Course Calendar
Monday Jan 26
› introduction to the course
› discussion: what is new media scholarship?
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/new.media.scholarship
› in the lab: tutorial 1: "Making a Simple Website"
Monday February 2
› read for today: Ellen Lupton Thinking with Type (parts 1 and 2)
› check out Lupton's companion webite for the book
› see examples at delicious.com/metaspencer/digital.literacy.autobiography
› due today: Project 1: Digital Literacy Page
› in the lab: tutorial 2: "Working With Images and Links"
Monday February 9
› read for today: Ellen Lupton Thinking with Type (finish the book)
› read for today: Craig Dworkin Reading the Illegible (first half)
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/situationists
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/type
› open lab session
Monday February 16
› read for today: Craig Dworkin Reading the Illegible (finish the book)
› peruse for today: Flickr images tagged "illegible"
› due today: Project 2: Design Your Own Typeface Project
› in the lab: tutorial 3: "Moving Images"
Monday February 23
› read for today: Mark Stephen Meadows I, Avatar (first half)
› download software (if possible) and create an avatar at secondlife.com
› download software (if possible) and create an avatar at worldofwarcraft.com
› peruse for today: Flickr images tagged "second life"
› due today: Project 3: Moving Image Project
› in the lab: tutorial 4: "Styles"
Monday March 2
› read for today: Mark Stephen Meadows I, Avatar (finish book)
› read for today: Interview with Lisa Nakamura
› read for today: Emily Apter on The Avatar Drive
› peruse pictures of avatars on Flickr
› open lab session
Monday March 9
› read for today: ch. 1-4 of Fred Turner From Counterculture to Cyberculture
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/rhet-of-social-engagement
› due today: Project 4: Action Now! Project
› in the lab: tutorial 5: "Working With Sound"
Monday March 16
› read for today: ch. 5-8 of Fred Turner From Counterculture to Cyberculture
› read for today: Jody Shipka's "Sound engineering: Toward a theory of multimodal soundness"
› read for today: Heidi McKee's "Sound matters: Notes toward the analysis and design of sound in multimodal webtexts"
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/sound
› due today: Project 5: Redesign Project
› open lab session
Monday March 23
CLASS DOES NOT MEET; SPRING BREAK
Monday March 30
› read for today: Ian Bogost Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
› read for today: N. Katherine Hayles "The Materiality of Informatics"
› read for today: Sharon Daniel and Karen O'Rourke "Mapping the Database"
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/artsy
› in the lab: tutorial 6: "Working With Divs"
Monday April 6
› read for today: Paul Budra on "The First-Person Shooter"
› read for today: 2 or 3 papers from The Daedalus Project
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/games
› explore for today: delicious.com/homepages
› study for today: Kim Stringfellow's online projects
› due today: Project 6: Game Project
› in the lab: tutorial 7: "Cascading Style Sheets"
Monday April 13
› read for today: articles by Tufte and Parker
› explore for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/powerpoint
› due today: Project 7: Presentation Software Project
› PowerPoint presentations and Desktop MCing today
Monday April 20
› read for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/photoshop
› discussion of final projects
› in the lab: tutorial 8: "iFrames and JavaScript"
Monday April 27
› read for today: delicious.com/metaspencer/strategic.simulations
› discussion of final projects
› open lab session
Monday May 4
Last Class Meeting
› discussion of final projects
› due today: Project 8: Simulation
Final Site Due Monday May 11