JOIN THE DIGI-CULT, BUT DON'T DRINK THE KOOL-AID!

M. Course Overview|Review syllabus and schedule

W. The Matrix (clips)|iProf, Bionic Arm|Assignment (with partner): Key Issues in Cyberspace

F. Discussion: Key Issues in Cyberspace

JACKING IN TO THE "CONSENSUAL HALLUCINATION"

M. MLK Day

W. Discussion, cont.: Key Issues in Cyberspace

F. Introduction to Cyberpunk|Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" (course packet)

M. Lewis Shiner's "Till Human Voices Wake Us" (course packet)

W. Greg Bear's "Blood Music" (course packet)|Response Paper Due: Cyberpunk

F. Stephenson's Snow Crash

M. Stephenson's Snow Crash|Response Paper Due: Stephenson|Assignment: essay #1: Cyberpunk (3-5pp)

W. Stephenson's Snow Crash

F. No regular class: Conferences on essay #1

VIRTUALLY MYSELF: exploring iDentity in the Digital Age

M. Due: Essay #1|Allucquere Rosanne Stone's "Will the Real Body Please Stand Up," Second Life crimes of passion news articles (course packet)

W. Anne Balsamo's Technologies of the Gendered Body ("Introduction" and "On the Cutting Edge"), Vivian Sobchack's "On Morphological Imagination" (course packet)

F. Paul Hurley's "On a series of queer becomings: selected Becomings-invertebrate 2003-2005"|

THE VISUAL RHETORICS OF VIRTUAL SPACES

M. David J. Leonard's "Performing Blackness," Keith and Mendi Obadike's "Blackness for Sale" (course packet)|Response Paper Due: iDentity

W. Sharif Mowlabocus's "Life Outside the Latex"|www.barebackjack.com

F. Response Paper Due: Visual Rhetorics|semiotic analysis: IBM v. Apple|Assignment: essay #2: iDentity and/or semiotic analysis of website(s)(3-5pp)

MARDI GRAS BREAK

M. Workshop: essay #2 (meet in Jackson 305)

W. No regular class: Conferences on essay #2

F. Due: Essay #2

EVERYWARE YOU GO...

M. Greenfield's Everyware, Introduction, sections 1 and 2

W. Greenfield's Everyware, sections 3 and 4

F. Greenfield's Everyware, sections 5 and 6

M. Greenfield's Everyware, section 7 and Conclusion|Response Paper Due: Greenfield

W. Shirky's Here Comes Everybody

F. no class: Reading Catch-up Day

M. Shirky's Here Comes Everybody

W. Shirky's Here Comes Everybody|Response Paper Due: Shirky

F. Shirky's Here Comes Everybody|Assignment: essay #3: Greenfield and/or Shirky (3-5pp)

M. Hacktivism|Easy Online Activism|Fuck for Forest|Naked Protest (check out before class, looking especially at descriptions of hacktivism and electronic civil disobedience)

W. No regular class: Conferences on essay #3

F. Due: essay #3|Nicholas Carr's "Is Google Making Me Stupid?" (course packet)

"NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE": KNOWLEDGE AND CORRUPTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

M. Tufte's The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint|Pecha Kucha|Assignment: Google-ography and Pecha Kucha

W. Workshop: Google-ography and Pecha Kucha (meet in Jackson 305)

Easter Break

Easter Break

W. Google-ography/pecha kucha (3)

F. Google-ography/pecha kucha (3)

M. Google-ography/pecha kucha (3)

W. Google-ography/pecha kucha (3)

F. Google-ography/pecha kucha (3)

M. William J. Mitchell's "Epilogue" to Me++ (course packet)

W. Review for final exam

F. Review for final exam

Wed, May 6, 8am-11am