StoryTelling for New Media

Watch The Internet Has a Face and read “A Vision for Genuine Rich Media Blogging” Miles, int The Uses of Blogs.
Also remember to bring your proposals for your final project to class, along with cell phones for setting up Twitter.

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For Tuesday read “Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction” by Nakamura (course reader) and “Posting with Passion” Gregg in Uses of Blogs. After you complete the reading post to your respective blogs regarding these readings.

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For Thursday read “Paper or Me, You Know” by Derrida in Paper Machines and watch Prometeus (online video). (The Derrida article is only about 20 pages, please do not spend more than an hour reading it, but please give it an hour.) You should also post to your blog, in a similar fashion as you [...]

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The Britannica Blog (yes I read their blog, I find it amusing that luddites have blogs) has a post today about authorship and Raymond Carver. It seems there is a bit of a controversy over who actually wrote his earlier stories. Seems that people are rather invested in showing the “real” Raymond Carver, and making [...]

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For Tuesday you should read “Science as Open Source Process” and “Cold War Networks” by Kittler (course reader) as well as “Protocol vs. Institutionalization” by Galloway (also in the course reader). Finally you should watch Understanding Net Neutrality (short video).
After completing the reading you should post to your blog. For this post relate the readings [...]

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Read Foucault, “What is an Author” from your course packet. It is not long but is dense and will take longer than the pages indicate (not as hard as Derrida but in that ballpark). When you have finished reading write a post to your blog about the reading. Rather than try and connect what he [...]

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There will be no class on Thursday (Oct. 11), on Tuesday I will hand out a revised syllabus, and we can talk about scheduling a make-up class if needed.
For Tuesday read:
<free culture>” Lawrence Lessig, (online presentation)
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t its Copyright? Mark Helprin
Against Perpetual Copyright (Wiki Response to Helprin)
Pachbel Rant(short video)
You should also [...]

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You readings are short (should only take 30-45 minutes), and you do not need to post to your blog (unless of course you are behind in posts). Reminder midterms are do Monday 10:00 AM my office (ATEC 1.502).
The Long Tail” Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine
The Long Tail Blog, Chris Anderson

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For Thrusday read “The New Order of Order” & “The Work of Knowledge” David
Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous, (course reader) and watch
“Social Bookmarking in Plain English” The Common Craft Show (online video).
Post to your blog about the Weinberger entry. Do this in the same respect as your previous post about Keen. That is focus in on [...]

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