Readings
Readings/Audio for discussion in class on Nov. 1:
“Sound Matters: Notes Toward the Analysis and Design of Sound in Multimodal Webtexts” by Heidi McKee
Here are links to the multimedia examples in McKee’s article:
Breathing/Secret of Roe
Conversation
Winter Lyric
New York City: After the Fall
Sound Poems
Radio Lab episode, “Morality”
Download at the website
On the Media segment, “Pornucopia”
Listen at the website
Readings for discussion in class on Sept. 4:
Save the Internet .com
Please read the “What’s Net Neutrality” page and then explore the rest of the site taking notes on its use of Web2.0 technologies such as blogs and YouTube video.
“True or False: U.S.’s Broadband Penetration Is Lower Than Even Estonia’s” Newsweek, June 28 2007.
Wiki readings for discussion in class on Sept 6:
The following articles discuss the web sites/communities Wikipedia and Wikinews, so you will need to explore both of these sites to fully understand the information presented.
When exploring Wikipedia you may wish to look at the “discussion,” “view source” or “edit this” tabs of very active artcles such as “Islam” or “Neoconservatism.” There you will see the debates among authors about what should be included (or not) in the article and see who is allowed to contribute to the article.
“The Book Stops Here” by Daniel H. Pink. Published in Wired, April 6, 2005.
“The Unassociated Press” by Aaron Weiss. Published in The New York Times Feb. 10, 2005.
“A Wiki Situation” by Scott McLernee. Published in Inside Higher Education, June 14, 2006.
“A Stand Against Wikipedia” by Scott Jaschik. Published in Inside Higher Education, Jan. 26, 2007.
Readings for discussion in class on Sept. 11 & 13:
Bill Thompson, “I share, you rip off, they pirate.” BC news. Monday, 29 March, 2004.
David Post, “Free Culture vs. Big Media.” Reason. Nov. 2004.
After reading the Educause pamphlet below, visit the Creative Commons website to learn more about their licenses and their position on copyright.
“7 things you should know about… Creative Commons.” Educause. March 2007.
Danielle Nicole DeVoss and James E. Porter, “Why Napster Matters to Writing: Filesharing as a New Ethic of Digital Delivery.” Computers and Composition. 23 (2006).
Scroll to the bottom of the reading list to view the Pepsi commercial and its parody that are referenced in the article.
The following two readings are by a collective known as Negativland. If you like what you read, check ou the rest of their website.
Negativland, “Changing Copyright.”
Negativland. “Negativland’s Tenets of Free Appropriation.”
David Shenk, Andrew L. Shapiro, Steven Johnson. “Get Real! A Manifesto from a New Generation of Cultural Critics: TechnoRealism.” The Nation. April 6, 1998.
John Logie, “A copyright cold war? The polarized rhetoric of the peer-to-peer debates.” First Monday. 8.7 (July 2003).
The following is a talk given by Lawrence Lessig, Stanford professor of Law. It was his introduction to a forum disscussion with Jeff Tweedy held at the New York Public Library. Lessig has synched his slide show with the audio from his talk and made it freely available as a video.
Lawrence Lessig, “Who Owns Culture.” Presentation, first delivered April 7, 2005.
Below is the video Good Copy, Bad Copy, a documentary about the current state of copyright. This is a full length (59 min.), full quality documentary that you can watch full screen if you choose. It takes quite a while to load, so if you are on a dial-up connection at home, you may want to watch this on campus. If you are on a DSL or cable connection, you should be fine.
You can view the complete credits and information about downloading the video at http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/.
This is the original Pepsi commercial shown during the 2004 Superbowl.
This is the parody made by James E. Saldana
Readings for discussion in class on Sept. 18:
Michael Hirschorn. “About Facebook.” The Atlantic, Oct. 2007.
Readings for discussion in class on Sept. 20:
Patricia Sullivan. “Practicing safe visual rhetoric on the World Wide Web.” Computers and Composition 18 (2001) 103–121.
Examples of university faculty homepages and websites
Online tutorials about the use of color in online and print design
Color, Contrast, and Dimension in News Design