HU520 The Rhetorics of a Print/Digital Culture

Mondays, 1:00-3:30, Walker 139


Hardcopy Syllabus: PDF format

Instructors:

Dickie Selfe <mail concerns to Dickie>

Bill Powers <wjpowers@mtu.edu>

Teaching Assistant:

Tracy Bridgeford <tbbridge@mtu.edu>

Electronic Discussion Formats

Netforum: http://www.hu.mtu.edu/cgi-bin/netforum/hu520/a/1

Email List: print-digital-l@mtu.edu

Synchronous Discussion "Isle of the Net":

http://maryann.hu.mtu.edu:7000
maryann.hu.mtu.edu 8888 (via MOO clients & Telnet)

The Useful"MESS" of these technologies.

Required Texts:

Chartier, Roger. (1992). The Order of Books.
NOTES: Selfe's, Ericsson, Taaffe
 
Deibert, Ronald. (1997). Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation.
NOTES: Selfe's Intro. & Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8.
Mayer's Chapters 5-8
 
Nunberg, Geoffrey. (1996). The Future of the Book.
NOTES:
Selfe's Intro. - Duguid,
Hayden's Intro - Nunberg,
Selfe's Debray, Bazin, Toschi, Landow,
Sheppard's NOTES on Debray, Bazin, Toschi, Landow
Selfe's Simone, Bolter, Joyce, Eco
Shabelnik's Simone, Bolter, Joyce, Eco

Other Readings/Class Library:

Aarseth, Espen. (1997). Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature.
Interactive Notes
 
Bolter, Jay David (1991).Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Notes
 
Dock, Julie B. (1996). The Press of Ideas: Readings for Writers
on Print Culture and the Information Age, Boston: Beford Books.
 
Eisenstein, Elizabeth. (1983). The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe.
Notes (Adobe PDF format)
 
Feenberg, Andrew. (1995).Alternative Modernity. The Technical Turn in Philosophy and Social Theory. Berkeley: U of California P, .
Notes
 
Johnson, Steven. (1997).Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate. San Francisco: Harper Edge.
Notes
 
Kalmbach, James. (1997). The Computer and the Page: Publishing, Technology,
and the Classroom.
Interactive Review(s) & Notes
 
Levy, Pierre. (1997). Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World
in Cyberspace.
 
Mattelart, Armand. (1996). The Invention of Communication.
 
McLuhan, Marshall. (1964). Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man.
 
O'Donnell, James. (1998). Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace.
Notes
 
Ong, Walter. (1982). Orality & Literacy: The Technologizing of
the Word.
 
Stefik, Mark. (1996). Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Notes
 
Tufte, Edward. (1990). Envisioning Information, Graphics Press.
Notes
 
Zboray, Ronald. (1997). A Fictive People.
 

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