| Homework |
Due Date |
| Week One: Introduction to Social Media |
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Lev Manovich, "What is New Media?" in The Language of New Media, chapter 1, pages 18-61.
Ian Bogost, "A Professor's Impressions of Facebook" |
9/29: Monday |
| Vannevar Bush, “As We May Think” |
10/1: Wednesday |
| Week Two: Intertextuality |
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Video Gallery I: Copyright videos
Richard Stallman, "The GNU Manifesto" |
10/6: Monday |
Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture (Introduction)
Lawrence Lessig, Code 2.0 ("cyberspaces" and "what things regulate") |
10/8: Wednesday |
| Week Three: Paths of Most Resistance / Anonymity, Identity, and the Critique of Heterosexism |
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Video Gallery II: Sexuality videos
Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"
Amy Bruckman, "The Turing Game: Exploring Identity in an Online Environment"
dana boyd - "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace."
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10/13: Monday |
Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
dana boyd - "Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?" |
10/15: Wednesday |
| Week Four: Constructing and Deconstructing Spaces and Stories |
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Lev Manovich, "The Interface" in The Language of New Media, chapter 2, pages 62-115
Edward Tufte - The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (handout)
Ellen Strenski's The PowerPoint Debate |
10/20: Monday |
The Electronic Literature Organization Volume One and showcase
"The Unknown"
Lev Manovich, “Generation Flash" |
10/22: Wednesday |
| Week Five: Public Spheres and Blogospheres |
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Video Gallery III: Disability Videos
Weizenbaum’s ELIZA
Weizenbaum Essay (handout) |
10/27: Monday |
Geert Lovink, “The Pride and Glory of Web 2.0” and “Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse" in Zero Comments, introduction and chapter 1, pages ix-xxviii and 1-38
Video Gallery IV: Blogging panel videos |
10/29: Wednesday |
| Week Six: How is Truth Framed? |
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| Ellen Strenski's Encyclopedia Britannica vs. Wikipedia |
11/3: Monday |
| Video Gallery V: Sample YouTube Video Essays (privacy, publicity, network neutrality, student life, social media, electronic text, etc.) |
11/5: Wednesday |
| Week Seven: Virtual Worlds |
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Video Gallery VI: Virtual Worlds Videos
Lev Manovich, "The Forms" in The Language of New Media, chapter 5, pages 213-236, 244-259, and 284-285. |
11/10: Monday |
| Geert Lovink, “Updating Tactical Media” in Zero Comments, chapter 8, pages 185-193 and 199-205. |
11/12: Wednesday |
| Week Eight: Remix Culture -- YouTube/NicheTube |
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Video Gallery VII: Internet Memes
Lev Manovich, "The Operations" and "The Illusions" in The Language of New Media, chapters 3 and 4, pages 116-211. |
11/17: Monday |
| Henry Jenkins - Nine Propositions Toward a Cultural Theory of YouTube |
11/19: Wednesday |
| Week Nine: Interactive Texts |
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Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games, chapter 1
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11/24: Monday |
| Geert Lovink, “The Cool Obscure” in Zero Comments, chapter 2, pages 39-47, 52-69, and 78-80. |
11/26: Wednesday |
Week Ten: Tactical Media
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| Geert Lovink, “Axioms of Free Cooperation” in Zero Comments, chapter 9, pages 207-233 |
12/1: Monday |
| No Class |
12/3: Wednesday |
| Finals Week Ten |
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| Review Readings |
12/18: Monday 4PM |
