materials
clips
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Handouts
All course handouts are in Adobe PDF format unless otherwise specified. To get a free copy of the latest Adobe Reader, go to the Adobe site. Handout titles appear in reverse chronological order, with recent materials at the top of the list.
in-class presentations
All in-class presentations are web versions of PowerPoint presentations and can thus be read on any browser. Presentation titles appear in reverse chronological order, with recent materials at the top of the list.
- Final Project Proposals: Common Issues and Questions
- Sassen: Digital Networks and the State (by Nick Heinbaugh, Jeff Leach and Jon Springer)
- Jordan: Techopower and Its Cyberfutures (by Steve Bateman and Nathan Plesnicher)
- Kahn and Kellner: Technopolitics and Oppositional Media (by Rona Lee and Kaitlin Lindquist)
- Virtual Community: Connecting the Readings
- Bakardjieva: Virtual Togetherness (by Candice Garza, Azmera Melashu and
Tony Patton)
- Robins: Against Virtual Community (by Kei Mori, Reina Noyes, and JD Stutz)
- Willson: Community in the Abstract (by Sara Gowey and Eunji Lee)
- Stone: Will the Real Body Please Stand Up? (by Peter Livingston, Rebecca Livingston, and Leticia Rivera)
- Rehak: Mapping the Bit Girl (by Jessy King and Peter Wakeman)
- Virtual Identity: Critiquing the Critics
- Curtain: Promiscuous Fictions (by Maureen Fonken and Michelle Yi)
- Nakamura: Race in/for Cyberspace (by Nate Carlin and Laura Labissoniere)
- Cheung: Identity Construction and Self-Presentation (by Shamia Buksh, Shuk Kam, and Kirsten Laulainen)
- Haraway: A Cyborg Manifesto
- Held: Gene(sis): Contemporary Art Explores Human Genomics (by Rachel Chang, Chris Goiney, and Jenny Passero)
- Ayers: Serene and Happy and Distant, An Interview with Orlan (by Tyler Gianesini and Dana Hunter)
- Manovich: From DV Realism to a Universal Recording Machine (by Mitch Sontra and Eddie Tuohy)
- Lupton: The Embodied Computer/User
- Hayles: Computing the Human
- Turkle: Cyborg Babies and Cy-Dough Plasm (by Jessica Cantu and Tracey Taylor)
- Looking at the Cyborg in Film
- McQuire and Neuromancer
- Neuromancer: Literature as Theory