Texts to buy: You are only required to buy one book for this course.

Manovich, Lev
The Language of New Media
Boston: MIT Press, 2002
ISBN: 0-26-263255-1

Other course texts: We will also be viewing films, games, and reading handouts and texts on the web.

See also: Our additional resource links.

OASIS handouts

• Barthes, Roland. "The Photographic Message." Image/Music/Text. Trans Stephen Heath. New York: Hill and Wang, 1978.
• de Certeau, Michel. "Making Do: Uses and Tactics." The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
• - - -. "Walking in the City." The Practice of Everyday Life. Trans Steven Rendall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984.
• McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message." Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994.
• Monmonier, Mark. "Blunders That Mislead." How to Lie with Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Web texts

• Adbusters.org
• The Doll Games
• Donald Norman

Films & Television

• Blade Runner (1982)
• La Jeteé (1962)
• Man With a Movie Camera (1929)
• Memento (2000)
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Yes Men (2004)
• Starship Troopers (1997)

Video games

• Myst
• Doom
• Urban Dead