| SES # | Topics | READINGS and FILMS |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | Introduction |  Doctorow, Cory. Eastern Standard Tribe. New York, NY: Tor, 2004, pp. 108-115. ISBN: 0765307596. |
| L2 | Media Convergence | Jenkins, Henry. Towards Media Convergence. Chapter 1. (Forthcoming Book) |
| R1 | Media Convergence - What is Jenkins' Argument? What are Counter Examples? | |
| Lab 1 | The Society of Spectacle Screening | Debord, Guy. La Société du spectacle, 1973. |
| L3 | Origins of Media and Media Theory | Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations. New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1968, pp. 217-251. Debord, Guy-Ernest. Society of the Spectacle. Detroit, MI: Black and Red, 1983, parts 1-42. ISBN: 0934868077. |
| R2 | Reading Response Discussion | |
| Lab 2 | Blade Runner Screening | Scott, Ridley. Blade Runner, 1982. |
| L4 | Library Research What is Authoritative Information in the Age of the Network? | |
| L5 | Game Mod (Guest Lecture by Paul Marino) | |
| L6 | Media is the Message / Simulacra and Simulation | Baudrillard, Jean. Simulacra and Simulation. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1994. ISBN: 0472065211. Herbert Marshall McLuhan Wikipedia contributors. "Simulacra and Simulation." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. |
| R3 | Discussion of Media Projects and Modes of Working | |
| R4 | Working Groups | |
| Lab 3 | Battle of Algiers Screening | Pontecorvo, Gillo. La Battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers), 1965. |
| L7 | Theory of Media: Terrorism as Media Tool | Kittler, Friedrich. "History of Communications Media." Web site compiled by Peter Krapp, 2000. |
| R5 | History of Media: Kittler | |
| Lab 4 | eXistenZ Screening | Cronenberg, David. eXistenZ, 1999. |
| L8 | Media Lab Field Trip | Shaviro, Steven. Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 0816643636. |
| R6 | Media Acts | |
| Lab 5 | Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y Screening | Grimonprez, Johan. Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y, 1998. |
| L9 | Media and Property: Creative Commons Guest Lecture by Hal Abelson | Assigned Reading Lessig, Lawrence. "The People Own Ideas!" Technology Review 108, no. 6 (June 2005): 46-63. Epstein, Richard. "The Creators Own Ideas." Technology Review 108, no. 6 (June 2005): 56-60. Suggested Reading Creative Commons Wark, McKenzie. "Hacker Manifesto [version 4.0]." Subsol. |
| R7 | Politics of Media: Discussion of Creative Commons License | |
| Lab 6 | Sonic Outlaws Screening | Baldwin, Craig. Sonic Outlaws, 1995. |
| L10 | Audio Media: History of Mechanical Audio Guest Lectur by Lisa Gitelman | Gitelman, Lisa. "How Users Define New Media: A History of the Amusement Phonograph." In Rethinking Media Change. Edited by David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004, pp. 61-79. ISBN: 0262701073. |
| R8 | Independent Work Group Meetings | |
| L11 | Television's Past, the Actualization of Mass Media | Uricchio, William. "The Trouble with Television." Screening The Past, no. 4 (1998). (First Release) Hirschberg, Lynn. "Giving Them What They Want." New York Times Magazine, September 4, 2005, 29-35, 50, and 54-55. McHugh, Josh. "The Super Network: Why Yahoo! Will be the center of the million-channel universe." Wired Issue 13.09 (September 2005): 107-111. (Wired article on the development in television technology and view habits in the post-wired age. HDTV, IPTV, on-demand, etc.) Siklos, Richard. "First for Free, Then for Pay At 2 Networks." The New York Times, November 8, 2005. (NYT's business section on the November, 2005 announcement of on-demand services by CBS & NBC.) Gray, Herman. "The Politics of Representation in Network Television." In Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for "Blackness." Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1995, pp. 70-92. ISBN: 0816622507.Suggested Reading McCarthy, Anna. "Shaping Public and Private Space with TV Screens." In Ambient Television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 115-153. ISBN: 0822326922. Schwartz, Evan. "Fields of Vision." In The Last Lone Inventor. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2002, pp. 9-27. ISBN: 0066210690. |
| R9 | The Future of Television Discussion Led by Tom Levenson. | |
| Lab 7 | Eyes on the Prize Screening | Hampton, Henry. Eyes on the Prize, 1987. (Television images of broadcast of civil rights movement.) |
| L12 | Postmedia Production: Electronic Music Culture / Digital Radio Student Podcast Demo | Suggested Reading Russolo, Luigi. "The Art of Noises, Futurist Manifesto." In Audio Culture. Edited by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner. New York, NY: Continuum, 2004. ISBN: 0826416144. Video Selections to be Screened in Class Cunningham, Chris. Windowlicker, 1999. ———. Björk: All is full of Love, Music video. Williams, Hype. Belly, 1998. (Excerpt) Gondry, Michel. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004. |
| L13 | Final Project: Class Presentations |
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