English / NCLC 343:001
Course Schedule
Week 1 (Aug 28-30):
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HTML and webpages
Walter Benjamin "The
Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)
Cory Doctorow, "PrintCrime" (http://www.craphound.com/overclocked/download/)
Vannevar Bush "As
We May Think" (1945)
Week 2 (Sept 4-6):
HT3.0 chapter 1
Cory Doctorow "You Do Like
Reading Off a Computer Screen"
Stuart Moulthrop "Hegirascope"
Week 3 (Sept 11-13):
HT 3.0 chapters 2 & 3
The Victorian Web
Week 4 (Sept 18-20):
Deena Larsen "Firefly" & "Stained
Word Window"
Augmented Text (Hypertext Annotation)
Week 5 (Sept 25-27):
HT 3.0 chapter 4
Stephanie Strickland "Vniverse"
Week 6 (Oct 2-4):
HT 3.0 chapter 5
Critique 1
Week 7 (Oct 11): Columbus Day Recess
(Monday classes meet Tuesday;
Tuesday classes do not meet).
From Cyberartsweb:
- Steve Cook "Inf(l)ections"
- Jeff Pack "Growing up Digerate"
Week 8 (Oct 16-18):
HT 3.0 chapter chapter 6 (pages 215-229, 245-271)
Caitlin Fisher "These
Waves of Girls"
Colossal
Cave (Adventure)
Emily Short
Interactive Fictions
Week 9 (Oct 23-25):
HT 3.0 chapter 7, pages 309-320)
Critique 2
Week 10 (OCT 30-Nov 1):
HT 3.0, chapter 8
Cory Doctorow, "Microsoft
Research DRM Talk" (in particular part 4, "DRM systems are bad
for artists")
Week 11 (Nov 6-8):
Wikipedia
Slashdot
Roy Rosenzweig, "Can
History be Open-Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past"
Begin Wikipedia Assignment
Week 12 (Nov 13-15):
Michael Gorman Britannica
Blog articles
Scott McLemee "Mass
Culture 2.0" (Inside Higher Ed. 2007)
A response to Michael Gorman's anti-web articles
Wikipedia assignment
Week 13 (Nov 20):
Begin Final Projects
Thanksgiving Break
Week 14 (Nov 27-29):
Stuart Moulthrop "After
the Last Generation: Rethinking Scholarship in the Days of Serious Play" (pdf)
Workshop final projects
Week 15 (Dec 4-6):
Presentations