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)
Only one reading this week to be completed by Monday, 2nd February. It’s a bit dense so be sure to take your time with it.
Galloway, Alexander R. Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization. The MIT Press, 2006. Print. (Extract from Introduction, PDF)
Andrew Murphie and John Potts, Culture and Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print. ‘Theoretical Frameworks’ extract (PDF)
Andrew Murphie and John Potts, Culture and Technology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Print. ‘Introduction’ extract (PDF)
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)
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)
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 David. Writing 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)
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:
Lawrence Lessig on Creative Commons
Lastly, there is an optional reading if you have time, otherwise just make sure you read it before next week: