| Wk | Date | Day | Readings (have read these items by the time class meets) | Assignments Due at the beginning of this Class Meeting, Posted on your Blog |
| 1 | 8/25 |
W |
Introduction |
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| 8/27 | F | UNIT 1: NARRATIVE AS TECHNOLOGY Spencer Holst, "The Zebra Storyteller" |
Log onto the class Blackboard and Course Modules sites. Introduce yourself to everyone by making a blog. |
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| 2 | 8/30 |
M |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The Birthmark" |
Assignment #1, Module 1 -- Narrative as a Tool for Thinking About Technology |
| 9/1 | W | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (78-128, Chs. 10-17) |
Comment on a classmate's Blog at our class Blog site. | |
| 9/3 | F | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (129-198, Chs. 18-24) | Assignment #2, Module 1 -- Narrative as a Tool for Thinking About Technology | |
| 3 | 9/6 | M |
LABOR DAY -- NO CLASSES |
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| 9/7 | T | MONDAY / TUES EXCHANGE: We Meet Today! Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner) |
Assignment #1, Module 2 --
Narrative as a Tool for Thinking About Technology |
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| 9/8 | W | LIBRARY DAY: View the movie Blade Runner (on reserve, closed stacks, IMC) sometime between 9/6 and 9/13 |
Comment on the movie in your Blog; comment on a classmate's Blog. | |
| 9/10 | F | Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream? |
Assignment #2, Module 2 -- Narrative as a Tool for Thinking About Technology | |
| 4 | 9/13 |
M |
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of the Forking Paths" (from Everything and Nothing) |
Assignment #1, Module 4 -- Narrative Constructions of Self in Film and Story |
| 9/15 | W | excerpts from The Wizard of Oz, to be shown in class |
Assignment #2, Module 4 -- Narrative Constructions of Self in Film and Story Comment on a classmate's Blog. |
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| 9/17 | F | Marie-Laure Ryan, Introduction to Narrative Across
Media: The Languages of Storytelling (e-reserves) |
Assignment #3, Module 4 -- Narrative Constructions of Self in Film and Story | |
| 5 | 9/20 |
M |
excerpts from Alan Palmer, Fictional Minds (avail.
in NetLibrary)
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Assignment, Module 5, Part I -- Creating Oneself in Media |
| 9/22 | W | excerpts from Scott Fisher, Multimedia Authoring |
Assignment, Module 5, Part II -- Creating Oneself in Media Comment on a classmate's Blog. |
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| 9/23 | R | EXTRA CREDIT: Sut Jhally, "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of an American Empire" Pearson 128, 4 p.m. |
Comment in your Blog on Jhally's talk. | |
| 9/24 | F | excerpts from Steven Krug, Don't Make Me Think!:
A Common-Sense Approach to Web Usability |
Assignment, Module 5, Part III -- Creating Oneself in Media | |
| 6 | 9/27 |
M |
Robert Markley, Red Planet: Scientific and Cultural Encounters with Mars (we will pass CD-Rom around or I will put it on reserve) Edward Tufte, "The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint" |
Assignment, Module 5, Part IV -- Creating Oneself in Media |
| 9/29 | W | Tufte on the Use of Bullets Challenger Clive Thompson, "PowerPoint Makes You Dumb" Stephen Shugart, "Beyond PowerPoint" |
Assignment
2, Module 6 -- The Form of Information
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| 10/1 | F | ROBERT MARKLEY VISITS What Difference Form Makes: Mary E. Hocks, Michelle Kendrick, Introduction to Eloquent Images |
Assignment 3, Module 6 -- The Form of Information | |
EXTRA CREDIT: Robert Markley's Talk, 337 BAC, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. |
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| 7 | 10/4 |
M |
George Orwell, "Politics and the English
Language" |
Last day to withdraw with a "W." Any student who has missed four classes or more by this date will be dropped from the class. Assignment
1, Module 6 -- The Form of Information |
| 10/6 | W | UNIT 2: METAPHOR AS TECHNOLOGY excerpt from Plato, The Phaedrus (on writing) excerpt from Jack Goody, Intro. to Interface Between the Written
and the Oral (excerpt) [Begin reading Walden, pp. 1-52 "Economy"] |
Assignment 2, Introduction -- Metaphors For Humanity |
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| 10/8 | F | MATT KIRSCHENBAUM VISITS essays by Matt Kirschenbaum
[Walden, pp. 52-90, up to "Visitors"] |
Comment on a classmate's Blog. | |
EXTRA CREDIT: Matt Kirschenbaum's Talk, 337 BAC, 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. |
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| 8 | 10/11 | M |
William Blake, “A Poison Tree” (with
pictures; text only) [Walden, pp. 90-144, up to "Brute Neighbors"] |
Assignment 2, Module 1 -- Metaphors affect how we think and feel |
| 10/13 | W | Judy Collins, Both
Sides Now CANCELLED: GAME MISSING!!! Castle of Otranto Game: Instructions; Game [Walden, pp. 144-182, up to "The Pond in Winter"] |
Assignment 1, Module 1 -- Metaphors affect how we think, feel, and act | |
| 10/15 | F | FALL BREAK -- NO CLASSES [Finish Walden, pp. 182-216] |
