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Week 1 Approaches to NMC

Jan. 7 Intro/Overview

Jan. 9 Approaches to NMC: Making Sense out of Hyper/Texts

Guest Speaker: Prof. David Levy, Information School

Read:

“Fixed or Fluid: Document Stability and New Media,” David Levy

“What are Documents?,” David Levy

(These and the Gurak chapter will be distributed in class 1/7)

Week 2

Jan. 14 Approaches to NMC: Rhetorical Analysis of Digital Media Objects

Guest Speaker: Barbara Warnick

Read:

"Reproduced and Emergent Genres of Communication on the World Wide Web," Kevin Crowston and Marie Williams, The Information Society, Vol 16, no. 3, in UW E-Journal collection

“Cyberliteracy: Toward a New Internet Consciousness,” Laura Gurak

Jan. 16 Approaches to NMC: Critiquing Interfaces

and Copyright & Digital Media

Guest Speaker: Jeff Curtis

Read:

"Dance and Technology: A Pas de Deux for Post-humans," Kent De Spain, Dance Research Journal, 32(1), Summer 2000, pp. 2-17. (online reserves at Odegaard)

“Information on Copyright & Intellectual Property,” Elizabeth Kirk, http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/copyright/index.html

Week 3 Critical Literacy & the Web

Jan. 21 No class

Jan. 23 Assessing Content

In-class quiz on Approaches to NMC due (3-4 short answer questions)

Read:

Internet Detective Tutorial Sections: Welcome-Criteria:Content

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

“Introduction” to Critical Literacy in a Digital Era, by Barbara Warnick (online reserves)

Week 4

Jan. 28 Assessing Form & Process

Read:

Internet Detective Tutorial Sections: Criteria:Form-End

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/desire/internet-detective.html

“Escaping the Digital Dark Age,” Stewart Brand

View in class: “Into the Future: On the Preservation of Knowledge in the Electronic Age”, by Terry Sanders

Jan. 30 Introduction to Manovich

In-class quiz on Internet Detective

Read: Introduction & Ch. 1 “What is New Media?” LNM

Week 5 The Language of New Media

Feb. 4 The Interface

Read: Ch. 2, pp. 62-87, LNM

Demo: Basic HTML & Dreamweaver, Paul Ford

Feb. 6 Read: Ch. 2, pp. 88-115, LNM

Demo: Basic Photoshop, Paul Ford

Week 6 The Operations

Feb. 11 Read: Ch. 3, pp. 116-160, LNM

View in class: excerpts from “Man with a Camera”

Feb. 13 Read: Ch. 3, pp. 161-175, LNM

Week 7 The Illusions & Interactivity

Feb. 18 No Class

Feb. 20 Read: Ch. 4 pp. 176-205, LNM

“On-Line Interaction and Why Candidates Avoid It,” Jennifer Stromer-Galley, published in Journal of Communication, text available at http://www.asc.upenn.edu/usr/jstromer/interact.html

Demo: More on Dreamweaver/Photoshop; Intro to Flash, Paul Ford

Week 8 The Forms

Feb. 25 Read: Ch. 5, pp. 212-243

Feb. 27 Read: Ch. 5, pp. 244-285

Demo: VR/Ramona

Week 9

March 4 KF OUT: 5:30-6:30 Q&A session with Paul Ford on Web applications

March 6 Presentations (Class from 5:30-8:20pm)

Week 10

March 11 Review of Presentations; Wrap Up

March 18 Final Projects due by noon, Monday of finals week