REQUIRED

• John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”
• David Scheck, Andrew L. Shapiro, and Steven Johnson, “Technorealism. Get Real! A Manifesto from a New Generation of Cultural Critics”
• Negativland, “Changing Copyright”
• Negativland, "Negativland's Tenets of Free Appropriation"
• metac0m, “What is Hacktivism? 2.0”
• John Whalen, “The Mayhem is the Message”
• Tracey Logan, “File-sharing to Bypass Censorship”

RECOMMENDED

• Brian Still, “Hacking for a Cause”
• Sandor Vegh, "Hacktivists or Cyberterrorists? The Changing Media Discourse on Hacking"

NO READINGS (everything pushed down a day)

digital identities, part 1: general

REQUIRED

• Ju Gosling, “My Not-so-secret Life as a Cyborg”
• Karla Ptacek and Helen Varley Jamieson, “Writing 4 Cyberformance”
• Lisa Nakamura, Introduction to Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet
• Allucquère Roseanne Stone, “Introduction: Sex, Death and Machinery, or How I Fell in Love with my Prosthesis”

RECOMMENDED

• Angus Leech and Sylvie Parent, "The Stage is Everywhere: A Multimedia Musing about Distributed Online Performance"
• Lisa Nakamura, “Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction”
• Barclay Barrios, “Of Flags: Online Queer Identities, Writing Classrooms, and Action Horizons”

digital identities, part 2: gender

REQUIRED

• Ellie Gibson, "Lady Gamers Get Voice Changer"
• GDC Q&A: "Women's Advocate, Industry Hero, Sheri Graner Ray"
• Richard Cobbett, "Writing A ‘Girls In Games’ Article"
• "Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center General Survey Results Graphs"
• "Gender Gap Alive and Well Online"
• Laura L. Sullivan, " Cyberbabes: (Self-) Representation of Women and the Virtual Male Gaze"

RECOMMENDED

• Kristine Blair and Pamela Takayoshi, "Introduction: Mapping the Terrain of Feminist Cyberscapes"
• Pamela Takayoshi, "Complicated Women: Examining Methodologies for Understanding the Uses of Technology"
• Linda Leung, ”Where Am I and Who Are ‘We’?: Self-representation and the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity on the Web”
• Colleen Reilly, “Sexualities and Technologies: How Vibrators Help to Explain Computers”

digital identities, part 3: online communities

REQUIRED

• John Perry Barlow, "Is There a There in Cyberspace?"
• Julian Dibbell, “A Rape in Cyberspace”
• netgrrrl and chicoboy26, " What Am I Bid?: Reading, Writing and Ratings at eBay.com"

RECOMMENDED

• Constance Steinkuehler and Dimitri Williams, “Where Everybody Knows Your (Screen) Name: Online Games as "Third Places"
• Kacper Poblocki, “The Napster Network Community”
• Henry Jenkins, "National Politics within Virtual Game Worlds: The Case of China"

digital visual rhetorics: general

REQUIRED

• "Visual Rhetoric and Strategies of Persuasion"
• Meredith Badger, “Visual Blogs”
• Misadventures of Dick and Jane
• Jim Andrews, "On Lionel Kearns"

RECOMMENDED

• Carolyn Handa, Introduction to Visual Rhetoric in a Digital World
• Mary E. Hocks, "Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments"
• Craig Stroupe, “Visualizing English: Recognizing the Hybrid Literacy of Visual and Verbal Authorship on the Web”
• Anne Wysocki, “The Multiple Media of Texts: How Onscreen and Paper Texts Incorporate Words, Images, and Other Media”
  
  

digital visual rhetorics: interfaces

REQUIRED

• Don’t Click It
• Christina Wodtke, "Eat Me, Drink Me, Push Me: In Which the Subtle Arts of the Interface are Examined"
• Alistair Dabbs, “Interface Structure”

