01.04.2003 

introduction

• topic: course overview
• assignment: 
  • sign up for a section
  • buy the required text
  • put up a home page on the web; and,
  • subscribe to the course list: <fdm20c-subscribe@yahoogroups.com>

03.04.2003 

hypertext

• reading:
  • [02] bush, as we may think
  • buckland, emanuel goldberg, electronic document retrieval, and vannevar bush's memex
• lecture: html

08.04.2003 

hypertext

• reading:
  • [08] engelbart, augmenting human intellect
  • [11] nelson, a file structure for the complex
  • [17] excerpts from the software catalog
• lecture: html or powerpoint

10.04.2003 

the world-wide web

• reading:
  • [54] berners-lee et al., the world-wide web
  • berners-lee et al., hypertext transfer protocol
  • berners-less et al., hypertext markup language
• lecture: html or powerpoint

15.04.2003 

networks & rhizomes

• reading:
  • [27] deleuze and guattari, from a thousand plateaus
  • latour, on actor-network theory: a few clarifications (1 of 2)
  • latour, on actor-network theory: a few clarifications (2 of 2)
  • to find these two readings by bruno latour, follow the URLs above to the nettime archives. now look in the archives for nettime-I; within the nettime-I archives look in the archives for Jan. 98; the texts to read are the two messages from Latour in the Jan. 98 archives.
• lecture: html or powerpoint

17.04.2003 

artificial intelligence

• reading:
  • [03] turing, computing machinery and intelligence
  • walker, how i was played by online caroline
  • sack, response to walker
  • walker, response to sack
• lecture: html or powerpoint

22.04.2003 

artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction

• reading:
  • [24] weizenbaum, from computer power and human reason
  • [41] suchman, from plans and situated actions
  • suchman, human/machine reconsidered
• lecture: html or powerpoint

24.04.2003 

video games

• reading:
  • [34] turkle, video games and computer holding power
  • jenkins, 'complete freedom of movement': video games as gendered play spaces
• lecture: html or powerpoint

29.04.2003 

prostheses

• reading:
  • [04] wiener, men, machines and the world
  • [13] mcluhan, from the galaxy reconfigured
  • [13] mcluhan, the medium is the message
• lecture: html or powerpoint

01.05.2003 

cyborgs

• reading:
  • [35] haraway, the cyborg manifesto
• lecture: html or powerpoint

06.05.2003 

midterm examination

08.05.2003 

computer-supported cooperative work

• reading:
  • [37] winograd and flores, using computers: a direction for design
  • [45] ehn and kyng, cardboard computers
• lecture: html or powerpoint

13.05.2003 

machines as machinations

• reading:
  • latour, how to write 'the prince' for machines as well as for machinations
• example: messages from example thread discussed in class
• example: incomplete actor-network composed from the first few messages
• lecture: html or powerpoint

15.05.2003 

computers as theater

• reading:
  • [38] laurel, from computers as theater
  • [22] boal, from theater of the oppressed
  • nakamura, race in/for cyberspace
• lecture: html or powerpoint

20.05.2003 

ownership

• reading:
  • [32] bagdikian, the endless chain
  • columbia journalism review who owns what?
  • the nation the big ten, jan. 7-14, 2002
  • mediachannel.org the media ownership chart
• lecture: html or powerpoint

22.05.2003 

surveillance

• reading:
  • [51] agre, surveillance and capture
• lecture: html or powerpoint

27.05.2003 

privacy

• reading:
  • lessig, the architecture of privacy
  • gandy, data mining in the post-9.11 environment
• lecture: html or powerpoint
• Map of online space due

29.05.2003

free software & open source

• reading:
  • [36] stallman, gnu manifesto
  • open source initiative, the open source definition
  • florian cramer, free software as collaborative text
• lecture: html or powerpoint

03.06.2003 

resistance

• reading:
  • [53] critical art ensemble, nomadic power and cultural resistance
  • indymedia, the independent media center's frequently asked questions
• lecture: html or powerpoint

05.06.2003 

course review

• Paper describing online space due.

11.06.2003 

final examination