LEC # | READINGS AND MEDIA | KEY DATES |
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1 |
Welcome, syllabus review, getting to know you games.
No readings assigned. |
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2 |
Graff, Gerald, and Cathy Birkenstein. “Entering Class Discussions” and “Reading for the Conversation.” In They Say / I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. ISBN: 9780393935844. McLuhan, Marshall. “The Medium is The Message.” In Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. MIT Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780262631594. |
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3 | Ong, Walter. “The Orality of Language.” In Orality and Literacy. Routledge, 2012. ISBN: 9780415538381. [Preview with Google Books] | |
4 | Sontag, Susan. “In Plato’s Cave.” In On Photography. Penguin Books, 2010. ISBN: 9780141035789. | “24 Hours” notes due |
5 | Kim Vaeth lectures on writing. Bring a copy of your “24 Hours” notes to class. | |
6 | Solnit, Rebecca. “The Annihilation of Time and Space.” In River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West. Penguin, 2004. ISBN: 9780142004104. [Preview with Google Books] | |
7 | Chatman, Seymour. “What Novels Can Do That Films Can’t (And Vice Versa).” In Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument. Michael Boylan. Westview Press, 2009. ISBN: 9780813344522. | |
8 | Dyer, Richard. “The Light of the World.” In White. Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415095372. [Preview with Google Books] | |
9 | No new readings assigned. | “24 Hours” paper due |
10 |
McKee, Alan. “What Is Textual Analysis?” Chapter 1 in Textual Analysis: A Beginner’s Guide. SAGE Publications Limited, 2003. ISBN: 9780761949930. [Preview with Google Books] Fiske, John. “The Codes of Television.” In The John Fiske Collection: Television Culture. Routledge, 2010. ISBN: 9780415596473. [Preview with Google Books] MediaRead these readings before you view Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee. Color, 120 min. 1989. |
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11 | Adorno, Theodor, and Max Horkheimer. “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception.” In Dialectic of Enlightenment. Stanford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780804736336. [Preview with Google Books] | |
12 | Barthes, Roland. “The World of Wrestling.” In Mythologies. RHUK, 2009. ISBN: 9780099529750. | |
13 | Geertz, Clifford. “Thick Description: Towards an Interpretive Theory of Culture.” In The Interpretation of Cultures. Basic Books, 1977. ISBN: 9780465097197. | Media Analysis paper due |
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McKee, Alan. “How Do I Know What’s a Likely Interpretation?” Chapter 4 in Textual Analysis: A Beginner’s Guide. Sage Publications Limited, 2003. ISBN: 9780761949930. [Preview with Google Books] Radway, Janice. “The Readers and Their Romances.” In Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. The University of North Carolina Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780807843499. Interviewing workshop. |
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15 |
Revision workshop with Kim Vaeth.“Media Analysis 1.0” papers returned.
No new readings assigned. |
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16 | McLaughlin, Thomas. “Pedagogy and Vernacular Theory.” In Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular. University of Wisconsin Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780299151744. [Preview with Google Books] | |
17 | Hall, Stuart. Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse. University of B’ham., Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, 1973. ISBN: 9780704404571. | |
18 |
Juul, Jesper. “The Classic Model of Games.” In Half-Real: Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. MIT Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780262516518. Fernandez-Vara, Clara. “Preparing for the Analysis.” In Introduction to Game Analysis. Routledge, 2014. ISBN: 9780415703277. |
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19 |
MediaWatch and discuss La Jetée. Directed by Chris Marker. Black & White, 28 min. 1962. |
Media Analysis paper revision due Interview transcripts due |
20 | Visit the Trope Tank, Nick Montfort’s lab | |
21 | Jenkins, Henry, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green. “Where Web 2.0 Went Wrong.” In Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked. NYU Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780814743508. [Preview with Google Books] | |
22 | Gitelman, Lisa. “Media, Materiality, and the Measure of the Digital; or, the Case of Sheet Music and the Problem of Piano Rolls.” In Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture. Edited by Lauren Rabinovitz and Abraham Geil. Duke University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780822332411. [Preview with Google Books] | |
23 | Jenkins, Henry. “Introduction: Worship at the Altar of Convergence.” In Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. NYU Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780814742952. [Preview with Google Books] | |
24 | No new readings assigned. | Media Research Paper presentations |
25 | No new readings assigned. | Media Research Paper presentations (cont.) |
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Wrap up. Discuss class improvements. Turkle, Sherry. “Always On.” In Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. Basic Books, 2012. ISBN: 9780465031467. Shirky, Clay. “Does The Internet Make You Smarter?” The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2010. |
Media Research Paper due |
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