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A. Required Books Available at UCSB Bookstore

Links in this section are to descriptions on the Amazon.com site. (Policy statement on links to commercial sites.) Required books are also on 1-day reserve at the library.

1. Albert Borgmann, Holding on to Reality: The Nature of Information at the Turn of the Millennium (U. Chicago Press, 1999)
2. Joseph H. Boyett and Henry P. Conn, Workplace 2000: The Revolution Reshaping American Business (Penguin, 1991)
3. Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Community, Vol. 1 of The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (Blackwell, 1996)
4. Timothy Druckrey, Electronic Culture: Technology and Visual Representation (Aperture, 1996)
5. Steven Johnson, Interface Culture: How New Technology Transforms the Way We Create and Communicate (HarperEdge, 1997)

B. Required Course Reader Available at the Alternative Copy Shop

1. Jean Baudrillard, "Requiem for the Media," in For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (Telos, 1981)
2. Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin, Remediation: Understanding New Media (MIT Press, 1999), excerpt
3. Cleanth Brooks, "The Heresy of Paraphrase," in The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1947, 1975)
4. William H. Davidow and Michael S. Malone, The Virtual Corporation (1992), excerpt
5. Johanna Drucker, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, 1909-1923 (1994), excerpt
6. Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman, "Orality and the Problem of Memory," in Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (Johns Hopkins UP, 1998), excerpt [book is also on 1-day reserve at the library]
7. Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, excerpt
8. Marshall McLuhan, "The Medium is the Message" and "Media Hot and Cold" (1964)
9. Paul Rand, A Designer's Art (Yale UP, 1985), excerpt
10. Peter Senge, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (Doubleday, 1990), excerpt
11. Jonathan Steur, "Defining Virtual Reality," Journal of Communication 42 (1992): 79-90
12. Jan Tschichold, The New Typography (1928), excerpt
13. Warren Weaver, "Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1949), excerpt

C. Required Online Works

1. Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)
2. Daniel Chandler, "The Transmission Model of Communication" (1994)
3. Roger Chartier, The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France (1987), pp. 158-67, 180-82
4. William Gibson, Agrippa (A Book of the Dead) (1992)
5. Andy Goldsworthy's "land art" (photos and selected text) (password needed; restricted to students in this course)
6. Matt Kirschenbaum, "A White Paper on Information" (1998)
7. Stuart Moulthrop (U. Baltimore), "The Shadow of an Informand: An Experiment in Hypertext Rhetoric" (1992-94)
8. Suck (Web site)
9. Stuart Moulthrop and Sean Cohen, The Color of Television (hypertext fiction in progress)
10. Plato, from Phaedrus (do a search in the text and begin reading at the sentence: "Shall we discuss the rules of writing and speech as we were proposing?")
11. Claude E. Shannon, "The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (1948), pp. 3-6
12. Willam Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" (1798)
13. Shoshanna Zuboff, excerpts on the "overview" and "vision" enabled by computing from In the Age of the Smart Machine
14. Chronicle of Higher Education article on Joshua Berman's online Turing Game ("An On-Line 'Quiz Show' Uses Anonymity of the Internet to Reveal Biases," Sept. 15, 1999); browse the Turing Game (and play it if you wish)

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D. From Nature to Information (Classes 1-4)

1. Class 1
   • Michael E. Hobart & Zachary S. Schiffman, "Information Present and Past," in Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution (Johns Hopkings UP, 1998), pp. 1-8 [book is also on 1-day reserve at the library]
2. Class 3
   • Julian H. Scaff, "Art & Authenticity in the Age of Digital Reproduction"

E. Speaking, Writing, Reading, Informing (Classes 5-7)

1. Class 6
   • Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think" (1945)
   • Ted Nelson, Prophet of Hypertext
     • Ted Nelson, "What is Literature" (from Literary Machines, 1987)
     • "Ted Nelson and Xanadu" (Electronic Labyrinth)
     • "The Xanadu Ideal" (from the Xanadu Australia page; a synopsis of some of the ideas of the early hypertext theorist-prophet, Ted Nelson)
     • Jim Whitehead, "Orality and Hypertext: An Interview with Ted Nelson" (1996)
     • Ted Nelson's Home Page
   • Michael Joyce's Home Page
   • Stuart Moulthrop's Home Page(s)
   • Stuart Moulthrop, "Rhizome and Resistance: Hypertext and the Dreams of a New Culture," in George P. Landow, ed., Hyper/Text/Theory (Johns Hopkins UP, 1994), pp. 299-319
   • Feed (Steven Johnson, Editor-in-Chief)
   • Scott Stebelman, "Hypertext and Hypermedia: A Select Bibliography"
   • Alan Liu, Voice of the Shuttle Technology of Writing Page & Cyberculture Page
   • Some of Alan Liu's pages experimenting with or thinking about the concept of the link:
     • Voice of the Shuttle (click on the first link in the quote, "And there is 'the voice of the shuttle' in Sophocles' Tereus")
     • "Should We Link to the Unabomber? An Essay on Practical Web Ethics" (1995)
     • Lyotard Auto-Differend Page

F. Communicating (Classes 8-9)

1. Class 8
   • Mick Underwood, "Transmission Models -- Criticism" (1999)
2. Class 9
   • Hans Magnus Enzensberger, "Constituents of a Theory of the Media" [in Druckrey]

G. Mediating (Classes 10-11)

1. Class 10
   • Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, "Media, Genealogy, History" (1999) (review of Bolter and Grusin's Remediation: Understanding New Media) (EBR: Electronic Book Review)

H. Seeing/Designing (Classes 12-15)

1. General Resources:
   • Image + Narrative (Pt. 1) (Winter 1997/98 issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review)
   • Image + Narrative (Pt. 2) (Summer 1998 issue of EBR: Electronic Book Review)
   • J. Hillis Miller (U. California, Irvine), "Graphic or Verbal: A Dilemma" (1998) (on the Victorian "multimedia" novel; drawn in part from Miller's Black Holes, 1999)
   • Anne Morgan Spalter, The Computer in the Visual Arts (Addison-Wesley, 1999)
2. Class 13
   • Richard A. Lanham, "Digital Rhetoric and the Digital Arts," in The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts (Chicago UP, 1993)
   • Martina E. Linnemann, "Out is In, Off the Page/ Now Online - Cool" (1997-98) (on Ronald Sukenick and the typographical novel in the age of digital media) (EBR: Electronic Book Review)
3. Class 15
   • Mitchell Stephens, The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word (Oxford UP, 1998), pp. 176-203 (on the "new video and "complex seeing")

I. Working (Classes 16-17)

1. General Resources:
   • Palinurus: The Academy and the Corporation -- Teaching the Humanities in a Restructured Age (Alan Liu)

J. (Simulating) Living (Class18)

1. Class 18
   • Bill Nichols, "The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems" (1996) [in Druckery]

K. Beyond the Information Society (Information and Difference) (Classes 19-20)

1. BBC News, "Bridging the Digital Divide" (Oct. 14, 1999)

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