by Susana Tosca
Assistant Professor

Dept. Digital Aesthetics and Communication<

Center for Computer Games Research <

 

Autumn 2004

DKM Study Program

IT-University of Copenhagen

 

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Courseplan
This courseplan is work in progress. Please check it everyweek for additions. It will contain lecture slides and other material. For specific material and explanation concerning exercises, please go to the exercises page. Unless otherwise indicated, all readings can be found in the kompendium or the web.

The week before each session the teacher will email students in the course introducing the readings and exercises for next session so that they can prepare accordingly and for example know which readings are prioritary, etc.

tba- to be announced
CS- case study

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date
theme
readings
materials
exercises
1 1/9 Introduction
- Sardar/Van Loon. 1998. Introducing Cultural Studies. Cambridge: Icon Books. (p. 3-23) 

Lecture slides

Cake List

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2 8/9 Doing Cultural Studies

- Hall et.al. 1997. Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage. (p. 7-40, 125-128) CS

- Fornäs, Johan. 1998. "Digital Borderlands. Identity and Interactivity in Culture, Media and Communications". Nordicom Review, 19:1 (1998), 27-38.

 Lecture slides
Discourse Analysis
3 15/9 Everyday Life and IT

- Lister et.al. 2003. New Media: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge. (p.220-260)

 - Mackay, Hugh. 1997. “Consuming Communication Technologies at Home”. In Mackay, Hugh (ed.) Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Sage. (P. 260-308) CS

- Pesce, Mark. 2000. The Playful World. How Technology is Transforming our Imagination. New York: Ballantine Books.

  Lecture slides
Storytelling (Qualitative)
4 22/9 People Online

- Lunn, Robert J. & Suman, Michael W. 2002. “Experience and Trust in Online Shopping”. In Wellman, Barry & Haythornthwaite, Caroline (eds.) The Internet in Everyday Life. Oxford: Blackwell. (p.549-577)

- Sveningsson, Malin. 2002. “Cyberlove: Creating Romantic Relationships on the Net”. In Fornäs, Johan (ed.). Digital Borderlands. Cultural studies of identity and interactivity on the Internet. New York: Peter Lang. (p. 48-78) CS

- Winokur, Mark. 2003. "The Ambiguous Panopticon:
Foucault and the Codes of Cyberspace". In CTheory.

  Lecture slides
Quantitative + Storytelling
5 29/9 Cyberspace myths: cyberpunk

- Bell, David. 2001. “Storying Cyberspace 1: Material and symbolic stories”. In An Introduction to Cybercultures. London: Routledge. (p. 6-28)

- Cavallaro, Dani. 2000. Cyberpunk and Cyberculture. London: The Athlone Press. (p. 1-40) CS

- Gibson, Willian. 1986. “Johnny Mnemonic” in Burning Chrome. London: Harper Collins. (p. 9-36)

 Lecture slides  
Discourse Analysis
6 6/10 Audience s Consumption and Industry

- Jenkins, Henry. "Interactive audiences? The Collective Intelligence of New Media Fans". In his website.

- Baudrillard, Jean. 2001. “Consumer Society”. In Poster, Mark (ed.). Selected Writings. Stanford: Standford University Press. (p. 32-59)

- Negus, Keith. 1997. "The Production of Culture". In Du Gay. Production of Culture / Cultures of Production. London: Sage (p. 67-119) CS
(not in kompendium, photocopy)

Lecture slides  
Cancelled
7 13/10 Identity

- Dibbell, Julian. 1993 “A rape in Cyberspace”. In Holeton, Richard. 1998. Composing Cyberspace. Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. Boston: McGraw Hill. 1998 (p. 83-98)  CS

- Giddens, Anthony. 1991. “’Modernity and Self-Identity’ Tribulations of the Self”. In Jaworkski/Coupland (eds.) The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 415-427)

- Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen. New York: Simon & Schuster.

- Goffman, Erving, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Doubleday, 1956, pp. 22-30, 70-76.

  Lecture slides
Cancelled
8 20/10

 

Community

Guest lecturer:
Stine Gotved

 

- Baym, Nancy. 2000. “I think of them as friends”: Interpersonal Relationships in the Online Community”. In Tune in, Log On. Soaps, Fandom and Online Community. London: Sage. (p. 119-142) CS

- Bell, David. 2001. “Community and Cyberculture” In An Introduction to Cybercultures. London: Routledge. (p. 92-110)

No slides this week, lecturer will use whiteboard. :-)
Ethnography
9 27/10

Cyberspace and Ethics

Guest lecturer:
Miguel Sicart

- Lévy, Pierre. 2001. Cyberculture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. (p. 211-236)

- Poster, Mark. 2003. “The Good, the Bad and the Virtual. Ethics in the Age of Information”. In Liestøl/Morrison/Rasmussen. Digital Media Revisited. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.(P. 521-545)


- Stern, R. Susannah. 2003. "Encountering distressing information in online research: a consideration of legal and ethical responsibilities. In New Media & Society, vol 5(2). CS

Lecture slides (pdf)
Synopsis example
10 3/11 Gender

- Wajcman, Judy. 1991. Feminism Confronts Technology. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. (p. 1-26)

-Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.

Lecture slides  

Notes on Haraway

Work on your synopsis
11 10/11

Regulation

Guest lecturer: Troels B. Folmann

- Lessig, Lawrence. 1999. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books. (p. 3-9, 122-164)

- "The cathedral and the bazaar", by Eric S. Raymond. Read the Danish translation here

- "Kan man stjæle fra Madonna?" CS (there is no text for you to read in advance, it is a presentation)

 

Lecture slides

 Notes from the texts

Work on your synopsis
12 17/11 The others´ culture

- Tufte, Thomas. 2002. “Ethnic Minority Danes between Diaspora and Locality – Social Uses of Mobile Phones and Internet”. In Stald/Tufte (eds.) Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation. Luton: University of Luton Press. (p. 235-263) CS   

- BIG WRAP UP LECTURE. I will go over the different topics of the course and see how things relate to each other and what stuff you "need to know" for the exam.

 
Work on your synopsis