courses /winter 06 /danm 202 /schedule

week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | week 5 | week 6 | week 7 | week 8 | week 9 | week 10 |

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Final Readings

Readings Questions

Readings Groups Schedule

Student Presentations

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week 1 11.01.06
cybercultures?

readings:

1. David Bell, An Introduction to Cybercultures chapters 1-5.

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week 2 18.01.06
technics

readings:

1. Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1936), Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (1968; New York: Schocken, 1969) 217-51. PDF, ERES
2. Martin Heidegger, “The Question Concerning Technology” ([1955] 1962), The Question concerning Technology and Other Essays, trans. William Lovitt (New York: Harper, 1977) 2-35. PDF, ERES
3. Roger Silverstone & Leslie Haddon, “Design and Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies: Technical Change and Everyday Life,” Communication by Design: The Politics of Information and Communication Technologies, ed. Robin Mansell and Roger Silverstone (London: Oxford UP) 44-74. PDF, ERES

Reading Presentation

1. James Khazar on Benjamin

Cultural Presentation

1. Nici on Illegal Art, see the outline of the presentation!

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week 3 25.01.06
properties

readings:

1. Lawrence Lessig, “Building Blocks: ‘Commons’ and ‘Layers,’” “Commons on the Wires,” The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World, (2001; New York: Vintage, 2002) 19-48. ERES
2. Roger Silverstone, “Proper Distance: Toward an Ethics for Cyberspace,” Digital Media Revisited: Theoretical and Conceptual Innovation in Digital Domains, ed. Gunnar Liestøl et al. (Cambridge MA: MIT P, 2003) 469-90. ERES
3. Mobile Cultures: David Mullaly, “Queerly Embodying the Good and the Normal.”
4. Margaret Morse, “Virtualities: A Conceptual Framework,” Virtualities: Television, Media, and Cyberculture (Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998) 3-35. ERES
5. David Bell, “Bodies in Cyberspace,” Introduction to Cybercultures, chapter 7.

Reading Presentation

1. No.e on Proper Distance: Improper Distance

Cultural Presentation

1. Alan Tollefson
2. Tyler on the Multi-Tiered Internet

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week 4 01.02.06
politics

Monday colloquium (30.01.06): Mark Danks

readings:

1. Jan Van Dijk, “Models of Democracy and Concepts of Communication,” Digital Democracy: Issues of Theory and Practice, ed. Kenneth L. Hacker and Jan van Dijk (London: Sage, 2000) 30-53. ERES
2. Bruce Bimber, “Information, Equality, and Integration in the Public Sphere,” Information and American Democracy: Technology and the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press) 229-49. ERES
3. Tiziana Terranova, “Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy” Social Text 18.2 (Summer 2000): 33-58. ERES

Reading Presentation

1. ..

Cultural Presentation

1. Alan Tollefson

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week 5 08.02.06
hybridities

Monday colloquium (06.02.06): Tara McPherson

readings:

1. essays to be determined from Vectors.
   Narrating Bits
   Read both or either:
   WiFi Bedouin
   Guantamobile
2. Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes, chapter 2.
3. Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, “Introduction: Rhizome,” “Conclusion: Concrete Rules and Abstract Machines,” A Thousand Plateaus, trans. Brian Massumi, Capitalism and Schizophrenia vol. 2 (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1987) 3-25; 501-516.
4. David Bell, “Cyberspace Subcultures,” Introduction to Cybercultures, chapter 8.

Reading Presentation

1. Alan Tollefson

Cultural Presentation

1. Cynthia
2. Tyler

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week 6 15.02.06
identities

readings:

1. Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes, chapters 1(pp 1-30), 3(pp 61-85), 5(pp 101-135), conclusion(pp 137-146).
2. Mobile Cultures: Introduction; Chris Berry & Fran Martin, “Syncretism and Synchronicity.”
3. Catherine S. Ramírez, “Deus ex Machina: Tradition, Technology, and the Chicanafuturist Art of Marion C. Martinez” Aztlán 29.2 (Fall 2004): 55-92.
4. David Bell, “Identities in Cyberspace,” Introduction to Cybercultures, chapter 6.

Reading Presentation

1. Cynthia

Cultural Presentation

1. James Khazar on NetNoir
2. no.e on Deux ex Machina:: Rumah Seni Cemeti

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week 7 22.02.06
mobilities

readings:

1. Mobile Cultures: Larissa Hjorth, “Pop and ma”; Olivia Khoo, “Sexing the City.”
2. Genevieve Bell, “The Age of the Thumb: A Cultural Reading of Mobile Technologies from Asia,” Thumb Culture: Social Trends and Mobile Phone Use (Bielefeld: 2005).
3. Vicente L. Rafael, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines” Public Culture 15.3: 399-425. ERES

Reading Presentation

1. Tyler

Cultural Presentation

1. ..Cynthia

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week 8 01.03.06
transnationalities

Monday colloquium (27.02.06): Genevieve Bell

readings:

1. Mobile Cultures:
   

   Tom Boellstorff, “I Knew It Was Me” 21-51;
   Mark McClelland, “Japanese Queerscapes” 52-69;
   Audrey Yue, “Paging ‘New Asia.’” 245-266

2. Lisa Nakamura, Cybertypes, chapter 4, 87-99.
3. Kimberly Christen, “Gone Digital: Aboriginal Remix and the Cultural Commons” International Journal of Cultural Property 12 (2005): 315-45. ERES

Reading Presentation

1. Nici

Cultural Presentation

1. James Khazar on Gone Digital

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week 9 08.03.06
presentations

Monday colloquium (06.03.06): Gordon Monahan

readings to be determined by presenters

readings:

1. Tyler - Wildbit Social Networks Report

Presenters

1. Tyler

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week 10 15.03.06
presentations

readings to be determined by presenters

Presenters

1. Cynthia - Cynthia's Final Readings
2. no.e Activism--Traditional and Contemporary Artforms

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Final projects due Monday, March 20