Wednesday, Week 5 Readings

To be completed by Monday, February 9:

Manovich, Lev. “Database as Symbolic Form”. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Vesna, Victoria, ed. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. Print. 39-60. (pdf)

Seaman, Bill. “Recombinant Poetics and Related Database Aesthetics”. Database Aesthetics: Art in the Age of Information Overflow. Vesna, Victoria, ed. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press, 2007. Print. 121-140. (PDF)

Wednesday Week 2 Readings

These cover all of next week, so try and get them done by Monday.  There won’t be any readings on Monday of next week so the load of readings will be lightened considerably from here on out.

1. Barabási, Albert-László. Linked: The New Science of Networks. Cambridge (MA): Perseus, 2002. Print. (Extract, PDF)

2. “The 80/20 Rule”. Barabási, Albert-László. Linked: The New Science of Networks. Cambridge (MA): Perseus, 2002. Print. (extract, PDF)

3. Watts, Duncan J. Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age. London: Vintage, 2003. Print. (Extract – PDF) (Note: this one is a bit long and wanders so just skim through it a bit.)

4. Anderson, Chris. “The Long Tail.” Wired. N.p., Oct. 2004. Web. 23 Aug. 2013. (PDF, and Web)

Week 2, Monday Readings

These to be completed by Wednesday, 14/1/2015.

1. (&2) Douglas, J. The End of Books — Or Books Without End?: Reading Interactive Narratives. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.
(First reading, and the second reading)

3. Graham, Paul. “The Age of the Essay.” Paul Graham. http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html N.p., Sept. 2004. Web. 11 Aug. 2013.(pdf)

4. Shields, David. Reality Hunger: A Manifesto. New York: Vintage, 2011. Print. “Collage” extract, (pdf)

Week 1, Wednesday Readings

These should be completed by next Monday.  These are listed in order of importance and I would encourage you to think about the significance of the date of publication attached to each piece as it will inform your understanding of the text.

1. Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic July 1945. The Atlantic. Web. 19 July 2013.

2. Extracts from: Landow, George P. Hypertext 3.0: Critical Theory and New Media in an Era of Globalization. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Print. (low rez PDF)

3. Extract from: Bolter, Jay DavidWriting Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale (N.J.): Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991. Print. (low rez PDF)

4. Nelson, Theodor Holm. Literary Machines 91.1: The Report On, and Of, Project Xanadu Concerning Word Processing, Electronic Publishing, Hypertext, Thinkertoys, Tomorrow’s Intellectual Revolution, And Certain Other Topics Including Knowledge, Education and Freedom. Sausalito: Mindful Press, 1992. Print. (PDF)

Summer Schedule

You can find the schedule for what you need to do this semester right here.

For the more studious amongst you, you can go through all of the readings early but given how compressed the course is already I wouldn’t recommend it.

Welcome to 2015 Summer Semester

We’re ready to kick off Summer semester for 2015 and I’m sure it’s going to be a good one.

First things first – your blog should be ready to go at the URL media factory.org.au/firstname-lastname.  You should have received instructions from media factory via your student email account on how to get that up and running.  If you haven’t received the email, please check your spam filters and trash folders.

On Wednesday we’ll be moving into territory concerning your rights and obligations online.  To do so, you’ll need to review the readings, especially those concerning copyright, so please have a look at those listed here:

  1. Miles, Adrian. “Network Literacy: The New Path to Knowledge.” Screen Education Autumn.45 (2007): 24–30. (pdf)
  2. Miles, Adrian. “Blogs in Media Education: A Beginning.” Australian Screen Ed 41 (2006): 66–9. Print. (pdf)
  3. Copyright video set:

What is Creative Commons?

Blogs and Australian Law

Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons

Creative Commons Australia

Why Creative Commons happened

Australian Copyright Council

Lastly, there is an optional reading if you have time, otherwise just make sure you read it before next week:

  1. “Chris Argyris: Theories of Action, Double-Loop Learning and Organizational Learning.” http://infed.org/mobi/chris-argyris-theories-of-action-double-loop-learning-and-organizational-learning/. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 July 2013. (pdf)