Democracy, Governance, and the Digital Network

After spring break we will turn to discussing games and narrative. For Tues. March 24th read “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” by Henry Jenkins & “Towards Computer Game Studies” by Markku Eselinen. Both are in First Person. (See you after the break.)

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Thursday we will continue our discussion of Inanimate Alice. So, if you half already finished all four sections, no worries just come to class, if not read/veiw all four sections by Thursday’s class.

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Tuesday we will finish up with the groups discussing/presenting on the stories from We Tell Stories and begin looking at Inanimate Alice. You need to read/view Episodes 1-4, this will take roughly an hour to do (each episode is progressively longer), so make sure you plan enough time for every episode. Second, each group should [...]

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We will be talking about We Tell Stories and 217 Babel Street on Thursday. You do not need to read all of the stories, instead you need to read only the one you were assigned in class. Spend time reading, and rereading whichever work you were assigned, as you along with the 2-3 others who [...]

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For Tuesday you should read Implementation. You might want to start by reading the project description and then reading the Installments (linked to from the home page). Also you should look at some of the photos by location as they will give you a sense of how this story unfolds in physical space. Second, take [...]

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Thursday we will be talking about collaboratively authored works. First up is A Million Penguins a wiki novel. You should begin by reading the About page to give you a sense of the project, and then read Section 1 (you only need to read Section 1 for class—the entire thing would require to much time). [...]

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On Tuesday we will be looking at two examples of using blogs to tell text based stories. First look at FIRSTWORLD and read the first five entries (i.e. read up to and including 12/08/08). You should also read the very brief “What is a Wovel.” Next take a look at Plan B, read the first [...]

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Your homework for Thursday is to brainstorm how you would remix Patchwork Girl as you will have class time to work on this project. This will be a group project (i.e. you will work in groups of 3-4) to produce this remix. The object is to update the text, thing about what can be done [...]

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For Tuesday read Shelly Jackson’s Patchwork Girl. Because it is not a work which has page numbers or a fixed narrative time I cannot tell you how far to read. So, instead spend at least two hours reading it, this should give you a range of experiences with the text as well as provide you [...]

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Since the projects took all of today (something I do not mind, quite to the contrary I thought they were enjoyable and productive) we will start with “Remediation” on Thursday. You can get it off eReserves. As it is a difficult article and I will want to refer to specific passages in class, please print [...]

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