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Introductions

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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!

Readings

Book list

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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

 

Assignments, Schedule

Schedule

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Course Schedule

The activities listed here are due before the next class begins.

9/3:     Class: Welcome! “Google Me” and syllabus review.

Home: E-Introductions of your partner posted to the blog. Get your books. Read: Vannevar Bush. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/

9/8:     Class: Present Introductions, discuss blog.

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

9/10:    Class: Annotate “The Machine Stops.”

Home: Finish annotations. Read Jason Ponti. “How Authors Write.” MIT Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/review/429654/how-authors-write/

9/15:    Class: The History of New Media. Digital Literacy Narratives.

Home: Post narratives by Friday. Read Jussi Parikka.“The Geology of Media.” The Atlantic. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-geology-of-media/280523/

9/17:    Class: Defining “new media.” Bring Writer/Designer.

Home: Read Lev Manovich. “What is New Media?” from The Language of New Media. (pages 11-62). Research definitions of “new media,” post summary.

9/22     Class: Present narratives.

Home: Read Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. (Introduction – Origins, 1-73).

9/24     Class: Presentations continued.

Home: Read Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. (Imperatives – Listen to Tech, 73-175).  CHECK YOUR GROUP.

9/29     Class: Library Session. Discussion of midterm.

Home: Read Kevin Kelly. What Technology Wants. (Choosing the Inevitable – Choices, 175- 239) Group 1 post provocations.

10/1     Class: Applying Manovich to the WP Interface. Fishbowl for group 1 (first section of Kelly book). Bring Kelly book and Manovich article.

Home: Finish Kevin Kelly. Group 2 post provocations.

10/6     Class: Fishbowl for group 2. Bring Writer/Designer.

Home: Midterm draft. Read Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Part 1.

10/8     Class: Book traces.  Bring Writer/Designer.

Home: Post Book Traces reflection/images/discoveries. Continue to read Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Work on midterm.

10/13   No Class.  Read Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Part 2. Post midterm draft by Tuesday night.

10/15   Class: Midterm workshop. Bring paper copies of your midterm draft.

Home: Finish Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451. Post revised midterm by Friday at midnight.

10/20   Class:  Fahrenheit 451 debate. Design Fiction/Final assignment.

Home: Read Kari Kraus. “Bibliocircuitry and the Design of the Alien Everyday.” PDF. Post three questions for Dr. Kraus.

10/22 Class: Guest Speaker, Kari Kraus.

Home: Read Margaret Atwood. Oryx and Crake. Parts 1-5. Post provocation. Live tweet!

10/27   Class: Fishbowl. Live tweet!

Home: Read Margaret Atwood. Oryx and Crake. Parts 6-10. Respond/Post provocation. Live tweet!

10/29   Class: Fishbowl. Dystopias. Live tweet!

Home: Finish Margaret Atwood. Oryx and Crake. Parts 11-15. Respond/Post provocation. Live tweet!

11/3     Class: Fishbowl. Live tweet!

Home: Read Katherine Hayles. How We Think. Selection from pdf, 1-19. Optional: How we read.

11/5     Class: Reverse outlining Hayles.

Home: Read Katherine Hayles. How We Think. Selection from pdf, Tech TOC, 85-123. Optional: Chapter 5. Post close readings.

11/10   Class: Comparative Media Studies.

Home: Read Matthew Kirschenbaum. Track Changes. Selection, pdf. Read Sullivan/ Kirschenbaum interview online:   http://harvardpress.typepad.com/hup_publicity/2014/01/hannah-sullivan-matthew-kirschenbaum-in-conversation.html.

Post a question for Matthew Kirschenbaum by Sunday night, the earlier the better (use tag “Track Changes).

11/12   Class: Guest visit, Matthew Kirschenbaum.

Home: Review Matthew Kirschenbaum. New Mechanisms. Selection, pdf: available under “Readings” and here http://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl800/Kirschenbaum-intro.pdf. Write pitch, post by FRIDAY. Read all pitches by Monday.

11/17   Class: Anthony T. Atkins. “Collaborating Online: Digital Strategies for Group Work.” available under “Readings” and here: http://www.parlorpress.com/pdf/atkins–collaborating-online.pdf

Choose groups, write contract.

Home: Develop proposal.

11/19   Class: Annotated Bibliographies.

Home: Post 2 annotated bibliography entries. Respond to 4 entries. Work on final project.

11/24   Class: Revision with your group. Bring your proposals to class on paper.

Home: Revise and post proposal by Sunday.

11/26   CLASS CANCELLED. Happy Thanksgiving!

12/1     Class: Designing time. Conferences.

Home:  Group work.

12/3     Conferences.

Home:  Finish final project.

12/8    Presentations.

12/10   Presentations.

 

 

 

Resources

ZotPress Tutorial

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September 2014
ZotPress
Co-written by Amanda Licastro & Margaret Galvan

The texts for our course have been imported into a Zotero group bibliography and uploaded onto our course website.

Whenever you write new content for the course website, you will need to cite your sources from this bibliography. This handout will walk you through the process of how to use ZotPress, a WordPress plugin that integrates a Zotero bibliography into our course website. If you are adding new references that don’t already exist in our class bibliography, you will need to add your reference—with complete information (i.e. author’s or authors’ first and last names, publisher, publishing location, year, etc.)—to our Zotero Group library.

When you are composing in a new post, you will notice a “ZotPress” box on the right hand side next to the post. This box contains two tabs “Bibliography” and “In-Text.” It may be the case that these options show up in a list rather than tabs – if that is true, please save the post as a draft and then check again. This function will only work when the options show up as tabs.

Once you see the ZotPress box in its correct form follow these steps:

  • Put your quotes and references to the text, in proper MLA format, in the post. (Please refer to this guide from OWL Purdue, “MLA In-Text Citations: The Basics,” https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/02/)
  • Select the “In-Text” option from the ZotPress box. Start typing the name of the text you are referencing into the search box and wait for it to autocomplete (you should notice a spinny wheel on the right of the search box when this is happening). Click the appropriate reference from the drop-down list that generates.zotpress_bush_intext
  • A blue reference with author last name and year will appear below. Click the arrow to the right of the name and year in order to add a page number (or other locational reference). 
  • Click “Generate Shortcode.” ZotPress will generate a code for both the in-text citation and for your full bibliography.
  • Copy the generated code from the “Shortcode” box. Example: [zotpress items=”49HRNE6C” style=”modern-language-
    association” sort=”DESC”]
  • Paste this shortcode after the end of your quote or reference to the text in the post. (This shortcode will render your parenthetical citation for you.)
  • Now, make sure to go back to the ZotPress box and copy the “Bibliography” code that ZotPress automatically generated and included below the in-text code. It should look similar to this: [zotpressInTextBib style=”modern-language-
    association” sort=”ASC”]
  • Paste the bibliography code at the bottom of your post, which will create your list of references. REMEMBER: ZotPress automatically alphabetizes these references, but you must check this to ensure they are correct once you are finished composing.
  • When adding multiple references, you will note all previous references show up when you create a new in-text code in ZotPress. Please make sure to X-out any unwanted previous references before generating a new shortcode, or else both authors’ names will appear in your citation.
  • When you finish and publish your post, please read through your published post to doublecheck that all of your references to the text(s) are accompanied by accurate parenthetical citations (generated by the ZotPress shortcode) and that your bibliography contains complete citational information.
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