| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| Lab 2 |
Blade Runner Screening |
Scott, Ridley. Blade Runner, 1982. |
| L4 |
Library Research
What is Authoritative Information in the Age of the Network? |
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| L5 |
Game Mod (Guest Lecture by Paul Marino) |
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| 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 |
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| R4 |
Working Groups |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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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