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COGR 275 Theories of Digital Culture (Section ID 515029)
Prof. Brian Goldfarb

Resources and Media Examples

Week 1 (Sept23): Introduction: approaches to digital culture

• wikipedia on freemasonry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemason
• John Simon, "every icon" http://www.numeral.com/appletsoftware/eicon.html
• http://www.hokwang.com.tw/images/ufi.jpg

Week 2 (Sept 30 –may have to reschedule) Computer network’s military legacy

• The Living Internet: http://livinginternet.com/
• Internet Histories: http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/
• "On Guare: the story of Sage" (film): http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=06855
• "The information Machine" (film) http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=InformationM
• "Logic by Machine" (film) http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=logic_by_machine_1

Week 3 (Oct 7)  Cybernetics, post-humanism, cyborg politics.

Week 4 (Oct 14) (dis)ability and technology

• "guide dogs for the blind" (film) http://movies05.archive.org/0/movies/GuideDog1950/GuideDog1950_256kb.mp4
• "All out for Victory" (film) http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=18845
• Temple Grandin:
  • thinking in pictures: http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html
  • Visual Thinking Sensory Problems and Communication Difficulties http://www.autism.org/temple/visual.html
  • Grandin looking at portfolio http://www.idahoasg.org/member/2001-12-07/images/BenNTemple.JPG
  • Kill them with Kindness http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/mcdonalds/grandin1.html
  • squeezechair project
• Rebus and Symbols:
  • autism poster: http://www.autism-biomed.org/autism.jpg
  • Rebus Development project http://www.widgit.com/widgitrebus/
  • symbol-based web browser http://www.widgit.com/products/webwise/browser.htm
  • Symbol World Stories http://www.symbolworld.org/teachers/stories.htm
  • Meldreth Manor School http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/meldreth/
  • Majaky (lighthouse) http://www.majaky.com/
  • How it is (symbols for feelings and child protection) http://www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/howitis/#why_developed
• Web Access
  • Bobby http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp
  • Designing more usable sites: http://www.trace.wisc.edu/world/web/
  • Web access standards (section 508) http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Content&ID=12
• Prosthetics
  • Cochlear Implants: http://www.zak.co.il/deaf-info/old/ci-opinions.html
  • Deep Brain Stimulator: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/neuroscience/treat/movement/tremors.htm
  • The 'K' Sonar Cane - http://www.batforblind.co.nz/index.htm
  • seeing with sound: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/etumble.htm
• Looking for images:
  • WebSeek content-based search: http://www.ctr.columbia.edu/webseek/
  • Ditto Visual Search engine: http://www.ditto.com/
  • Picsearch http://www.picsearch.com/
  • list of image search engines: http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/Images_Search/
  • the Internet archive: http://www.archive.org/
  • american memory collection http://memory.loc.gov/
  • image searching tips
  • The amazing picture machine http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm

Week 5 (Oct 21) Digital-Visual Pedagogy, Power/Knowledge

• America's Army http://www.americasarmy.com/
• Second Life https://secondlife.com/about/
• Accross the Board http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/Cardboard/Board/A/acrosstheboard/acrosstheboard.htm
• EdTec670 http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec670/
• Harlem Live http://www.harlemlive.org/main.html
• Harlem Live writing arts page http://www.harlemlive.org/writing-art/
• Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/content/stories/index.cfm?key=245
• plugged-in http://www.pluggedin.org/about/
• Libraries for the Future http://www.lff.org/programs/
• more on New Dehli Kiosks
• Gyandoot http://gyandoot.nic.in/
• Playing to win: http://www.playing2win.org/
• Harlem live: http://www.harlemlive.org/
• Edutopia article: http://www.glef.org/php/article.php?id=Art_992&key=188
• Video Machete: http://www.videomachete.org/home.html
• Blazers: http://www.blazeryouth.org/
• Computer access center: http://www.cac.org/
• ReachLA http://www.reachla.org/home.html
• OnRamp: http://www.onramparts.org/projects.html
• Wiretap http://www.wiretapmag.org/
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries Presents (Bust down the Doors)
• Warren Sack "Conversation Map"
• Cite Seer forward citation
• PlumbDesign’s Visual Thesaurus http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/index.html
• Jay Bultor Story Space software
• Michael Joyce's Reach, a fiction and Sister Stories
• On the Night of Mr Melvin's Murder
• Nino Rodriguez, Face Value, http://www.mindspring.com/~ninor/
• Heath Bunting, ReadMe
• Simon Biggs, The Great Wall of China
• Sabina Daley , The Kiss

