description in YOUR words, short articulation of how each work relates to your research area. Articulate why you are interested in each work. Also articulate what you think may be problematic with each work.
READING ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE IN YOUR LETTER SLOTS BY FRIDAY (01OCT2010).
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 . R E M I X, 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: Gromala: Ideology. Lavin:Erin McLuhan:Jay. Forward to Media in Transition:Derek. Eisenstein's Montage:Parjad Vertov's Kino Eye:Tyler
Optional Assignments: Marvin: D'Arcy(?). Eisenstein: xxx. Tenner: Jay.
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]
- Will be distributed via hardcopy
Bizzocchi, Jim. Games and Narrative: an Analytical Framework, Loading, Online Journal of the Canadian Game Studies Association, Archives: Vol 1, Issue 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.
Van Looy, Jan and Baetans, Jan. "Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature," (pgs. 8-13), Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium, 2003
