Being Digital August W 8.29 logging on_ F 8.31 Nicholas Negroponte, "The DNA of Information" and "An Age of Optimism" September M 9.3 No Class Labor Day W 9.5 A History of Computers (explore different entries) Historic Computer Images F 9.7 How Microprocessors Work M 9.10 Bruce Sterling, "A Short History of the Internet" W 9.12 w3history (especially 1989-93) F 9.14 Lab New Media Classroom, Susquehanna 2112 M 9.17 Lab New Media Classroom, Susquehanna 2112 Writing Space W 9.19 Walter Ong, 5-15, 31-36 F 9.21 Ong, 49-57, 69-74, 75-77 M 9.24 Exercise One Ong, 78-101 W 9.26 Ong, 101-116 F 9.28 Ong, 117-138 October M 10.1 Lab New Media Classroom, Susquehanna 2112 W 10.3 Ong, 139-155 Information Space F 10.5 Steven Johnson, 11-41 An Atlas of Cyberspaces M 10.8 Exercise Two Johnson (cont.) W 10.10 Johnson, 42-75 F 10.12 Johnson (cont.) Apple's 1984 Superbowl spot (requires QuickTime plug-in and a fast connection) M 10.15 Johnson, 76-105 W 10.17 Johnson, (cont.) Interface Hall of Shame Remediation F 10.19 Paper One Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, 3-15 M 10.22 Bolter and Grusin, 21-50 W 10.24 Bolter and Grusin, (cont.) F 10.26 Bolter and Grusin, 53-62 M 10.29 Bolter and Grusin, 105-112, 115-130 W 10.31 Bolter and Grusin, 147-158, 185-194 November F 11.2 Bolter and Grusin, 197-210 M 11.5 Lab New Media Classroom, Susquehanna 2112 Futures of the Book W 11.7 Laura Miller, "The Digital Reader" The Electronic Literature Organization F 11.9 Matthew Kirschenbaum, "Hypertext" (to be distributed) M 11.12 Exercise Three Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl Jason Nelson, "Cube" and "Moving" (requires Flash) W 11.14 Jackson, Patchwork Girl Poems That Go (requires Flash) F 11.16 Jackson, Patchwork Girl UbuWeb M 11.19 Paper Two Jackson, Patchwork Girl BeeHive W 11.21 TBA F 11.23 No Class Thanksgiving M 11.26 Jackson, Patchwork Girl Jackson, "Stitch Bitch" (optional) W 11.28 TBA F 11.30 TBA Computing and the Humanities December M 12.3 Jerome McGann, "Radiant Textuality" Romantic Circles Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture W 12.5 Morris Eaves, "Behind the Scenes at the William Blake Archive" The William Blake Archive Dickinson Electronic Archives F 12.7 John Unsworth, "The Scholar in the Digital Library" The Temporal Modelling Project Storyboard (requires Flash) M 12.10 Project Due logging off_ Final Exam: Friday, 14 December 1:30-3:30

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MATTHEW G. KIRSCHENBAUM DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MK235@UMAIL.UMD.EDU