Week 6 (Oct 28) Online Identity and Virtual Community, Cyberanthropology

• Cystic-L and Flanagan
• Mongrel: http://www.mongrelx.org/
• Prema Murthy's Mythic Hybrid: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mythichybrid/index.html and E-Race: http://www.icp.org/osd/preview/net/murthy/
• Ramesh Srinivasan 's village Voice http://www.impaktonline.nl/villagevoice.html and Tibal Peace: http://tribalpeace.org/
• Deb King's Gender f: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/mythichybrid/index.html
• PBS Digital Divide series web site: http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/index.html
• USC- MIT Conference: "Race in Cyberspace" http://cms.mit.edu/race/exhibition.html
• FALLING THROUGH THE NET II: Defining the Digital Divide http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/digitaldivide/
• John Tonkin, Elective Physiognomies, Meniscus http://www.johnt.org/meniscus/
• Nancy Burson, The Human Race Machine :http://www.nancyburson.com/human1.html http://www.geneart.org/burson.htm
• Prema Murthy's BindiGirl : http://www.thing.net/~bindigrl/
• Guillermo Gomez-Pena, CyberVato http://riceinfo.rice.edu/projects/CyberVato/
• Waking Hours http://www.roguish.com/web/WakingHours/index.html and http://www.roguish.com/web/WakingHours/index.html
• Alison Cornyn and Sue Johnson 360 degrees: the American criminal justice system http://www.360degrees.org/
• Sissyfight 2000 http://www.sissyfight.com/
• zapatistas in cyberspace: http://www.eco.utexas.edu:80/Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/zapsincyber.html
• Poetic Dialogues 1.0 : http://www.turbulence.org/Works/yucef/index.html
• Preternatural: http://www.liquiddna.com/praet1.html
• Race in Cyberspace conference: http://cms.mit.edu/race/about.html
• Alex Rivera's Invisible America: http://www.invisibleamerica.com/index2.html
• Remote Labor Systems: http://www.cybracero.com/

 

Week 7 (Nov 4) Online Identity II: Queer and gendered cyberspace

• CNN on Zero Knowledge: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9902/11/browsanon.idg/
• freedom's Websecure software http://www.freedom.net/products/websecure/index.html
• zero knowledge press release: http://www.zeroknowledge.com/en/news/pressrel_00/rel_oct_23_00.php
• the empty closet: http://ec.gayalliance.org/
• stonewall: http://www.stonewall.org.uk/stonewall/
• VNS matrix's bitch mutant manifesto: http://www.aec.at/meme/symp/contrib/vns.html
• VNS matrix: http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/VNS/TEXT/PINKMANI.HTM
• old boys network: http://www.obn.org/inhalt_index.html
• gash girl http://www.sysx.org/gashgirl/
• mimi nguyen's worse than queer: http://www.worsethanqueer.com/
• white lesbian name generator: http://www.lustydevil.com/lesboname.html

 

Week 8 (Nov 11) Global networks, local cultures  (digital corporate culture, and network activism)

Week 9 (Nov 18) Intellectual property. Information economy. New forms of property/new forms of sharing

Week 10  (Dec 2) Privacy, security, anonymity surveillance

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Other topics:

Ubiquitous computing: digital devices and everyday life

Global archives, database as cultural form

The digital screen:  developments in cinema and visual culture

Games and play

Translation/manipulation of data as cultural production

Censorship and regulation of online content; pornography and the protection of children.

Digital divide

Digital theories of mind. AI’s impact on culture