RECOMMENDED

• Selfe and Selfe, “The Politics of the Interface: Power and its Exercise in Electronic Contact Zones"
• Wysocki and Jasken, “What Should be an Unforgettable Face"
• Patricia Sullivan, “Practicing Safe Visual Rhetoric on the World Wide Web"
• Leah M. Reeves et al., "Guidelines for Multimodal User Interface Design"

exploring new media, part 1: general

REQUIRED

• "Opening the Space"
• Scott McCloud, "Follow that Trail"
• Daniel Anderson, “Prosumer Approaches to New Media Composition: Consumption and Production in Continuum”

RECOMMENDED

• Anne Frances Wysocki, “Opening New Media to Writing: Openings & Justifications”
• Madeline Sorapure, Madeline, “Five Principles of New Media: Or, Playing Lev Manovich”
• Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, “Introduction: The Double Logic of Remediation”
• Mark Zeltner, “New Media and the Slow Death of the Written Word”

exploring new media, part 2: creating new media

REQUIRED

• Web Style Guide, Chapter 8: Multimedia
• Jakob Nielsen, “Flash: 99% Bad”
• Flash: 99% Good, “The Future of Flash”

RECOMMENDED

• Cheryl Ball, “Show, Not Tell: The Value of New Media Scholarship”
• Anne Wysocki, “awaywithwords: On the Possibilities in Unavailable Designs”

REQUIRED

• Charles Mann, “New and Improved! A User's Guide to Your Genetically Modified Future”
• Stelarc
• CyborgMommy
• Kevin Warwick, “Cyborg Morals, Cyborg Values, Cyborg Ethics”
• Celebrity Cyborgs
• Cyborg Name Decoder

RECOMMENDED

• Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-feminism in the Late Twentieth Century”
• Michelle Sidler, “The Not-so-distant Future: Composition Studies in the Culture of Biotechnology”
• Danielle Nicole DeVoss, “re-reading cyborg(?) women: The Visual Rhetoric of Images of Cyborg (and Cyber) Bodies on the World-Wide Web”
• Bruce Grenville, “The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture”
  

REQUIRED

• "The 10 Coolest Technologies You've Never Heard Of"
• "Visions of the 21st Century"
• Bill Joy, "Why the Future Doesn't Need Us"
• Bruce Sterling, “Dumbing Down Smart Objects"
• Found: Artifacts from the future, from Wired Magazine
  

REQUIRED

• Elizabeth Losh, “Digital Rhetoric: Genres, Disciplines, and Trends”
• "Digital Rhetoric" (program transcript)
• Bill Gates, “Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere”
• Jay David Bolter, “Introduction: Writing in the Late Age of Print”

RECOMMENDED

• Kathleen Welch, “Electrifying Classical Rhetoric: Ancient Media, Modern Technology, and Contemporary Criticism"
• Carolyn Handa, "Letter from the Guest Editor: Digital Rhetoric, Digital Literacy, Computers, and Composition"
• James Zappen, “Digital Rhetoric: Toward an Integrated Theory”
  

REQUIRED

• Bruce Sterling, “A Short History of the Internet”
• Anthony Anderberg, “History of the Internet and Web”
• Stuart Moulthrop, “A Subjective Chronology of Cybertext, Hypertext, and Electronic Writing"
• Pew Internet and American Life, "Internet: The Mainstreaming of Online Life"
• John Battelle, "The Birth of Google"

RECOMMENDED

• Pew Internet and American Life, “America's Online Pursuits: The Changing Picture of Who's Online” (pages 1-9)
• Billie Walhstrom and Chris Scruton, “Constructing Texts/Understanding Texts: Lessons from Antiquity and the Middle Ages”
  

REQUIRED

• Mary Sellen, “Information Literacy in the General Education: A New Requirement for the 21st Century”
• Adam Penenberg, “Searching for The New York Times”
• United States of America Federal Trade Commission, “Re: Commercial alert complaint requesting investigation of various Internet search engine companies for paid placement and paid inclusion programs”
• Danny Sullivan, “Buying Your Way In: Search Engine Advertising Chart”

RECOMMENDED

• Madeleine Sorapure, Pamela Inglesby, and George Yatchisin, “Web Literacy: Challenges and Opportunities for Research in a New Medium”
• Nicholas Burbles, “Rhetorics of the Web: Hyperreading and Critical Literacy”
• Michelle Sidler, “Web Research and Genres in Online Databases: When the Glossy Page Disappears”

