After considering all the feedback, I have come up with the following rough outline. Several people suggested some more “mainstream texts” (Weinberger). Initially I was going to keep this class almost all theory, but rethought this a bit. Weinberger, Shirky, Rheingold, offer accessible ways to approach the material. Plus, I like the idea of bookending the class with Rheingold and Shirky, for despite their similarities the five years that separate their publication actually frame the class fairly well, with Rheingold serving as in introduction/hook to the issues. I am leaning more towards keeping Ong now, as it can serve as the introductory theoretical text, allowing me to avoid some general overview and using McLuhan. I have left off Kittler and Stiegler as while I think they are important (especially Stiegler) I also see them as especially challenging, and thought students might be better served if I provided an exegesis on the material (again especially Stiegler) rather than assigning complete texts. Still not decided on Eisenstein or Johns, and am contemplating adding in a literary text (film or novel) maybe something like Snow Crash. I like to leave the last week empty, to modify depending on how the class develops.

• Week One-August 21
• Class Introduction
• Week Two-August 28
• Rheingold
• Week Three-September 4
• Ong
• Week Four-September 11
• Print Culture (probably Eisenstein, maybe Johns)
• Week Five-September 18
• Derrida
• Week Six-September 25
• Heidegger
• Week Seven-October 2
• Gunkel, Thinking Otherwise
• Week Eight-October 9
• Castellas, The Networked Society
• Week Nine-October 16
• Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous
• Week Ten-October 23
• Walker, Blogging
• Week Eleven-October 30
• Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond
• Week Twelve-November 6
• Galloway & Thacker, Exploit
• Week Thirteen-November 13
• Hayles, My Mother was a Computer
• Week Fourteen-November 20
• Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
• Week Fifteen-December 4