T 1/20
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Introduce Project 1: The Email Narrative
Discuss syllabus |
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FIrst day of class, Inauguration Day. |
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Discuss the Email Narrative |
Assessment
Jello Page Design, Setting up a Site in Dreamweaver, Beginning Banner Techniques, |
Obtain a USB drive (a.k.a "flash" or "thumb" drive).
Come in ready to talk about 3 movies, TV shows, books, stories, narrative song lyrics, etc. in which the action is primarily verbal rather than physical.
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clusterng |
| T 1/27 |
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Logging into Webx, Obtain books, Read Murray Chapter 1 |
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exporting site information in DW, Freytag's Pyramid,fears of new media, hopes for continuities with narrative traditions, sensation vs. imagination, fragmentation vs. integration, constructive of meaning vs. destructive of meaning, addictive media vs. empowering media |
| R 1/29 |
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Murray Chapter 2 |
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epistolary novel, multiform stories, story pleasure (diachronic, synchronic), active audience, fan fiction (textual poaching), lexia |
| T 2/3 |
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Read Murray Chapter 3 |
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Plot, Desire, Duration, Framing.
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| R 2/4 |
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continue with Murray Chapter 3 |
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additive forms (e.g. "photoplays"), Four Properties of Digital Environments (PEPS): Procedural (Elza), Participatory, Spatial, Encyclopedic, scripting the interactor |
| T 2/10 |
Studio session for Project 1 |
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| W 2/11 |
Project 1 due |
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| R 2/12 |
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T 2/17
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Read Murray Chapter 4 |
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"aesthetics of the medium" vs. four "essential properties" (PEPS)? immersion liminal objects, liminal trance, fourth wall (theater,) immersion vs. arousa, spectacle |
| R 2/19 |
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| T 2/24 |
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| R 2/26 |
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| T 3/3 |
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| R 3/6 |
Studio Session for Project 2 |
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| M 3/9 |
Project 2 due |
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| T 3/10 |
Introduce Parody, commentary on Project 2 |
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| R 3/12 |
workshop Visual Verbal Projects |
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| T 3/17 |
Spring Break |
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| R 3/19 |
Spring Break |
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| T 3/24 |
workshop Visual Verbal Projects |
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| R 3/26 |
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| T 3/31 |
Parody Project |
Downloading Pages to Edit,
Tracing Images in Dreamweaver |
Come in with a plan for the Parody Project=== |
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parody vs. satire vs. hacking |
| R 4/2 |
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| T 4/7 |
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Bring in an example of an online parody or satire. |
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| R 4/9 |
Studio Day for the Parody/Facade Project. |
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| M 4/13 |
Parody Project due |
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| T 4/14 |
Introduce The Essay, Exam, and the ReVision Project
Workshop |
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Commentary due on Parody/Facede Project |
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| R 4/16 |
Workshop |
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| T 4/21 |
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read Murray's chapters 7(pg 185) and 10 (pg. 273). |
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agency vs.
interactivity .vs
authorship
stories vs. games
games as symbolic dramas |
| R 4/23 |
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Read Liu, Introduction and Epilogue |
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"managerial/ professional/ technological intelligentsia" [Professional-Managerial Class (PMC)], cultural capital, culture (as in "the culture of information"), information, literature vs. the literary, knowledges, knowledge work vs. humanistic knowledge (writing),ethos of unknowing |
| T 4/28 |
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Read Bolter/Grusin: Introduction and Chapter 1 |
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immediacy
hypermediacy
remediation |
| R 4/30 |
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Read Manovich 213-243 |
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narrative and database, syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic (see diachronic/synchonic), new media narrative |
| T 5/5 |
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Read Manovich 244-285 |
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| R 5/7 |
Essay due
Prepare for exam |
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| F 5/15 (Final Exam Week) |
Final exam, 4:00 |
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