Computers and New Media Reading List

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See the discussant list (to appear) to see the schedule of presentations about the readings.

Approximate Schedule (Subject to Change)

class 1: (Jan. 17)
Class Overview, Introductions, Discussion of Basic Issues, Methods, and Technology

class 2: (Jan. 19)
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Chapters 1-3, Marshall McLuhan

class 3: (Jan. 24)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Introduction, Chapter 1)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 2)

class 4: (Jan. 26)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 3)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 4)

class 5: (Jan. 31)
Project Work Day

class 6: (Feb. 2)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 5)
Project Discussion Team Forming, Discussion of Ideas/Roles

class 7: (Feb. 7)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 6)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 7)

class 8: (Feb. 9)
Due: Project Reports Phase I (Topic Selection, Issues, Approach, Timeline, and Work Allocation)

class 9: (Feb. 14)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 8)
Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapters 9-10)

class 10: (Feb. 16)
Project Work Day

class 11: (Feb. 21) Beyond Pencil and Paper

"Reading and Writing Fluid Hypertext Narratives", Polle Zellweger, Anne Mangen, and Paula Newman, from Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2002, pp. 45-54.
"Only touching the surface: creating affinities between digital content and paper", Paul Luff et al., from Proceedings of ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004, pp. 523-532.

class 12: (Feb. 23) Blogs and Wikis

"Blogging as social activity, or, would you let 900 million people read your diary?", Bonnie Nardi et al., from Proceedings of ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004, pp. 222-231.
"Foucault@Wiki: first steps towards a conceptual framework for the analysis of Wiki discourses", C. Pentzold, and S. Seidenglanz, from Proceedings of the 2006 international symposium on Wikis, pp. 59-68.

class 13: (Feb. 28) Audio & Music

class 14: (March 1) Video

"Context Perception in Video-Based Hypermedia Spaces", Teresa Chambel and Nuno Guimaraes, from Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2002, pp. 85-94.
"Hypervideo expression: experiences with hyper-hitchcock", Frank Shipman, Andreas Girgensohn, and Lynn Wilcox, from Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2005, pp. 217-226.

class 15: (March 6) Games

"The social side of gaming: a study of interaction patterns in a massively multiplayer online game", Nicolas Ducheneaut and Robert Moore, from Proceedings of ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004, pp. 360-369.
"The multimedia challenges raised by pervasive games", Mauricio Capra et al., from Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2005, pp. 89-95.
"The Rhetoric of Video Games", Ian Bogost, from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008, pp. 117-140.

class 16: (March 8)
Project Reports Phase II (Design, Rationale, Current Development Status)

class 17: (March 20) Virtual Characters

"Interacting with Virtual Characters in Interactive Storytelling", Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, and Steven J. Mead, from Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2002, pp. 318-325.
"Managing Interaction Between Users and Agents in a Multi-agent Storytelling Environment", Mark Riedl, C.J. Saretto, and R. Michael Young, from Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents, 2003, pp. 741-748.

class 18: (March 22) Robots & Media Frameworks

"Interactive humanoids and androids as ideal interfaces for humans", Hiroshi Ishiguro, from Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2006, pp. 2-9.
"The Concept of Interactivity - revisited", Jens Jensen, from Proceedings of UXTV '08, 2008, pp. 129-132.
"Directions for hypertext research: exploring the design space for interactive scholarly communication", John Leggett and Frank Shipman, from Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2004, pp. 2-11.

class 19: (March 27) Digital Rights Management

"Digital rights management for content distribution", Qiong Liu et al., from ACSW Frontiers '03 Proceedings of the Australasian information security, 2003.
"Comparing the Usage of Digital Rights Management Systems in the Music, Film, and Print Industry", Marc Fetscherin and Matthias Schmid, from Proceedings of Int. Conference on Electronic Commerce 2003, pp. 316-325.

class 20: (March 29)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Preface, Chapter 1)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 2)

class 21: (April 3)
Project Reports Phase III (Initial Implementation of all Components)

class 22: (April 5)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 3)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 4)

class 23: (April 10)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 5)

class 24: (April 12)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 6)

class 25: (April 17)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 7)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 8)

class 26: (April 19)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 9)
The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 10)

class 27: (April 24)
Project Reports, Final (Presentation and Demonstration)

class 28: (April 26)
Project Reports, Final (Presentation and Demonstration)