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CyberDuende

Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
Mar 10 2010
     » Update:  revised schedule — remainder of term here.
     
     » Note  additions from ELO Collection Vol. 1 (Inventory Items, each time we read)

 
 
 

M 15-Mar         Internet Invention Chp 8 (210-26): “The Bar (Street)”

      plus  Chp 7 — review “Office” (208-9), “Comment” (sections), & key topics (listed below).

 
 
The Hood Internet – Decalogue (The Hood Internet vs The 2000s) by hoodinternet

 
 
W 17-Mar         Internet Invention Chp 8 (227-43) — plus “Duende” (Ulmer’s blog).
 

          Due: Weekly Blog Entry (usual parameters, resume normal schedule.)

         
         
        R 18-Mar         Screening: Pulp Fiction (Dir. Tarantino, 1994)
         

         

         
         
         
        F 19-Mar         Jacqueline Goss, “Solstice” (2007)  →    Where is the past?

                        — Online Discussion: Films as Relays for Project. Prompt here. (Jump to comment.)
                 
                 
                        ? Discover short-film relay @ YouTube Screening Room
                 

               

                  Inventory Update Due Sat. PM (3 new items: Chp. 8, class film, personal media example)

                 

                     » Group Prep.  (for presentations): Discussion on blogs, over weekend.

                   
                   
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                  Electracy Rhetoric

                  Schedule / Update | Posted by Gary Hink
                  Feb 21 2010

                   
                   
                  M 22-Feb Internet Invention Chp 5: “Interface Impressions”

                      » focused reading: {pp.126-37; 140, 143, 150-4} — Key topics:
                      “structural portrait” (Barthes); style, gest/ure, “interface metaphor,” dialogue (from Plato to Web).
                       
                      Discuss: Part Three “Entertainment” (Assignment 2 p. 127)

                     
                     
                    W 24-Feb Internet Invention Chp 6 (155-77): “Cyberpidgin”

                        » focused reading: {pp.155-60; 166-9, 173-8}
                        — Key topics: “conductive logic” (pattern);
                        “cultural discourse” (Entertainment = language for globalization); “syncretism,” “cyberpidgin”;
                        “readymade”; “emblem”; “Alice” = “inventio”; “paleologic” (joke work)

                       
                       
                      R 25-Feb Screening:        Brick (Dir. Johnson, 2005; 110 min.)
                       
                       
                      F 26-Feb Attend UF Digital Assembly Conference: “Futures of Digital Studies”

                          Meet in 282 Reitz (1:55-3:10pm panel)

                              For preview Prof. Ulmer’s talk, see article: “The Learning Screen.”
                               
                              » Note: If you can not attend entire panel due to subsequent class,
                              choose another from the conf. schedule (Thurs/Fri). (Contact me about arrangements.)

                             
                            — E.C. opportunities:

                              attend an additional panel (Att/Part.); blog about one presenter (blog/Part.);
                              write a 500-word response to one presentation (Assign. credit).

                           
                          Due: Weekly Blog Entry (Friday PM)

                           
                           
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