Computers and New Media Reading List

class 2: (Jan. 17) Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Chapters 1-3, Marshall McLuhan

class 3: (Jan. 22) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Introduction, Chapter 1)

class 4: (Jan. 24) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 2)

class 5: (Jan. 29) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 3)

class 6: (Jan. 31) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 4)

class 7: (Feb. 5) Project Reports Phase I (Topic Selection, Issues & Approach)

class 8: (Feb. 7) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 5)

class 9: (Feb. 12) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 6)

class 10: (Feb. 14) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 7)

class 11: (Feb. 19) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 8)

class 12: (Feb. 21) Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapters 9-10)

class 13: (Feb. 26) Studies of Current Interactive Media

• "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.

• "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.

class 14: (Feb. 28) Project Work Day

class 15: (March 4) Project Reports Phase II (Design & Rationale)

class 16: (March 6) Wikis

• "On ranking controversies in wikipedia: models and evaluation, B.-Q. Vuong et al., from Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining 2008, pp. 171-182.

• "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 17: (March 18) 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 18: (March 20) Music

• "Supporting musical composition by externalizing the composer's mental space", Shigeki Amitani and Koichi Hori, from Proceedings of ACM Creativity and Cognition 2002, pp. 165-172.

• "MobiLenin combining a multi-track music video, personal mobile phones and a public display into multi-user interactive entertainment", Jurgen Scheible and Timo Ojala, from Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2005, pp. 199-208.

class 19: (March 25) Audio

• "Echology: an interactive spatial sound and video artwork", Meghan Deutscher et al., from Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2005, pp. 937-945.

• "Thunderwire: a field study of an audio-only media space", D. Hindus et al., from Proceedings of the 1996 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, pp. 238-247.

class 20: (March 27) 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 21: (April 1) Games

• "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 22: (April 3) Project Work Day

class 23: (April 8) Project Reports Phase III (Initial Implementation)

class 24: (April 10) Teaching New Authors

• "Looking BK and Moving FD: Toward a Sociocultural Lens on Learning with Programmable Media", Paula K. Hooper, from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008, pp. 123-142.

• "Heroes, Villains, Magicians, ...: Dramatis Personae in a Virtual Story Creation Environment", Ana Paiva, Isabel Machado, and Rui Prada, from Proceedings of ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2001, pp. 129-136.

class 25: (April 15) 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 26: (April 17) 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.

• "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 28: (April 23) Project Reports, Final (Presentation and Demonstration)