Schedule

Week by week course schedule:

Sep 06 - Introduction

INTRODUCTION

Hellos.
How do we discuss the future?
Final Paper.

Sep 11 - Framing the Future

FRAMING THE FUTURE

Analog Nokia
Complete DIY Instructions

Bert is Evil
http://www.bertisevil.tv/

readings:

Thomas de Zengotita, "The Numbing of the American Mind" from Harper's Magazine

Henry Jenkins, "'Worship at the Altar of Convergence:' A New Paradigm for Understanding Media Change."

Attachment	Size
Thomas_de_Zengotita_Numbing_American_Mind.pdf	1.44 MB
Henry_Jenkins_Worship_at_the_Altar_of_Convergence.pdf	1.4 MB

Sep 13 - History of z Internet

BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET

lecture notes:
Before Paris: a brief his[tory] of the internet

readings:
Bruce Sterling, "A Short History of the Internet"

Bertolt Brecht, "The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication"

William Gibson, excerpt from Neuromancer

Attachment	Size
Bruce_Sterling_A_Short_History_of_the_Internet.pdf	70.41 KB
Bertolt_Brecht_The_Radio_as_an_Apparatus_of_Communication.pdf	26.4 KB
William_Gibson_Neuromancer_Ch4.pdf	1.24 MB

Sep 18 - How I Lost My Aura

HOW I LOST MY AURA

lecture notes:
Walter Benjamin

readings:
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"

optional:
Bill Nichols, "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems"

Attachment	Size
Walter_Benjamin_Art_in_Age_Mechanical_Reproduction.pdf	1.77 MB

Sep 20 - The Long Tail

NEW ECONOMIES > THE LONG TAIL

readings:
Chris Anderson, "The Long Tail" - Chapters 2 & 3 [pdf]

Lee Gomes rebuttal to Chris Anderson [pdf]

optional:
Chris Anderson responds to Lee Gomes [read link]

Attachment	Size
Chris_Anderson_Long_Tail_Ch2.pdf	750.25 KB
Chris_Anderson_Long_Tail_Ch3.pdf	574.07 KB
Lee_Gomes_Long_Tail.pdf	133.87 KB

Sep 25 - Open-Source

NEW ECONOMIES > OPEN-SOURCE / GIFT ECONOMIES

due:
Research Proposal
(each member of your peer review team receives a copy)

readings:
Pekka Himanen, "The Academy and the Monastery" [PDF]

Malcolm Gladwell, "The Science of the Sleeper" [PDF]

optional:
Eric Raymond
The Cathedral and the Bazaar [link]

Nikolai Bezroukov critiques Eric Raymond
Open Source Software Development [link]

Eric Raymond responds to Nikolai Bezroukov
A Response to Nikolai Bezroukov [link]

links:
Open Source
Open Cola
The Halloween Documents
Free speech, not free beer
Open Source DNA
Human Genome Project
MIT Open Course Ware

Attachment	Size
Malcolm_Gladwell_The_Science_of_the_Sleeper.pdf	248.31 KB
Pekka_Himanen_The_Hacker_Ethic_Ch4.pdf	1.57 MB

Sep 27 - Research Methods

RESEARCH METHODS

due:
Research Proposal 1st Draft
(1 peer review form for each member of your peer review team)

in class:
Peer Review Session

Discuss research methods.

Oct 02 - NO CLASSES - Yom Kippur

NO CLASSES - Yom Kippur

Oct 04 - Politics

POLITICS
DeanSpace, MoveOn.org, Blogosphere, Meetups vs. The Daily Me

due:
Research Proposal Final Draft
(turn in 1st draft, peer review forms & final draft)

readings:
"The Daily Me" from Republic.com by Cass Sunstein

"How the Internet invented Howard Dean" from Wired Magazine by Gary Wolf

"The New Road to the White House" from Wired Magazine by Lawrence Lessig

optional:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/labour/
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/
http://www.wired.com/news/ebiz/0,1272,66589,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4790005.stm http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14382721/site/newsweek/

Attachment	Size
Cass_Sunstein_Republic_com_Ch1.pdf	187.26 KB
Gary_Wolf_How_the_Internet_Invented_Howard_Dean.pdf	124.52 KB
Lawrence_Lessig_The_New_Road_to_the_White_House.pdf	209.84 KB

Oct 09 - NO CLASSES

NO CLASSES - Columbus Day

Oct 10 - Identity > Online

IDENTITY > ONLINE

note: Monday classes are on Tuesday this week

readings:

Sherry Turkle, "Who Am We?" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.01/turkle.html

Allucqu√®re Rosanne Stone, "Will the Real Body Please Stand Up?" http://molodiez.org/net/real_body2.html

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Sherry_Turkle_Who_Am_We.pdf	182.5 KB
Sandy_Stone_Will_the_Real_Body_Please_Stand_Up.pdf	301.15 KB

Oct 11 - Identity > Politics

IDENTITY > POLITICS

readings:

Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/nakamura.html

Coco Fusco, "At Your Service" http://www.dancingimage.com/dev/9151/htdocs/Fusco.html

Oct 16 - Identity > Cyborg

IDENTITY > CYBORG

readings:
Donna Harraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century"

A Cyborg Manifesto (comic)

optional:
Hari Kunzru, "You Are Cyborg"

Attachment	Size
Donna_Haraway_A_Cyborg_Manifesto.pdf	215.33 KB

Oct 18 - Participatory Media

PARTICIPATORY MEDIA
weblog, wiki, social networking, myspace, facebook

due:
Literature Review 1st Draft
(deliver 1 copy to each member of your peer review team)

readings:
Stacy Schiff, "Know it All:Can Wikipedia conquer expertise?"

