f&dm 20c | introduction to digital media

 

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reading schedule

all readings must be completed by the beginning of each week

[download a word version of the syllabus]

 

material foundations

week 1 | introduction & overview
R 23.09.04 | HCI
reading

Hewett et al., "Human-Computer Interaction" http://sigchi.org/cdg/cdg2.html

 

week 2 | hardware & software
T 28.09.04 | basic components
R 30.09.04 | information organization: architecture & authoring
reading

Nigel Chapman and Jenny Chapman, "Enabling Technologies" [e-res]

Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" [pdf]


Jennifer Niederst, chapters 8&9 of Web Design in a Nutshell [e-res]

 

week 3 | networked structures
T 05.10.04 | hypertext & narrative
R 07.10.04 | internet & web
reading

Mark Bernstein, Michael Joyce, and David Levine, "Contours of Constructive Hypertexts" [pdf]

Yael Kanarek, "World of Awe" http://www.worldofawe.com/index.html


Barry M. Leiner, Vinton G. Cerf, et al., "A Brief Hisory of the Internet" http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml


"A Brief History of the World Wide Web" http://www.w3.org/History.html


Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal" http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html


recommended: Theodor H. Nelson, "Xanalogical Structure, Needed Now More than Ever: Parallel Documents, Deep Links to Content, Deep Versioning, and Deep Re-Use" http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/ACM_HypertextTestbed/papers/60.html


recommended: Sergy Brin and Lawrence Page, "Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine" http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

 

technologies | societies | cultures

week 4 | actor-networks | *web analysis due*
T 12.10.04 | virtual enironments [muds, moos, habitats, palaces]
R 14.10.04 | social cyberspaces
reading

Loyd Blankenship, "The Cow Ate My Brain, or A Novice’s Guide to MOO Programing"
http://www.hayseed.net/MOO/mootutor1.txt


David Gibson et al., "Inferring Web Communities from Link Topologies" [pdf]


dana michele boyd, "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networking" [pdf]


Don Slater, "Social Relationships and Identity Online and Offline" [e-res]

recommended: Richard Rogers, "Operating Issue Networks on the Web" [pdf]

 

week 5 | community actions | *midterm*
T 19.10.04 | cyber-sovereignty
R 21.10.04 | midterm
reading

Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace" http://www.juliandibbell.com/texts/bungle.html


John Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" http://www.eff.org/~barlow/Declaration-Final.html

 

week 6 | identity issues
T 26.10.04 | AI
R 28.10.04 | racial profiles
reading

A.M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" http://www.abelard.org/turpap/turpap.htm


Lisa Nakamura, "Race in/for Cyberspace" http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/syllabi/readings/nakamura.html

 

political economies

week 7 | cyberpolitics
T 02.11.04 | cyborg bodies & social agents
R 04.11.04 | digital divides
reading

Chris Hables Gray, et al., "Cyborgology" [e-res]


Arjan Egges et al., "A Model for Personality and Emotion Simulation" [pdf]


Amanda Lenhart et al., "The Ever-Shifting Internet Population" [pdf]


recommended: Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto" [e-res]

 

week 8 | property claims | *actor-network analysis due*
T 09.11.04 | intellectual property & open source (or, from GNU to DRM)
R 11.11.04 | no class: Veteran’s day; no sections this week
reading

Richard Stallman, "Why Software Should Be Free" http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/shouldbefree.html


Florian Cramer, "Free Software as Collaborative Text" [pdf]


Renato Innella, "Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures" http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june01/iannella/06iannella.html [link fixed]


Electronic Privacy Information Center on DRM http://www.epic.org/privacy/drm/default.html

recommended: Christopher May, "Digital Rights Management and the Breakdown of Social Norms" http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue8_11/may/

 

week 9 | rendered worlds
T 16.11.04 | games
R 18.11.04 | animation & indexicality
reading

Henry Jenkins, "'Complete Freedom of Movement': Games as Gendered Playspaces" http://web.mit.edu/21fms/www/faculty/henry3/pub/complete.html


Mizuko Ito, "Technologies of Imagination: Media Mixes, Hypersociality, and Recombinant Cultural Form" [pdf]


Celia Pearce, "Towards a Game Theory of Game" [and response by Flanagan] [e-res]

 

week 10 | virtual week
T 23.11.04 | class cancelled
R 25.11.04 | no class: Thanksgiving
reading

Lev Manovich, "What Is Digital Cinema?" http://www.manovich.net/ [click on 'text' at top, then 'articles,' then scroll down; it's near the bottom of the article list]

 

week 11 | digital cinemas | *final paper due*
T 30.11.04 | independents
R 02.12.04 | industries
reading

Dogme 95 documents: faq, manifesto [including "vow of chastity"] http://www.dogme95.dk/menu/menuset.htm


Rob Koenen, "From MPEG-1 to MPEG-21: Creating an Interoperable Multimedia Structure" http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/from_mpeg-1_to_mpeg-21.htm


Independent Media Center faq http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/FrequentlyAskedQuestionEn#what

Ellen Wolff, “Oddworld’s ‘Real’ Reel World”
http://vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=57c5ed8a&atype=articles&id=2203&page=1

 

FINAL EXAM: W 08.12.04, 12:00-14:00 oakes 105