1. THE CULTURES OF INFORMATION
   (pages on the contexts and forms of information culture/media from the Middle Ages to Y2K)
   • Early Information, Middle Ages to 1900 (the media, technologies, and cultures of early information, including such topics as the association of early literacy with accounting and other "information" uses, early newspapers, periodicals, libraries, engravings, photography, telegraphy)
   • New Media, 1900-1950 (film, photography, recordings, telephone, radio, TV, photocopying)
   • The Digital Revolution
     • History of Computing (A. Liu)
     • Digital and Online Media (description of underlying technologies; introduction of some technical and analytical concepts that help differentiate digital media from other media)
     • Computers in Business and Education (history of the introduction of computing in the workplace and the academy) (A. Liu)
     • Digital Entertainment
     • Digital Text (on the word-processing revolution and the transplantation of past and present texts to digital media)
     • Computing Against the Grain
       • Countercultural computing
       • Online Communities
       • Digital Politics (L. Ellinghausen)
       • Cybergender
       • Minority Cultures and the Information Revolution
         • Weaving Webs: Native American Literature, Oral Tradition, Internet (Chris Schedler)
       • Information around the World
     • Digital Law and Ethics
   • Postindustrialism
     • Business 2000 (description of the structures, philosophies, and cultures of business since the 70s)
     • The Idea of "Knowledge Work" (A. Liu)
     • The "New Economy"
   • Postmodernism
   • Globalism
   • Technologism (theory and sociology of technology) (V. Willoughby)



2. THE CULTURES OF LITERATURE
   (pages on the contexts of literature, literary technologies, and the intersection of literature with information culture)
   • Oral literatures and Cultures, Past and Present (C. Pasternack)
   • Manuscripts and their Makers, Past and Present
   • Early Print Culture
   • Public Discourse, 1700-1800
   • The Making of the "Author"
   • The Making of the "Reader" (including the issue of mass audiences)
   • Literature and the New Media, 1900-1950
   • "Theory," 1920-2000
   • Literature and the Digital Revolution
     • Hypertheory and Hypertext
     • Hyperfiction
     • Hyperpoetry
     • The Word and the Image
     • Virtual Realities and Imaginative Literature (J. Jones)
     • Cyberpunk (J. Jones)
     • "Zine" Culture
     • The Fate of the Library
     • The Aesthetics of Information
   • Literature in the Academy, 1850-2000
   • "National," "Minority," and "Global" Literatures
   
   
   
3. CRUXES: VITAL CROSSINGS BETWEEN THE CULTURES OF INFORMATION AND LITERATURE
   (pages spotlighting selected issues formed where information and literary/artistic cultures intersect in ways that challenge each other)
   • Censorship (W. Warner)
   • Intellectual Property
   • The Role of the Intellectual/Artist
   • Literacy and Information Literac



4. PARADIGMS IN CHANGE: EXHIBITS IN THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION CULTURE
   (colorful museum-like exhibits that use text and multimedia to demonstrate the evolving relationship of literature to information)
   • History of the "Page"
   • What is an Author?
   • What is "Reading"?
   • The Idea of the "Archive"
   • The Canon and the Web
   • What is Cool? (A. Liu)



5. TRANSCRIPTIONS COURSES
   • Overview of Courses



6. RESOURCES
   • Teaching with Information Technology
   • Resources for Web-Autorhing
   • Related Programs and Courses Elsewhere