Attachment	Size
Stacy_Schiff_Wikipedia.pdf	120.47 KB

Oct 23 - Interview Methods

INTERVIEW METHODS

due:
Literature Review Peer Review
(deliver 1 peer review to each member of your peer review team)

in class:
Peer Review Session

Interview Methods

readings:

Oct 25 - Smart Mobs

MOBILE and UBIQUITOUS MEDIA

readings:
Howard Reinghold, Smart Mobs - Chapter 7: The Power of the Mobile Many

Adam Greenfield, Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing - Introduction

links:
Howard Reinghold's website
Smart Mobs blog
Smart Mobs definition
Adam Greenfield's blog
Ubiquitous computing definition
Lovegetty - wireless matchmaking service
Dodgeball - wireless social networking
Upoc - SMS based social networking service
Jabberwocky - familiar strangers
Showdown in Seattle
TXTmob
TXTmob - videos
SMS definition
Flash Mob disco video
Flash Mob advertisement
Flash Mob Pillow Fight
Improv Everywhere
Nabaztag

Attachment	Size
Howard_Rheingold_Smart_Mobs_Ch7.pdf	1.8 MB
Adam_Greenfield_Everyware_Intro.pdf	58.13 KB

Oct 30 - GeoSpatial Mashups

GEOSPATIAL DATA VISUALIZATION
mashups, google maps

due:
Literature Review - 1st draft, peer review forms, final draft

readings:
no readings... instead spend many hours looking at all of these websites:

Visitors' Profile by Hans Haacke
Milwaukee Art Centre, June 19 through August 8, 1971

Migration by Lisa Jevbratt
Web Visualization

Listening Post by Jon Rubin

Carnivore

Agonistics: A Language Game by Warren Sack

Conversation Map by Warren Sack

Swipe by Beatriz da Costa, Brooke Singer, Jamie Schulte

Babel by Simon Biggs

Internet Mapping Project by Martin Dodge (2000)

The Giver of Names by David Rokeby (1991)

All My Life For Sale

Valence by Ben Fry

Anemone by Ben Fry

Zip decode by Ben Fry

Nov 01 - IP > Owning

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY > OWNING

lecture notes:
Sing it, Swing it.

readings:
Kembrew McLeod, Freedom of Expression, Ch 1-3 [PDF]
(careful - don't print the whole book!!)

download the book here
Kembrew McLeod's website

Nov 06 - IP > Sharing

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY > SHARING

Copyleft

readings:

Courtney Love, "Courtney Love does the math."

John Snyder and Ben Snyder, "Embrace file-sharing, or die."
read it here

Lawrence Lessig, "Why Wilco is the Future of Music"
read it here

Lawrence Lessig, "Some Like It Hot"
read it here

Attachment	Size
Courtney_Love_does_the_math.pdf	196.6 KB

Nov 08 - Surveillance > Visual

SURVEILLANCE > VISUAL

lecture notes:
Visibility is a trap.

readings:

Michel Foucault, "Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison", Panopticism

Attachment	Size
Michel_Foucault_Discipline_and_Punish_Ch3.pdf	1.87 MB

Nov 13 - Surveillance > Data

SURVEILLANCE > DATA

readings:

Christian Parenti, The Soft Cage Ch 6, Ch 10

optional:

Gilles Deleuze, "Postscript on the Societies of Control"

Attachment	Size
Christian_Parenti_Soft_Cage_Ch6.pdf	1.02 MB
Christian_Parenti_Soft_Cage_Ch10.pdf	1.4 MB

Nov 15 - Individual Meetings

INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS

due:
Interview 1st Draft
(deliver 1 copy to each member of your peer review team)

Nov 20 - Individual Meetings

INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS

due:
Interview Peer Review
(deliver 1 peer review to each member of your peer review team)

in class:
Peer review session

Nov 22 - NO CLASSES

NO CLASSES - Thanksgiving

Nov 27 - Tactical Media

TACTICAL MEDIA AND RESISTANCE

due:
Interview (1st draft, peer review forms, final copy)

lecture notes:
Tactical Media

readings:
"Contestational Robotics" by Critical Art Ensemble & The Institute for Applied Autonomy
http://www.appliedautonomy.com/objectors.html

"On Electronic Civil Disobedience" by Stefan Wray
http://cristine.org/borders/Wray_Essay.html

Nov 29 - Hacking

HACKING

lecture notes:
Hackers and Crackers and Slackers

readings:

"Slacker Luddites" from Ars Electronica 95 by Critical Art Ensemble

"Pranks" from Media Virus by Douglas Rushkoff

"Possibility" by Alex Galloway
http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/gallowaytext.html

Attachment	Size
Critical_Art_Ensemble_Slacker_Luddites.pdf	129.48 KB

Dec 04 - Gaming

GAMES

NO READINGS

Dec 06 - Machinima

MACHINIMA

NO READINGS

links:
& Sciences" target="_blank">Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences
The Machinima Film Festival
Machinima FAQ
Machinima.com - huge repository of Machinima
Diary of a Camper - considered the 1st piece of machinima
Rooster Teeth Productions - makers of "Red vs. Blue" and "Strangerhood"

Dec 11 - Final Presentations

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Kate Regan
Christie Alexander
Lauren Pallaise
Shelly Tseng
Lexie Smyth
Joy Shapiro

Dec 13 - Final Presentations

due:
Final Papers

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Brynn Komro
Ruthanna Katz
Ashley Kirwan
Jill Marino
Meghan Doran
Sara DiBona
Lauren Shakra

Dec 18 - Final Presentations

FINAL PRESENTATIONS

Kelly Meehan
George Bergamo
Robyn Jemal
Joseph Mattarelliano
Robert Camacho
Stephanie Garbarino
Jennifer Javier