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

Seminar Meetings Schedule (This is a tentative schedule of readings and topics. Individual texts may be added or removed and weekly themes may be changed based on the research interests of the enrolled participants. Some possible alternative topics are listed below week 10. Additional readings in the bibliography)

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

• Philip E. Agre, “Cyberspace as American Culture,” Science as Culture 11(2) (available online through UCSD library catalog)

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

• Paul Edwards, The Closed World, Chapters 1,2, 5 & 6 (1-73, 147-207)
• Vannevar Bush “As We May Think” http://www.csi.uottawa.ca/~dduchier/misc/vbush/awmt.html
• Joseph Weisenbaum (author of Eliza) interview: http://www-tech.mit.edu/V105/N16/weisen.16n.html

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

• Jean-Pierre Dupuy “The Mechanization of the Mind” Introduction http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/i6920.pdf and chapters 2 & 3 (reserves)
• Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto," The Cyberculture Reader http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
• Tziznz Terranova, “Post-Human Unbounded,” The Cyberculture Reader (reserves)
• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, "Becoming-Intense, Becoming Animal, Becoming Imperceptible..." in A Thousand Plateaus (233-309).
  Memories of a Naturalist (233-237) (setting up the
  discussion)
  Memories of a Bergsonian (237-239) (source)
  Memories of a Sorcerer, I (239-243) (on the question
  of becoming)
  Memories of a Spinozist, I (253-256) (source)
  Memories of a Spinozist, II (256-260) (power-affect)
  Memories of a Molecule (272-286)(against metaphores)
  Memories and Becomings, Points and Blocks (291-298)
  (majority-minority)
• Jody Berland, “Cultural Technologies and the ‘Evolution’ of Technological Cultures,” in The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory (reserves)
• Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (reserves)

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

• Ingunn Moser and John Law, “Making Voices: New Media Technologies, Disabilities, and Articulation” in Digital Media Revisited, eds, Liestol, Morrison and Rasmussen
• Elizabeth Cartwright and Brian Goldfarb, “On the Subject of Neural and Sensory Prostheses,” in The Prosthetic Impulse, ed. Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra.
• Patricia A. Dunn and Kathleen Dunn De Mers: "Reversing Notions of Disability and Accommodation: Embracing Universal Design in Writing Pedagogy and Web Space," Kairos, Volume 7, Issue 1 online: http://english.ttu.edu/kairos/7.1/binder2.html?coverweb/dunn_demers/index.html
• Chris Abbott, "Writing the Visual" pages 31-46, in Silicon literacies : Communication, Innovation and Education in the Electronic Age, ed., Ilana Snyder
• Hannu Eerikäinen “Love Your Prosthesis Like Yourself: 'Sex', Text and the Body in Cyber Discourse” http://www.utu.fi/hum/mediatutkimus/affective/proceedings.html

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

• M. Ratto, R. B. Shapiro, T. M. Truong, and W. G. Griswold, ``The ActiveClass Project: Experiments in Encouraging Classroom Participation'', Computer Support for Collaborative Learning 2003, Kluwer, pp. 477-486, June 2003. (http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/~wgg/Abstracts/activeclass-cscl03.pdf)
• Grinter & Palen article "Instant Messaging in Teen Life" (http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/Papers/grinter-palen-IM.pdf)
• Judith Babbits  "Stereographs and the Construction of a Visual Culture in the 19^th Century” in Memory Bytes (course reserves)
• Jon Lanestedt, “The Challenge of Digital Learning Environments in Higher Education,” in Digital Media Revisited
• Andrew Morrison, “From Oracy to Electracies” in Digital Media Revisited
• Nancy Kaplan,  “Literacy Beyond Books: Reading When all the World’s a Web” in The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory

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

• Shawn Wilbur, “An Archeology of Cyberspaces: virtuality, community, identity,” The Cyberculture Reader
• Auturo Escobar, “Welcome to Cyberia,” The Cyberculture Reader
• Susan Zickmund, “Approaching the Radical Other,” The Cyberculture Reader
• Johan Stratton, “Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture,” The Cyberculture Reader
• Lisa Nakamura, “Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction,” Cybertypes
• Lisa Nakamura, “Race In/For Cybersace: Internet and the Dislocation of Citizenship,” The Cyberculture Reader

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

• David Phillips, “Negotiating the Digital Closet: Online Pseudonymity and the Politics of Sexual Identity” Information Communication, Society 5 (3)
• Allucquère Rosanne Stone, “Will the Real Body Please Stand Up" http://www.molodiez.org/net/real_body2.html
• Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, chapter 8 (reserves)
• Sadie Plant, “On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations,” The Cyberculture Reader

Suggested:

• Joshua Gamson, “Gay Media, Inc: Media Structures, the New Gay Conglomerates, and Collective Sexual Identities,” CyberActivism
• Maria Fernandez and Faith Wilding, “Situating Cyberfeminisms,” Domain Errors
• Anne Balsamo “ The Virtual Body in Cyberspace” and “Feminism for the Incurably Informed,” Technologies of the Gendered Body

Week 8 (Rescheduled for Mon Nov 22, 9-12) Global networks, local cultures  (digital corporate culture, & network activism)

• Ross, Andrew. “Hacking Away at the Counterculture,” The Cyberculture Reader.
• Wyatt Galusky, "Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet and the Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement", in Michael MacCaughey and Michael Ayers, CyberActivism
• Tiziana Terranova, "Demonstrating the Globe: Virtual Action in the Networked Society," in Virtual Globalization, ed., David Holmes.
• Geert Lovink, “An Insider’s Guide to Tactical Media,” and “Information Warfare: from Propaganda to Culture Jamming,” Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture  
• Steven McLaine, “Ethnic Online Communities: Between Profit and Purpose,” CyberActivism

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

• Lisa Gittleman “Media, Materiality and the Measure of the Digital” in Memory Bytes
• James Boyle, “A Politics of Intellectual Property: Environmentalism for the Net?” Duke Law Journal vol 47:87
• Philip E. Agre , “Peer-to-Peer and the Promise of Internet Equality” Communications of the ACM 46(2), 2003

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

• John McGrath, Loving Big Brother
• Philip E Agre, “Beyond the Mirror World: Privacy and the Representational Practices of Computing,” in Agre and Rotenberg, eds. Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
• Philip E Agre, “Cryptography, Secrets and the Structuring of Trust,” Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
• Simon G Davies, “Re-Engineering the Right to Privacy: How Privacy Has Been Transformed from a Right to a Commodity,” Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
• Rohan Samarajiva, “Interactivity as Though Privacy Mattered,” Technology and Privacy: The New Landscape
  
  

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Other topics:

Ubiquitous computing: digital devices and everyday life

• Paul Dourish, “Seeking a Foundation for Context Aware Computing”
• Makeda Best, “Relocating Site: The Web and Urban Life”

Global archives, database as cultural form

The digital screen:  developments in cinema and visual culture

• David Rodowick, Reading the Figural: or Philosophy after the New Media

Games and play

• Ted Friedman “Making Sense Of Software” 1993 http://www.game-research.com/art_making_sense_of_software.asp  or another version: http://www.duke.edu/~tlove/simcity.htm  or  http://eserver.org/cyber/friedman/default.html
• Justine Cassell and Henry Jenkins, From Barbie to Mortal Kombat
• Markku Eskelinen and Ragnhild Tronstad, "Video Games and Configurative Performances," in Mark J. P.  Wolf and Bernard Perron, eds The Video Game Theory Reader (New York: Routledge, 2003) 195-220.
• Bo Kampmann- "Playing and Gaming" http://www.gamestudies.org/0301/walther/

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