Class Topics, Readings and Due Dates

• 01/24/08
  
  • Topic: Overview
    
• 01/29/08
  
  • Topic: Intro Oral Culture
    
  • Due: Ex 1: Of Books and Me
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Brookfield (1-22)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Plato
    
• 01/31/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Ong
    
  • Text (and RRRR): DiRenzo
    
• 02/05/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Havelock (19-62)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Homer; WM Sundiata
    
• 02/07/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Havelock (63-97)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Rheingold
    
• 02/12/08
  
  • Due: Ex 2: In Defense of Oral Culture
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Havelock (98-126)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Elbow
    
• 02/14/08
  
  • Topic: Forum 1: Memory and Knowledge in the Classical Era
    
  • Due: Oral Presentation Slot A
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Peer Presentations
    
• 02/19/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Baron
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Trithemius
    
• 02/21/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Brookfield (23-35; 46-53)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Eisenstein
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Birkerts
    
• 02/26/08
  
  • Due: Ex 3: In Defense of Manuscript Culture
    
  • Text (and RRRR): McLuhan (1-90)
    
• 02/28/08
  
  • Topic: Forum 2: Scarcity and Knowledge in the Medieval Era
    
  • Due: Portfolio 1
    
  • Due: Oral Presentation Slot B
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Peer Presentations
    
• 03/04/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Calvino (up to "6")
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Douglass
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Medieval Help Desk
    
• 03/06/08
  
  • Due: Paper 1 Presubmission
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Calvino (continued)
    
• 03/11/08
  
  • Due: Paper 1 Final
    
  • Text (and RRRR): McLuhan (91-180)
    
• 03/13/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): McLuhan (180-263)
    
• 03/27/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Orwell (selection)
    
• 04/01/08
  
  • Due: Ex 4: Of Books in Culture
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Orwell (selection)
    
• 04/03/08
  
  • Topic: Intro to Digital Culture
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Aarseth (Ch 1-4)
    
  • Due: Portfolio 2
    
• 04/08/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Aarseth (Ch 5; 8-9)
    
  • Text (and RRRR): WM Turkle
    
• 04/10/08
  
  • Topic: Forum 3: Conformity and Knowledge in the Mechanical Era
    
  • Due: Ex 5: Response to Kindle
    
  • Due: Oral Presentation Slot C
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Peer Presentations
    
• 04/15/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Kirschenbaum (Preface, Ch 1, Ch 2)
    
• 04/17/08
  
  • Topic: Paper 2: Thesis Workshop
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Kirschenbaum (Ch 3)
    
• 04/22/08
  
  • Text (and RRRR): Kirschenbaum (Finish)
    
  • Paper 2: Thesis / Blueprint
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Baio
    
• 04/24/08
  
  • Due: Paper 2 Draft
    
  • Due: Paper 2 Peer Review
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Doctorow (1-81)
    
• 04/29/08
  
  • Due: Portfolio 3
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Doctorow (82-206)
    
• 04/30/08
  
  • Due: Paper 2 Revision (Rescheduled from Apr 29)
    
• 05/01/08
  
  • Topic: Forum 4: Emergence and Knowledge in the Digital Era
    
  • Due: Oral Presentation Slot D
    
  • Text (and RRRR): Peer Presentations
    
• 05/08/08
  
  • Due: Ex 6: Of Books as Books
    
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