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TUESDAY |
THURSDAY |
| WEEK 2 |
8/29 Digital media and information networks
Be sure to have read: (1) Assorted authors, “The Singularity and Human Destiny (PDF)," 2006. From the magazine The Futurist. |
8/31 Hand-coding HTML: Text, links, images
Be sure to have read: (1) Bill Joy, “Why the future doesn't need us.” (PDF or HTML). Originally appeared in Wired Magazine in April 2000. (2) Albert Einstein's four letters to President Roosevelt about the atomic bomb. |
| WEEK 3 |
9/5 Utopian and dystopian views of technology
Be sure to have read: (1) Fred Turner, "How digital technology found Utopian ideology: Lessons from the first Hacker's conference," Critical Cybercultures Reader, 2006. |
9/7 Aaron in Austin. Open lab.
Be sure to have read: (1) Allen Varney, “Lifegame 2.0: The ubiquitous always on game of the future,” from The Escapist, July 11, 2006. |
| WEEK 4 |
9/12 Work hard. Have Fun. Make History. Make Money.
Be sure to have read: (1) Adrienne Massanari, "Dot-coms and cyberculture studies: Amazon as a case study," Critical Cybercultures Reader, 2006. Also: Jeremy Donald will explain the concept of Metadata and what it means for your on-line work. |
9/14 Introduction to Dreamweaver
Be sure to have read: (1) Thomas Friedman, "While I Was Sleeping," Excerpt from The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century, 2006. London: Penguin Books. (49 pages -- available in e-reserves.)
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| WEEK 5 |
9/19 “Oh crap! You mean I'm competing with knowledge workers in Bangalore?” -- Graduating into a flat world.
Be sure to have read: (1) Thomas Friedman, "The Ten Forces that Flattened the World," Excerpt from The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-First Century, 2006. London: Penguin Books. (149 pages – available in e-rserves.)
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9/21
Photoshop and image manipulation
Be sure to have read: (1) “Chapter 1. Process” in Lynch, P. J., & Horton, S. (2001). Web style guide: basic design principles for creating web sites (2nd ed.). New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. (2) “Chapter 2. Interface Design” in the same text. |
| WEEK 6 |
9/26 Creating site maps and idea maps with Mindjet Pro
Be sure to have read: (1) “Chapter 3. Site Design” in Lynch, P. J., & Horton, S. (2001). Web style guide: basic design principles for creating web sites (2nd ed.). New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. You can also download and experiment with a trial version of Mindjet Mindmanager Pro. |
9/28 Intermediate Dreamweaver
Be sure to have read: (1) David Silver and Alice Marwick, "Internet studies in a time of terror," Critical Cybercultures Reader, 2006. |
| WEEK 7 |
10/3 Principles of visual communication
Be sure to have read: (1) “Chapter 4. Page Design” in Lynch, P. J., & Horton, S. (2001). Web style guide: basic design principles for creating web sites (2nd ed.). New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press. |
10/5 Principles of visual communication
Be sure to have read: (1) Howard Rhengold, "Chapter 7. Smart mobs, the power of the mobile many" in Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, 2003. pp. 157-182. Cambridge, MA: Perseus. [e-reserves only] |
| WEEK 8 |
10/10 Group discussion
Be sure to have read: (1) Matthew Hector, “iMob,” excerpt from The Escapist, August 1, 2006.
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10/12 Advanced Dreamweaver
Be sure to have read: Graham Lawton, “The new incredibles: Enhanced Humans,” excerpt from The New Scientist, May 13, 2006.
[e-reserves and Trinity on-line holdings] |
| WEEK 9 |
10/17 The human-computer interface / web usability
Be sure to have read: (q) Neal Stephenson, "Interface Culture," excerpt from In The Beginning... Was the Command Line, 1999. (pp. 46-60). New York: Avon Press. |
10/19 Advanced Dreamweaver
Take-home exam distributed |
| WEEK 10 |
10/24 CSS and web standards
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10/26 Virtual environments
Be sure to have read: (r) Neal Stephenson, excerpts from Snow Crash. |
| WEEK 11 |
10/31 Virtual environments
Be sure to have read: (s) Mark Wallace, “Anonymity is not enough,” The Escapist, February 28, 2006. and (t) Anthony Fung, “ "Bridging cyberlife and real-life. A study of on-line communities in Hong Kong," Critical Cybercultures Reader, 2006.” Take-home exam due
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11/2 Exploring Second Life
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| WEEK 12 |
11/7 Virtual environments
Light reading to be assigned. |
11/9 Cyborg futures
Light reading to be assigned. |
| WEEK 13 |
11/14 Welcome to the Panopticon
Light reading to be assigned. Also: Jeremy Donald will talk about Geographical Information Systems in relation to the Panopticon. |
11/16 What next? WTF is Web 2.0?
A discussion. A game. |
| WEEK 14 |
11/21 Open lab :: Attendance not taken. |
11/23 Thanksgiving |
| WEEK 15 |
11/28 Presentation / Critique |
11/30 Presentation / Critique |
| WEEK 16 |
12/ 5 Presentation / Critique
(Last day of class) |
Final project due by 11:59 p.m. On December 12th. |
