I. Introduction to Digital Culture

[Jan 25: no class]

II. Being Online: consensual hallucination

  • Dibbell, Julian. "A Rape in Cyberspace"

    III. Cyberpunk: Spacing out with Psy Fi

  • Gibson, William. Neuromancer

    IV. Virus Culture: Meatspace, Cyberspace

  • Stephenson, Neal. Snow Crash

    V. Rip, Mix, Burn: Digital Rights Management

  • Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproducibility"
  • Ambulanzen, A.S. "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction"

    VI. Net Criticism

  • Lovink, Geert. Dark Fiber
    part 1 [chapters beginning on p. 22, 30, 42, and 68, respectively]

    VII. Towards a Political Economy of Digital Culture

  • Lovink, Geert. Dark Fiber
    part 2 [160-175: "fragments of network criticism", p. 330-379: "towards a political economy"]

    VIII. Hacking and Tactical Media

  • Thomas, Douglas. Hacker Culture
  • Wark, McKenzie. "Hacker Manifesto 2.0"

    IX. Hacktivism, Surveillance, Disinformation

  • Levy, Stephen. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
  • Denning, Dorothy E. "The Internet as a Tool for Influencing Foreign Policy
  • http://www.chillingeffects.org

    X. The Cyberoptics of Love: Digital Romance or Pixelfuck?

  • Chun, Wendy. Sexuality in the Age of Fiber Optics
  • Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet

    XI. Computers Anonymous: Agents, Bots, A.I.

  • Leonard, Andrew. Bots

    XII. Games and Machinima: frag that space

  • Poole, Steven. Trigger happy : the inner life of videogames
  • triggerhappy by thomson & craighead
  • czech it out: kill bill
  • help bush blast his way out of the white house

    XIII. Digital Diploma Mills: Virtual Education

  • Turkle, Sherry. "Seeing Through Computers: Education in a Culture of Simulation"
  • YAHOO: Education:Instructional Technology:Online Teaching and Learning
  • MIT Media Lab
    Old (and mean old) links - virtual visions from the past:

    XIV. Networked Art, Digital Works


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