Time: 12:00 PM-12:50 PM

• Buy required books and CD-ROMs at UCSB Bookstore
• Buy course reader at Alternative Copy Shop
• Pick up sticker for use of Instructional Computing labs (if needed) in Phelps Hall courtyard (bring syllabus or other proof of being in this class)

Readings Due: Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message" (1964)

Readings Due: Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (1982), pp. 16-27, 31-77

Readings Due:

• Claude E. Shannon, "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948), pp. 3-6
• Warren Weaver, "Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1949), pp. 95-109, 114-17

Readings Due:

• Paul E. Ceruzzi, A History of Modern Computing (1998), pp. 13-46
• Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine (1996), pp. 233-58

Readings Due:

• Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray, Computer: A History of the Information Machine (1996), pp. 283-97
• Richard T. Griffiths, "From ARPANET to World Wide Web"
• NCSA "Beginner's Guide to HTML," Part I

Readings Due:

• The Original New Media: Writing
• Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy, pp. 78-83, 93-103
• The New New Media: Digital and Networked Media
• Lev Manovitch, The Language of New Media (2001), pp. 18-48, 218-28

Readings Due:

• William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" (1798)
• William Gibson, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) (1992)
• Peter Schwenger, "Agrippa, or, The Apocalyptic Book" (1994)

Readings Due:

• Ed Falco, Self Portrait as Child with Father (1999)
• Olia Lialina, My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996)
• Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (July 1945) [in Trend]
• George Landow, "Hypertext and Critical Theory" (1991) [in Trend]

Readings Due:

• Graphic arts in an earlier era: Jan Tschichold, The New Typography (1928) (sample images and excerpts)
• David Carson's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)
• April Greiman's graphic design work (1980s-90s) (sample images, course password required)
• Examples of cutting-edge Web design: explore some of the "styles" of Web design categorized by Curt Cloninger on the site associated with his book, Fresh Styles for Web Designers: Eye Candy from the Underground
• Lev Manovitch, The Language of New Media (2001), pp. 123-45

Readings Due:

• Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942), pp. 82-84 (on "creative destruction")
• Shoshana Zuboff, In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power (1988) [in Trend]; also read these online excerpts.
• Joseph H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn, Workplace 2000 (1992), pp. 1-46
• William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone, The Virtual Corporation (1992), pp. 1-19, 50-72, 184-205, 214-16

Readings Due:

• Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline (1990), pp. 3-14
• Manuel Castells, "The Informational Economy" [in Trend]

Readings Due:

• Cyberlibertarianism
  • John Perry Barlow, "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" (1996)
  • Jon Katz, "Birth of a Digital Nation," Wired Magazine (April 1997) (article in sequence of eight web pages)
• Critics of Cyberlibertarianism
  • Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, "The Californian Ideology" (1996). Full Length Mix version.
  • Vivian Sobchack, "New Age Mutant Ninja Hackers: Reading Mondo 2000" (1994) [in Trend]
• NGOs (non-governmental organizations) and the Internet
  • Institute for Global Communications (IGC) & Association for Progressive Communications (APC). Browse these two networks of NGO sites.

Readings Due: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) (read at least half the novel by this date)

Readings Due: William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984) (finish reading the novel)

Due on this date: online, revised version of 4-page essay (Web Authoring Assignment) (see Technology Help page for information regarding technical assistance and resources for Web authoring)

Readings Due:

• Familiarize yourself with the work of the following two artists or artist groups:
  • Joseph Nechvatal, Home Page
  • "Jodi" (Joan Hermskerk and Dirk Paesmans, Home Page
• Critical Art Ensemble, "Electronic Civil Disobedience" (1996) and "The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net" (1995) [Note: these essays are in the reader but are also part of books by the CAE that can be retrieved online in the form of .pdf files.]

Readings Due:

• Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" (1993) [in Trend]
• Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher" (read in comparison to the Dibbell essay above)
• Donna Haraway, "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" (1985) [in Trend]

• Laura Miller, "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier" [in Trend]
• Sherry Turkle, "Who Am We?" (1995) [in Trend]
• Edgar Allan Poe, "William Wilson"
• If you've never been in a MOO environment, you may wish to venture as a guest into the lamdaMOO discussed in the Dibbell essay--at least as far as reading the tutorial and trying the interface. Use a telnet client to go to lambda.moo.mud.org, port 8888 (most computers have a telnet client installed, in which case clicking on the above link in a Web browser should open it).

Readings Due:

• Margaret Morse, "Virtually Female: Body and Code" (1997) [in Trend]
• Lisa Nakamura, "Race In/For Cyberspace: Identity Tourism and Racial Passing on the Internet" (2000) [in Trend]
• Jennifer González, "The Appended Subject: Race and Identity in Digital Assemblage" (2000)
• Kostya Mitenev, Undina
• Victoria Vesna, Bodies© INCorporated

Readings Due: M. D. Coverley (Marjorie Luesebrink), Califia
(Try to make your way through at least the first two "journeys" in this hypertext novel: the journeys South and East.

Readings Due: M. D. Coverley (Marjorie Luesebrink), Califia
(Journey the rest of the way to the close of the novel in the West.)

Readings Due: Rand and Robyn Miller, Riven
(Try to play some of this "game" throughout the quarter so that you have a good sense of the world it creates; no one is expected to "finish." You may "cheat" using the below guides, but try to play at least some of the game without cheating.)

8-page paper due in class

Recommended Readings:

• Cyan's Official Home Page for Myst and Riven
• Riven Unofficial Home Page (Jim Stephenson)
• Jim Stephenson, "World Builder: A Conversation with Robyn Miller"
• "Don't Cheat at Riven: The Riven Hint Site" (Decent Designs, Inc.)