Key dates:
- Memory Archive due 4 Oct
- Tactical Appropriation due 25 Oct
- MyMap due 22 Nov
- Final Project Collaborative Project due 14 Dec
This course meets each Wednesday from 1:00 until 4:30pm. While we might not use the full alotted time every week, we will do so most of the time. Plan to be present for four hours each week. I start class on time, so be there right at 1:00—missing twenty minutes at the beginning will make the business of the course difficult to conduct.
- Week 1: 6 September
- In-class work
- Introduce syllabus
Short writing: what is new media?
Talk: arc of the course
Get to know one another
Discussion: what is new media?
Post on Forums
Screening: Man with a Movie Camera (start by 3:15pm) - Homework due this week
- None. YAY!
- Week 2: 13 September
- In-class work
- Discuss Man with a movie camera
Discuss McLuhan
LAB: Beginning HTML - how do web pages work? let's make one!
Screening: La Jetee - Homework due this week
- Email Brendan from your preferred email address
Reading: McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message" (OASIS handouts)
Post reading response in forums
Post to discussion forums - Week 3: 20 September
- In-class work
- Discuss La Jetee
Read and Discuss: Doll Games
Receive English Department web accounts
LAB: html 2
Discuss Barthes, Image activity
Get Memory Archive assignment - Homework due this week
- Reading: Barthes, "The Photographic Image" (OASIS handouts)
Post reading response in forums
Post to discussion forums - Week 4: 27 September
- In-class work
- Discuss Raymond, Open Source
LAB: HTML review, Images
Post ideas for Memory Archive
MYST exercise
Go to Body Maps exhibit - Homework due this week
- Read Raymond, Introduction & Cathedral and the Bazaar
Post responses to Raymond
Come with ideas, plan for Memory Archive - Week 5: 4 October
- In-class work
- Debrief Memory Archives
Discuss: memory and the web
Look at Yes Men Website
Screening: first half of Yes Men - Homework due this week
- Memory Archive Project due
Post to forums - Week 6: 11 October
- In-class work
- Discuss De Certeau
Screening: Yes Men (second half)
Tactics vs. Strategies
LAB: Image editing
Get Tactical Appropriation Assignment - Homework due this week
- Read De Certeau, "Making Do" (OASIS Handouts)
Post response to De Certeau in forums
Post in discussion forum - Week 7: 18 October
- In-class work
- Debate Free Culture and copyright
LAB: Why design?
Games: McDonalds, Darfur is Dying - Homework due this week
- Read sections of Lessig, Free Culture
Revisions of Memory Archive due
Post response to Lessig
Post in forums - Week 8: 25 October
- In-class work
- Appropriation debrief
Discussion of Collaboration and collaborative activity
Look at Project:Loop
Exercise: Memory Mapping on flickr - Homework due this week
- Tactical Appropriation due
Post in forums
CNFW extra credit due
YOU MUST HAVE THE HARMON BOOK FOR NEXT WEEK - Week 9: 1 November
- In-class work
- Discuss Harmon
Maps as media, "cognitive mapping"
LAB: Image maps
MySpace exercise - Homework due this week
- Read Harmon, You Are Here, pages 1-63
Post response to Harmon - Week 10: 8 November
- In-class work
- Discuss Harmon
MySpace exercise, "cognitive mapping"
Draw your own coginitive map of an element or idea
Get MyMap project. - Homework due this week
- Finish Harmon
Post response to Sontag and Harmon - Week 11: 15 November
- In-class work
- Discuss Monmonier
BodyMaps discussion: How do maps portray AIDS
Mini-lecture: Sontag on AIDS
How to wiki 1: getting started - Homework due this week
- Read Monmonier, post response to forums.
Work on MyMap project. - Week 12: 22 November
- In-class work
- NO CLASS THIS WEEK
- Homework due this week
- MyMap project due by 1pm
- Week 13: 29 November
- In-class work
- Debrief MyMap projects
Discuss de Certeau
Discuss goals for Project:Loop
Work session: assignments, leadership roles, etc/DD> - Homework due this week
- Read Project:Loop in its entirety
Read De Certeau, "Walking the City" (OASIS handouts)
Post response to De Certeau - Week 14: 6 December
- In-class work
- Discuss Lessig, creative Commons
Discuss/show progress on Project:Loop
New assignments/work time
Rough draft of final project
Course evaluations - Homework due this week
- Work on Project:Loop
- Week 15: 13 December
- In-class work
- Debrief Project:Loop
Write advice for next term - Homework due this week
- Final Project:Loop assignments due