REQUIRED

• Laura J. Gurak, “Cyberliteracy: Toward a New Internet Consciousness”
• "Digital Literacy Checklist"
• Association of College and Research Libraries, "Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education"
• Johndan Johnson-Eilola, “Living on the Surface: Learning in the Age of Global Communication Networks”

RECOMMENDED

• Bonnie Nardi and Vicki L. O’Day, “A Matter of Metaphor: Technology as Tool, Text, System, Ecology”
• Lester Faigley, “Literacy After the Revolution”
• Christina Haas, “On the Relationship between Old and New Technologies”
  

REQUIRED

• Jim Porter, “Why Technology Matters to Writing: A Cyberwriter’s Tale” (PDF)
• Crawford Kilian, ““Effective Web Writing”
• Constance J. Petersen, “Writing for a Web Audience”
• Geoff Hart, “Content, Structure, and Relevance: The Ploy's the Thing”
• Scott Berkun, “The Role of Flow in Web Design”
• Scott McCloud, "10 Suggestions for First-Time WebComics Artists"

RECOMMENDED

• Web Style Guide, Chapter 6: “Editorial Style”
• Todd Taylor and Irene Ward, Introduction to Literacy Theory in the Age of the Internet
• Ilana Snyder, Introduction to From Page to Screen: Taking Literacy into the Electronic Era

REQUIRED

• Scott McCloud, "I Can't Stop Thinking"
• Chip Scanlan, “The Web and the Future of Writing”
• James R. Kalmbach, “Publishing Before Computers”
• John Dujay, “Will ‘E-books’ Make Paper Ones Obsolete?”
• Pew Internet and American Life Project, “Content Creation Online”

RECOMMENDED

• Mark Zeltner, “New Media and the Slow Death of the Written Word”
• Scott Lloyd DeWitt, “The Current Nature of Hypertext Research in Computers and Composition Studies: An Historical Perspective”
• Johndan Johnson-Eilola and Amy C. Kimme Hea, “After Hypertext: Other Ideas”
  

REQUIRED

• Laura Gurak, Smiljana Antonijevic, Laurie Johnson, Clancy Ratliff, and Jessica Reyman, "Introduction: Weblogs, Rhetoric, Community, and Culture"
• Kevin Kelly, "We Are the Web"
• John Hockenberry, “The Blogs of War”
• "Online Weblog Leads to Firing"
• "How Not to Get Fired Because of Your Blog"

RECOMMENDED

• Matthew D. Barton, “The Future of Rational-critical Debate in Online Public Spheres”
• David Huffaker, "The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to Promote Literacy in the Classroom"

REQUIRED

• Daily Show: Martin, "Trendspotting: Social Networking"
• Albert-László Barabási, "The Physics of the Web"
• Chad Lowe, Alida Pask, and John Vickery, "The Small-World Problem: Six Degrees, Friendster, Mr. Micawber and Kevin Bacon"
• Molly Wood, "Five Reasons Social Networking Doesn't Work"
• "School Crackdown on MySpace"
• Barry Levine, "Bill to Ban Social Sites in Schools Moves to Senate"

RECOMMENDED

• danah boyd and Jeffrey Heer, “Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster"
• Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, and Heinrich Schwarz, "It's Not What You Know, It's Who You Know: Work in the Information Age"
  

REQUIRED

• Clive Thompson, “Game Theories”
• John Seely Brown and Douglas Thomas, "You Play World of Warcraft? You're Hired!"
• "Daily Show on Violent Video Games"
• Entertainment Software Rating Board, "Game Rating and Descriptor Guide"
• Stephen Colbert interviews Steven Johnson
• James Paul Gee, Introduction to What Video Games have to Teach Us about Learning and Literac
• James Paul Gee, Conclusion to What Video Games have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
  

RECOMMENDED

• Laurie Taylor, "When Seams Fall Apart: Video Game Space and the Player"
• Viviane Gal, Cécile Le Prado, Stéphane Natkin, and Liliana Vega, "Writing for Video Games"

