Required Readings
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Week 1: Introduction to the Subject
No reading this week – however, please come prepared from week 2 onward ready to discuss the reading.
Week 2 From Face To Face to Cyberspace
All
Benedikt, Michael. “Introduction” in Cyberspace: First Steps, ed. M. Benedikt, Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 1993, pp.1-25.
Group 1
Sconce, Jeffrey, Haunted media: electronic presence from telegraphy to television, Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2000, Chapter 1, pp. 21-58
http://80-onlineres.swin.edu.au.ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/447887.pdf
Group 2
Mitchell, W., “Electronic Agoras”, from City of Bits. Space, Place, and the Infobahn, Cambridge Mass., MIT Press, 1995, pp.6-25.
Group 3
Wark, McKenzie., “Too Real” in Darren Tofts, Annemarie Jonson & Alessio Cavallaro (eds), Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History, (Sydney: Power Publications & Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press, 2003.
Week 3 Cultural Literacy: Some Principles of Writing
All
Tofts, Darren, “The Technology Within” from Tofts, D. & McKeich, M., Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture, 21C Books, Interface, 1997, pp.15-31. On Blackboard
Group 1
Lucy, N., “The Phake Fone: Crossing (Telecommunication) Lines”, Social Semiotics, 4, 1-2,1994, pp. 101-115.
Group 2
Theall, Donald., “From the Cyberglobal Chaosmos to the Gutenberg Galaxy: The Prehistory of Cyberelectronic Language (s)”, in Armand, L (ed) Mind Factory, Prague, Litteraria Pragensia, 2005, pp.95-105. On Blackboard
Group 3
Drucker, Johanna., “The Virtual Codex from Page to E-space”, in Siemens, R. & S.Schreibman (eds) A Companion to Digital Literary Studies, Oxford, Blackwell, 2007. http://www.philobiblon.com/drucker/
Week 4 Cultures of Mobility
All
Poster, Mark, “Digitally Local Communications: Technologies and Space” Prepared for the Conference on “The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections” Available at http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2004/Poster_webversion.doc
Group 1
Wilken, Rowan. “From Stabilitas Loci to Mobilitas Loci: Networked Mobility and the Transformation of Place” in Fibreculture Journal Issue 6 http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue6/issue6_wilken.html
Group 2
Soukup, C. E. “Magic Screens: Everyday Life in an Era of Ubiquitous and Mobile Media Screens” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 94th Annual Convention, 2008, San Diego, CA Available at http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p258857_index.html
Group 3
Meyrowitz, Joshua. “The Rise of Glocality: New Sense of Place and Identity in the Global Village” Prepared for the Conference on “The Global and the Local in Mobile Communication: Places, Images, People, Connections”
Available at http://www.fil.hu/mobil/2004/meyrowitz_webversion.doc
Week 5 From broadcast to podcast – personalisation and new media
All
Palmer, D., ‘The Paradox of User Control’ Paper presented at MelbourneDAC, the 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, May 19 – 23, 2003 http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/Palmer.pdf
Group 1
Manovich, L., The Language of New Media, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, pp. 36 – 44
Group 2
Rosen, C., The Age of Egocasting” The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society, Number 7, Fall 2004/Winter 2005, pp. 51-72. http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/7/rosen.htm
Group 3
McPherson, Tara. “Reload: Liveness, Mobility and the Web” in Chun, W. & Kennan, T., New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader, New York: Routledge, 2006, pp.199 – 208.
Week 6 Social Networking
All
boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. “Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship” in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11, 2007. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
Beer, D., “Social network(ing) sites.revisiting the story so far: A response to danah boyd & Nicole Ellison” Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13 (2008): 523
Week 7 Sharing culture: Peer to Peer, Open Source and Creative Commons
All
Vaidhyanathan, S., The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System, Cambridge: Perseus Books, 2004, pp. 1 – 23
Group 1
Goetz, Thomas (2003). ‘Open Source Everywhere’. WIRED. 11.11 November.http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.11/opensource.html
Group 2
Lawrence Lessig Explains Creative Commons
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=AWxyx5iYdvI
Group 3
Bauwens, M., “The Political Economy of Peer Production” in CTheory, 2005
http://www.ctheory.net/printer.aspx?id=499
Week 8 Networked Fictions: fandom, celebrity and law
All
Eric Faden, A Fair(y) Use Tale, Media Education Foundation, 2006 available at these video sites:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UycH2HvBRd4
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo
Group 1
Henry Jenkins, ‘Quentin Tarantino’s Star wars? : grassroots creativity meets the media industry’ in Convergence culture : where old and new media collide (New York New York University Press,2006): 131 – 168
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/1404792.pdf
Group 2
Regecca Tushnet, ‘Copyright Law, Fan Practices, and the Rights of the Author’, in Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, ed Jon Grey et al, (New York, New York University Press 2007): 60 – 71
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/1404795.pdf
Group 3
Nelson Pavlosky ‘Barbie in a Blender – A celebration of free speech and fair use’, FreeCultureOrg, (2004):
http://freeculture.org/blog/2004/07/12/barbie-in-a-blender-a-celebration-of-free-speech-and-fair-use/
Week 9 Immersive Effects: Communication and Second Life
All
Quaranta, Domenico, “Life and Its Double”, http://www.0100101110101101.org/home/portraits/essay.html
Group 1
Clover, Joshua., “Edge of the Construct”, from The Matrix, BFI Modern Classics, London, British Film Institute, 2004, pp.6-28.
Group 2
Laurel, Brenda., “The Nature of the Beast”, from Computers As Theatre, Menlo Park, Addison-Wesley, 1993, pp.1-28.
Group 3
Tofts, D., “The World Will Be Tlön”: Mapping the Fantastic on to the Virtual”, Postmodern Culture, 13, 2, 2003. http://www.swinburne.edu.au/sbs/media/staff/tofts/essays/borges.pdf
Week 10 The Recording of Everyday Life
All
van Dijck, J., “Mediated memories: personal cultural memory as object of cultural analysis” Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol. 18, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 261–277 Available at http://www.swinmc.net/documents/vandijck.pdf
Group 1
Dean, Gabrielle. “Portrait of the Self” M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture 5.5 (2002) Available at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0210/Dean.php
Group 2
Gye, Lisa. “Picture This: the Impact of Mobile Camera Phones on Personal Photographic Practices” Continuum, Volume 21, Issue 2 June 2007, p. 279 – 288. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/ftinterface~content=a778345675~fulltext=713240930
Group 3
“Life Caching” at Trendwatchers.com
http://www.trendwatching.com/trends/LIFE_CACHING.htm
Week 11 Digital aesthetics Forum
Guest speakers to be advised
Reading TBA
Week 12
To be advised