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| 9 | 10/18 | M |
Reread Walden "Economy," "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," "Reading," "Sounds," "The Ponds" (1-84) | Assignment 1, Introduction -- Metaphors For Humanity |
| 10/20 | W | excerpt from John Locke, “Of Ideas
in General, and their Originality.” |
Assignments 1, 2, or 3, Module 2-- Metaphors affect how we conceive of human nature; educating the mind | |
| 10/22 | F | Nell Bernstein, "The War Off Drugs" Metaphors We Live By, pp. 156-158. |
Assignments 1, Module 3 -- Metaphors in Action I: Determining Public Policy -- Begin Assignment 3, Module 3, today: Your notebook for Assignment 3 will be due on 12/8 |
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| 10 | 10/25 | M |
excerpt from, Joe Klein, "How to Build
a Better Democrat" |
Assignments 2 and 4, Module 3 -- Metaphors in Action I: Determining Public Policy |
| 10/27 | W | "A true and most dreadful discourse of a woman possessed with the Devill . . . ." (published 1584) (Miami Students: see pictures of the original text through Early English Books Online; click on search, then search by title, or, if you are logged into the Network, click here.) excerpt, from Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory |
Assignment 1, Module 4 -- Metaphor and Responsibility | |
| 10/29 | F | The Three Faces of Eve (Hollywood film starring Joanne Woodward, 1957) -- to be shown in class REREAD excerpt, from Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory |
Assignment 2, Module 4 -- Metaphor and Responsibility | |
| 11 | 11/1 | M |
from Georges Cuvier, The Animal Kingdom (1884) Metaphors We Live By, pp. 106-125. |
Assignments 1 through 3, Module 5 -- Metaphors in Action II, Understanding Animals |
| 11/3 | W | "Reality Versus Metaphor" | Comment on a classmate's Blog | |
| 11/5 | F | Mind as printing press: Mind as Computer: |
Assignment 1, Module 6 -- Metaphors in Action III, Understanding Humans | |
| 12 | 11/8 | M |
Mind as Computer: Mind as . . . . Metaphors We Live By, pp. 139-146. |
Assignments 2 and 3, Module 6 -- Metaphors in Action III, Understanding Humans |
| 11/10 | W | UNIT 3: TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or a Modern Prometheus excerpt from Erving Goffman, Stigma:
Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity |
Assignment 1, Module 1 -- Self / Other | |
| 11/12 | F | Charles Dickens, excerpt from Great Expectations (1860-61) excerpt from Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes
on the Management of Spoiled Identity |
Assignment 2, Module 1 -- Self / Other | |
| 13 | 11/15 | M |
David Hume, "Of Personal Identity" excerpt from Erving Goffman, The Presentation
of Self in Everyday Life (published 1959, Introduction,
Chapter 1, Conclusion) |
Assignment 1 or 2, Module 3 -- Concepts of Self |
| 11/17 | W | After creating
your character, we will meet on
Miami's MOO.
excerpt from, Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet ("Aspects of the Self," Ch. 7) |
Creating Selves in Media Today's class discussion will be held in the MOO. Prepare by reading Instructions for (Re)Creating a MOO Character Comment on a classmate's Blog |
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| 11/19 | F | excerpt from, Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet ("Aspects of the Self," Ch. 7) |
Assignment 1, Module 4 -- Creating Selves in Media | |
| 14 | 11/22 | M |
Julian Dibbel, "A
Rape in Cyberspace" (Village Voice, 21 December 1993); "I
Feel Pretty," from My Tiny Life Laura Miller, "Women and Children First," in Resisting the Virtual Life 49-58 David Chandler, "Personal Home Pages and the Construction of Identities on the Web" |
Assignment 2, Module 4 -- Creating Selves in Media |
| 11/24 | W | THANKSGIVING VACATION -- NO CLASSES | ||
| 11/26 | F | THANKSGIVING VACATION -- NO CLASSES | ||
| 15 | 11/29 | M |
Paris
Hilton: <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0385296/photogallery> Sut Jhally, "Image-Based Culture" -- available from The World & I Archive, article #17591 (July 1990) [Miami Students: go to Blackboard, Course Documents] |
Assignment 1, Module 4 -- Self and Body |
| 12/1 | W | excerpt from Sut Jhally, Dreamworlds 2 (will be shown in
class) Nick Gillespie, "Happy Birthday, MTV" (Reason on line) |
Comment on a classmate's Blog | |
| 12/3 | F | UNIT 1: NARRATIVE AS TECHNOLOGY Gary Marshall, Dir., excerpts from Pretty Woman (to be shown in class) Grimm Brothers, "Ashputtle" Vladimir Propp, excerpts from Morphology of the Folktale |
Assignment 1, Module 3 -- Narrative as Technology: The Uses of Fairytale | |
| 16 | 12/6 | M |
UNIT 3: TECHNOLOGY AND IDENTITY Anne Sexton, "Cinderella" |
Poetry: Response Assignment, to be turned in on paper at the beginning of class (follow the instructions in Blackboard, Assignments, Response Assignments, Poetry). |
| 12/8 | W | UNIT 2: METAPHORS AS TECHNOLOGY Final Discussion COURSE EVALUTIONS |
Assignment 3, Module 3, Metaphors as Technology: Notebook due today to share with class | |
| 12/10 | F | CLASS PARTY | ||
| FE | 12/14 | T | FINAL EXAM: Tues. December 14, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in our classroom, Upham 163 | Make any additions or changes to your Blog by 7:30 p.m. |