Unless otherwise noted, readings can be found in the “Course Readings” folder on our class site at eCampus
Week 1: Jan. 10, 12: Course Introduction
- What is multimedia? What is writing?
- Readings
- Jenkins, Convergence Culture, Introduction
Week 2: Jan. 17, 19: How writing changes the way we think
- Twitter assignment due
- Readings
- Ong, Orality and Literacy, chs. 3–4
- Johnson, “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live”
- Orenstein, “I Tweet Therefore I Am”
Week 3: Jan. 24, 26: Style
- Lanham, The Economics of Attention, ch. 1 (on eCampus as a pdf) & ch.3: “What’s Next for Text?” (online here; click on the Table of Contents link then read through all of the resulting pages; also, be sure you have Quicktime installed in your browser so you can access all of the video content)
- Tufte, Visual Explanations, ch. 7, “Visual Confections”
Week 4: Jan. 31, Feb. 2: Writing place
- Choose collection topic
- Readings
- Morville, Ambient Findability, chs. 2 & 4
- Parry, Ubiquitous Surveillance, Introduction and one chapter of your choosing
Week 5: Feb. 7, 9: Who gets to write online?
- Readings
- Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis, Blown to Bits, chs. 7–8
Week 6: Feb. 14, 16: Narrative and fiction
- Peer review for first submission of multi-modal text due on Tuesday: be able to access copy in class
- First submission of multi-modal text due before the start of class on Thursday: email copy of text or link to it to me before the start of class
- Readings
- Borges, “Garden of Forking Paths” (pdf) and “The Library of Babel”
Week 7: Feb. 21, 23: Remix
- Readings
- Lessig, Remix, chs 1, 4
- RIP: A Remix Manifesto (available on Hulu+ or as a pay-what-you-want download)
- Burroughs, “The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin”
- Blog remix assignment
Week 8: Feb. 28, Mar. 1
- Multimedia Workshop: Introduction to tools for creating audio and video projects
- Peer review for second submission of multi-modal text due on Tuesday
- Second submission of multi-modal text due before the start of class on Thursday
Week 9: Mar. 6, 8: Authorship and code
- Readings
- Rushkoff, Program or Be Programmed, Introduction and chs. 3–4 & 10
Week 10: Mar. 13, 15: Video Games
- Pitch meeting for multimedia projects
- Readings
- Ebert, “Video games can never be art”
- Rheingold, “Learning, Playing, Designing: Video Games in School” (read article and watch video)
- McGonigal, “Gaming Can Make a Better World” (video)
- Bogost, “Cow Clicker: The Making of Obsession”
- Sign up for and play Cow Clicker on Facebook
Week 11: Mar. 20, 22: Electronic Books
- Readings
- Carmody, “10 Reading Revolutions Before E-Books”
- Waters, “Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution”
- Eisenberg, “Making Science Leap From the Page”
- “Infographic: Digital Textbooks and the Modern Classroom”
- Choose publication venue for collection
- Group work
Mar. 27, 29: Spring recess: no class
Week 12: Apr. 3, 5
- Peer review for first submission of multimedia project due on Tuesday
- Group work
Week 13: Apr. 10, 12
- First submission of for multimedia project due before start of class on Tuesday
- Group work/assemble text of collection
Week 14: Apr. 17, 19
- Group work/assemble text of collection
- Peer review for second submission of multimedia project due on Thursday
Week 15: Apr. 24, 26
- Second submission of for multimedia project due before start of class on Tuesday
- Finalize collection