IAT810:Current events
CALENDAR
READING LIST SUBJECT TO CHANGE
Week 1 : SEP07 HISTORY
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
2. your research question (this week’s version) that demonstrates that you have a clear understanding of The Craft of Research reading
3. your definition of what constitutes New Media, with examples
Week 2 : SEP14 HISTORY
Lecture: Prof. Chris Shaw, History of Computer Technology
Presentation: Plato & Co. (Black Box)
Discussion
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
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 MEDIA, MEDIATION, REMEDIATION
Lecture: Prof. John Bowes, History of Communications & Media Technology
Presentation:
Discussion
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.
Week 4 : SEP28
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
Week 5 : OCT05
Presentation:
Discussion
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
Presentation:
Discussion
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
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
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
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
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.
Optional readings: Society of the SPectacle, Guy deBord
Week 11 : NOV16
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
Presentation:
Discussion
Week 13 : NOV30
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.
Van Looy, Jan and Baetans, Jan. "Close Reading New Media: Analyzing Electronic Literature," (pgs. 8-13), Leuven University Press, Leuven, Belgium, 2003
Turkle, Sherry. Simulation and Its Discontents, Cambridge, MIT Press, 2009. 1-70.
