STS 319 Schedule

Texts

You will need to purchase five texts for this course:

Chorost, Michael. Rebuilt: My Journey Back to the Hearing World. Boston & New York: Mariner, 2005.
Crowley, David, and Paul Heyer, eds. Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 5th ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2007. (No, that's not a typo.)
Greenfield, Adam. Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing. Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2006.
Standage, Tom. The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers.. New York: Berkley Books, 1998.
Tufte, Edward R. The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within. 2nd ed. Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 2006.

Schedule of Assignments and Readings

All readings are to be completed before class on the day listed. Always bring the day's texts with you to class.

Wed, 30 Aug

Wed, 6 Sep
(1) Subscribe to the class email list (sts319-barndollar@lists.cwrl.utexas.edu) following the instructions from class (help available at http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/?q=node/25)
(2) Read Dennis Baron, "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technology," online at http://www.english.uiuc.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/essays/pencils.htm
(3) Read Harold Innis, "Media in Ancient Empires," in Communication in History, pp. 23-30
(4) Read Walter Ong, "Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media," in Communication in History, pp. 66-72

Mon, 11 Sep
(1) Learning Record Parts A.1 & A.2 DUE at 3:30p
(2) Read Elizabeth Eisenstein, "The Rise of the Reading Public," in Communication in History, pp. 95-103
(3) Read Harvey J. Graff, "Early Modern Literacies," in Communication in History, pp. 104-12
(4) Read John B. Thompson, "The Trade in News," in Communication in History, pp. 113-16

Wed, 13 Sep
(1) Read Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet, pp. vii-104

Mon, 18 Sep
(1) Service Learning Project groups and sites to be determined at beginning of class
(2) Read Standage, The Victorian Internet, pp. 105-213

Wed, 20 Sep
(1) Read James W. Carey, "Time, Space, and the Telegraph," in Communication in History, pp. 150-55
(2) Read Paul Virilio, "Speed and Information: Cyberspace Alarm!" from Reading Digital Culture, pp. 23-27, available online through eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666
(3) Read Edward R. Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, entire

Mon, 25 Sep
(1) Read Claude Fischer, America Calling, pp. 1-32, available online through eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666

Wed, 27 Sep
(1) Service project contracts due by beginning of class
(2) Read Claude Fischer, America Calling, pp. 33-59, available online through eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666
(3) Sample LRO observations due at beginning of class

Mon, 2 Oct
(1) Pre-modern media group presentations in class
(2) Listen to at least 20 minutes of programming from National Public Radio, available on air at 90.5 FM or online at KUT.org
(3) Read Stephen Kern, "Wireless World," in Communication in History, pp. 207-10
(4) Read Susan J. Douglas, "Early Radio," in Communication in History, pp. 210-17

Wed, 4 Oct
(1) Pre-modern media group presentations in class
(2) Read Christopher Sterling & John M. Kittross, "The Golden Age of Programming," in Communication in History, pp. 217-23
(3) Read Michele Himles, "Radio Voices," in Communication in History, pp. 223-30
(4) Read Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Radio," in Communication in History, pp. 234-40

Mon, 9 Oct
(1) Read William Boddy, "Television Begins," in Communication in History, pp. 244-53
(2) Read Edmund Carpenter, "The New Languages," in Communication in History, pp. 254-59
(3) Read Mitchell Stephens, "Television Transforms the News," in Communication in History, pp. 276-82
(4) Read "Two Cultures—Television vs. Print," in Communication in History, pp. 283-95

Wed, 11 Oct
(1) Complete multimedia training in CIT lab by today
(2) Read James Beniger, "The Control Revolution," in Communication in History, pp. 301-11
(3) Read James Essinger, Jacquard's Web, Chapters 5, 6, & 16, available via eRes athttp://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666

Mon, 16 Oct
(1) Read Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, pp. 19-48, available via eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666

Wed, 18 Oct
(1) Midterm LRO due at beginning of class
(2) Read Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media, pp. 49-61, available via eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666

Mon, 23 Oct
(1) Midterm LRO moderations in class

Wed, 25 Oct
(1) Read Scott McCloud, "Time Frames," available via eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666
(2) Read Christine Rosen, "The Image Culture," in The New Atlantis (Fall 2005) 10: 27-46, online at http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/10/rosen.htm

Mon, 30 Oct
(1) Digital storytelling and storyboarding session in class today, with Coco Kishi

Wed, 1 Nov
(1) Read Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holmevik, MOOniversity, chapters 1 and 3, available via eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666

Mon, 6 Nov
(1) Read Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace," in Reading Digital Culture, pp. 199-213, available via eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666
(2) Read Sherry Turkle, "Who Am We?", in Reading Digital Culture, pp. 236-50, available via eRes at http://reserves.lib.utexas.edu/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=3666
(3) Read Michael Chorost, Rebuilt, pp. 1-48

Wed, 8 Nov
(1) Read Chorost, Rebuilt, pp. 49-101

Mon, 13 Nov
(1) Multimedia project storyboard due at beginning of class
(2) Read Chorost, Rebuilt, pp. 102-57

Wed, 15 Nov
(1) Read Chorost, Rebuilt, pp. 158-208

Mon, 20 Nov
(1) Read Adam Greenfield, Everyware, pp. 1-65

Wed, 22 Nov
NO CLASS TODAY

Mon, 27 Nov
(1) Contemporary IT presentations in class
(2) Read Greenfield, Everyware, pp. 66-130

Wed, 29 Nov
(1) Contemporary IT presentations in class
(2) Read Greenfield, Everyware, pp. 131-95

Mon, 4 Dec
(1) Contemporary IT presentations in class
(2) Read Greenfield, Everyware, pp. 196-261

Wed, 6 Dec
(1) Digital multimedia pojects due at beginning of class
(2) Course evaluations in class

Fri, 8 Dec
(1) Final LRO due by 3:00p

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