Unit 1: Intro to XXX COURSE
Week 1: Welcome
Tuesday, February 2: Introduction
Welcome to XXXX COURSE
READ & ANNOTATE : 2015 Open Internet Order
—Information + Guide to Annotation: HERE [insert link]
–> COMPLETE by Wednesday, February 3, 8pm: Introduction Post
Thursday, February 4: Intro to New Meda
READ & ANNOTATE: Linda Friedman, Hershey Freidman. “The New Media Technologies: Overview and Reseach Framework” (2008)
READ & ANNOTATE: Lev Manovich. “What is New Media?: Eight Propositions” from New Media from Borges to HTML in the New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (Eds). The MIT Press. (2002)
–>COMPLETE by Saturday, February 6, 8pm: What is New Media? Post
Week 2: History
Tuesday, February 9: No Class
CUNY Friday
Thursday, February 11: History of New Media
–>COMPLETE By Wednesday, February 10, 8pm: History of New Media Post
READ: Manuel Castells. “Chapter 1: The Information Technology Revolution” in The Network Society. Blackwell: Masschusetts. (1996)
–>COMPLETE By Saturday, February 13, 8pm: Comment on two other posts
Week 3: Theory and Practice
February 16: Theories of New Media
READ: Steve Jones. “Chapter 1: Eversion” in The Emergence of the Digital Humanities. Routledge. (2013)
February 18: Practice of New Media
READ: Tim O’Reilly. “What is Web 2.0?” in The Social Media Reader, Mandiberg, M. (Eds). New York: New York University Press. Creative Commons, BY SA NC. (2012)
OPTIONAL READ: Lev Manovich. “Software Takes Command” CC: BY-NC-ND 3.0 (2008)
–> By Saturday, February 20, 8pm: Web 2.0 Exmaples Post
