Introductions

For your first assignment, I would like you to post an Introduction of your partner, here on our course site. To do this you must first find out as much about your partner as possible using the internet. They should only personally provide you with basic information (full name, high school, etc). Once you are ready to post, follow these steps:

  1. Login to this site on the left hand side
  2. Go to the Dashboard of our site
  3. Create a new post
  4. Compose an informative post that tells us about your partner  (feel free to use pictures, videos, and links to other fun stuff)
  5. Tag your post as “introduction” on the bottom right of the post, and categorize your post as “Reflections.” This is very important, if you do not put a tag and category on your post it will not show up on the correct section of the site, nor will you receive credit for doing this assignment.
  6. Publish the post

If you have any questions please contact me.

I’m looking forward to meeting all of you!

Book list

Required Texts:

These are the texts that have been ordered from the NYU bookstore, however, any edition – including e-books of the full texts – may be acceptable if you consult me first. I encourage you to find the format that works best for you.

Margaret Atwood. Oryx and Crake. http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk/home.asp

Kristen Arola, Jennifer Sheppard, Cheryl Ball. Writer/Designer: A Guide to Making Multimodal Projects. http://www.macmillanhighered.com/Catalog/product/writerdesigner-firstedition-arola

Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13259307-fahrenheit-451

E. M. Forster. “The Machine Stops.” (full text online)  http://archive.ncsa.illinois.edu/prajlich/forster.html

Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. http://www.amazon.com/What-Technology-Wants-Kevin-Kelly/dp/B004Y6MT6O

Optional texts:

The required selections/excerpts will be provided, however you are encouraged to purchase the full text if financially able and if applicable to your future studies.

Katherine Hayles. How We Think.  http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo5437533.html

Lisa Gitelman. Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents.   http://www.amazon.com/Paper-Knowledge-History-Documents-Transmission/dp/0822356570/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1407357835&sr=1                 1&keywords=Lisa+Gitelman.+Paper+Knowledge

Lev Manovich. The Language of New Media.  http://www.amazon.com/The-Language-Media-Leonardo-Books/dp/0262632551