Link to New Media and Lit Blogspace
Final Meta-media object projects
Lectures and Presentations:
Binary (Q Project lecture/presentation)
Edgar Allen Poe and Jillian Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace"
Leslie's "Apple: A Re-working of the Eve Myth"
External Links:
Representing the Body in Cyberfeminist Art
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English 250: New Media and Literature
Professor Jen Boyle T TR 10.30-12.00pm Office: Turner C 144 Phone: 6433 Email: jboyle@hollins.edu Office hours: Friday, 2-4 or by appt Course Blackboard site: Course Blog
REQUIREMENTS:
Weekly responses to discussion, blog forum (blog entries: at least once a week every student will post a reading response to the course blog. ) = 25%
Participation,
writing revisions, presentations of secondary materials and project = 15%
Two media analyses (see below) = 30%
Final summative
project = 35%
ADDITIONAL
EXPECTATIONS AND CONTRACTS:
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All viewpoints or positions on the material are welcome
(all!), but they must be offered with respect and in the spirit of healthy
feedback and argumentation. All positions and viewpoints expressed should
relate to the course material and concepts.
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You must participate in all writing revisions and
workshops to receive full credit. As you will come to know, I strongly emphasize revision. Thus, the writing and new media exercises for this class are as
much about the challenges of this process as they are about what you end up
with as a final draft .
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Since revision is a process I value, I will offer
opportunities for us to revise , discuss, and workshop writing assignments
together (in individual conferences with me and as a class). The main objective
of this class is to take risks and to investigate with expansive energy the
concepts and texts encountered.
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The final project for this course will allow you to
move across disciplines and genres and to experiment with various lines of
critical, experimental, and creative expression.
Some tips for a
good experience:
Come to class
Follow all steps
to a given assignment, and make use of all resources – resources in class
and outside of class
Don’t come in
late too often
Don’t miss a
class and then ask me to reanimate it in detail or spirit on email
Don’t resist
taking risks that allow you to experiment with a new way of writing, thinking,
or creating
Feel free to
call me “Jen” or “Professor Boyle” (but resist flattering or derogatory
epithets beyond these)
Come to office
hours to talk about assignments , course material, or projects
Respectfully
challenge readings and arguments that emerge in the class (mine included)
A further note about this course: We will be looking at a variety of literary and non-fiction texts in various forms, including conventional printed texts and electronic texts and artifacts. Many of the texts that we will read, discuss, and write about are only available in on-line or computer environments. Thus, it is a requirement of the course that you plan for regular computer access in order to participate in discussion and complete assignments. There will be some scheduled “laboratory” time where you can spend time learning specific software programs and working with computers on campus. However, you will also need to have computer access outside of these planned activities (I will provide an overview during the first week of class of the facilities and software available on campus).
Texts:
Printed Texts: If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler (1979) by Italo Calvino (bookstore) Tropic of Orange by Karen Tei Yamashita (bookstore)
Reserve materials: “The
Garden of the Forking Paths” (1941) by Jorge Luis Borges
“What is New Media? Eight
Propositions” by Lev Manovich
“The Message is the Medium”
by Marshall McLuhan
Patchwork Girl by
Shelley Jackson
“The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin” by
William S. Burroughs
“Prose
and Anticombinatronics” by Italo Calvino
“Time Frames” (excerpted
from Understanding Comics) by Scott
McCloud
Excerpts, Narrative
as Virtual Reality
Required on-line materials: SEE INDIVIDUAL UNITS AND CLASS SESSIONS BELOW
Assignments:
blog entries: at least once a week every student will post a reading response to the course blog.
Two shorter new media analyses: one of these will require an analysis of one of the “literary” texts we have read; one will be an analysis that enacts in some creative or analytical form the principles of the design or text being critiqued
Final summative project: More to come!
Haptic: a journal for new media writing and criticism at Hollins University.
Thoughts on
Plagiarism and Collaboration (in class)
Schedule:
Unit One: “Hyper”/Interactive–Textuality,
“New” Media, and Digital Culture
: 2.2:
: 2.7/2.9: FIELD TRIP TO HOLLINS CAMERA OBSCURA (LOCATED JUST OPPOSITE BOTETOURT, SMALL BLDG UNDER STAIRS)
: 2.14/2.16
: 2.21/2.23
: 2.28/3.2
: 3.7/3.9
Unit two: Code,
Text, Image, Interface
: 3.14/3.16
: 3.21/3.23 SPRING
BREAK
: 3.28/3.30
: 4.4/4.6
Unit three:
Networks and Emergent Environments
: 4.11/4.13
: 4.18/4.20
:4.25/4.27
: 5.2/5.4
:5.9
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