REQUIRED

• Cathy Camper, “A Note from the Future”
• Wikipedia: Digital Divide
• “Perspectives on the Digital Divide”
• Pew Internet and American Life, "Who's Not Online"
• Howard Besser, “The Next Digital Divide”
• Anthony Walton, “Technology Versus African-Americans”

• Jonathan Sterne, “The Computer Race Goes to Class: How Computers in Schools Helped Shape the Racial Topography of the Internet”
• Jeffrey T. Grabill, “Utopic Visions, the Technopoor, and Public Access: Writing Technologies in a Community Literacy Program”
• “Spanning the Digital Divide: Understanding and Tackling the Issues--2. International and Domestic Digital Divides”
• National Telecommunications Information Administration
  “Falling Through the Net: A Survey of the Have Nots in Rural and Urban America” (1995)
• National Telecommunications Information Administration
  “Falling Through the Net II: New Data on the Digital Divide” (1998)
• National Telecommunications Information Administration
  “Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide” (1999)
• National Telecommunications Information Administration
  “Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion” (2000)
• National Telecommunications Information Administration
  “A Nation Online: How Americans are Expanding Their Use of the Internet” (2002)
• National Telecommunications Information Administration
  “A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age” (2004)

REQUIRED

• “Disability Statistics and Facts”
• W3C, “Scenarios of People with Disabilities Using the Web”
• WebAIM, “Introduction to Web Accessibility”
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
  Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines, Chapter 3: "Accessibility"

RECOMMENDED

• John Slatin, “The Art of ALT: Toward a More Accessible Web”
• Donald E. Zimmerman, Michel Lynn Muraski, and Michael D. Slater, ”Taking Usability Testing to the Field”
• Christi-Anne Postava-Davignon, Candice Kamachi, Gregory Kushmerek, et al., “Incorporating Usability Testing into the Documentation Process”

N/A

REQUIRED

• Philip Elmer-DeWitt, John Heilemann, and David S. Jackson, “The Great Web Wipeout”
• Troy Wolverton, “Pets.com Latest High-profile Dot-com Disaster”
• Joseph D’Hippolito, “Dot Bomb”
• Museum of E-Failure

RECOMMENDED

• Peter Fingar, Harsha Kumar, and Tarun Sharma, "21st Century Markets: From Places to Spaces"
• Marcia J. Bates, "After the Dot–bomb: Getting Web Information Retrieval Right This Time"

REQUIRED

• Clive Thompson, "EverQuest: 77th Richest Country"
• David Barboza, "Boring Game? Hire a Player"
• David Barboza, “Ogre to Slay? Outsource It to Chinese”
• James Lee, "From Sweatshops to Stateside Corporations, Some People are Profiting Off of MMO Gold"

RECOMMENDED

• Edward Castronova, "On Virtual Economies"
  

REQUIRED

• “Crash Course in Copyright”
• Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins, "Bound by Law? Tales from the Public Domain"

RECOMMENDED

• Karla Saari Kitalong, "A Web of Symbolic Violence"
• Tharon Howard, "Who 'Owns' Electronic Texts?"
• Lawrence Lessig, "The Internet Under Seige"
• World Intellectual Property Organization, "COPYRIGHT"

REQUIRED

• Bernard Schütze, "Samples from the Heap: Notes on Recycling the Detritus of a Remixed Culture"
• Lawrence Lessig, "Who Owns Culture?"
• William Gibson, “God’s Little Toys: Confessions of a Cut and Paste Artist”
• MSMDX (Media Streams Metadata Exchange), "Overview"

RECOMMENDED

• Anne-Marie Boisvert, “On Bricolage: Assembling Culture with Whatever Comes to Hand”
• Dmitri Siegel, "Designing Our Own Graves"
• Lev Manovich, “Who is the Author? Sampling / Remixing / Open Source”
• Dànielle Nicole DeVoss and Jim Porter, “Why Napster Matters to Writing: Filesharing as a New Ethic of Digital Delivery”
• William McGeveran and William W. Fisher, “Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age”