Introductions
A Brief History of the Web

Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto," Cybercultures, pp.291-324

Haraway project from Cyberlit 1.0: Cyborg Comic
Introduction to Reading New Media
Assignment: Reading of Cyborg Spoof, due next class.

READING OF CYBORG SPOOF DUE
Cyborg Spoof
"Greasing the Rails to a Cyborg Future"
Cyborg Spoof project from Cyberlit 1.0: Sister Cyborg
Discuss analyses of the spoof
Class vote: fanfic and midterm

Hypertext Theory:
Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"
Mark Bernstein, "Patterns of Hypertext"
Mark Bernstein, "Hypertext Gardens"

Hypertext Theory, Part Two:
Robert Kendall, "The Hypertexts of Yesteryear"
Stuart Molthrop, "You Say You Want a Revolution"
Mark Bernstein, "Recurrence Is Not a Vice"

Stephenson, In The Beginning, pp.1-80

Stephenson, In The Beginning, pp.81-end

Feb 18

SNOW DAY!! WOOHOO!!

SNOW DAY RECOVERY

Michael Benedikt, "Cyberspace: First Steps," Cybercultures, pp.29-44
Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker, "Code Warriors," Cybercultures, pp.96-103
Timothy Leary, "The Cyberpunk: The Individual as Reality Pilot," Cybercultures, pp.529-539
Gibson, Neuromancer, pp.1-135
Website on cyberpunk. Be sure to read, at least, "What is Cyberpunk?," "Cyberpunk Concepts," and "Cyberpunk Non-fiction"
Assignment: Applying critical concepts, due Mar 06

Gibson, Neuromancer, pp.137-end
[David Tomas, "The Technophilic Body," Cybercultures, pp.175-189]
Assignment: Midterm Paper, due Mar 25

Gibson, Idoru, pp.1-198 (or as much as you can do)
"Modern boys and mobile girls"
William Gibson's Web site

APPLYING CRITICAL CONCEPTS ASSIGNMENT DUE
Gibson, Idoru, pp.199-end
[Michael Ostwald, "Virtual Urban Futures," Cybercultures, pp.658-675]

Independent Work Day:
Class will not meet today, but you should use this time to work on your midterm paper.

Stephenson, Snow Crash, pp.1-249 (or as much as you can do)
Stephenson's Web site
Assignment: Imaginings of cyberspace, due Apr 01

Spring Break: NO CLASS

Mar 20

Spring Break: NO CLASS

MIDTERM PAPER DUE
Stephenson, Snow Crash, pp.250-end
[Deborah Lupton, "The Embodied Computer/User," Cybercultures, pp.477-488]
Assignment: Final Project

IMAGININGS OF CYBERSPACE ASSIGNMENT DUE
Blogs:
WIL WEATON DOT NET, Yay! It's a Blog!, and Jason's Blog (read all entries for month of March for each plus be sure to read our cameo appearance)
Return to Gibson's Website and read one week of his blog
Psychology of Weblogs: 2002
What We're Doing When We Blog
Psychology of Weblogs: Everything Old Is New Again
Mark Amerika
You may also want to get a jump on Sharune. See Apr 10.

The Kaycee Nicole Affair:
The End of the Whole Mess
Cocky Bastard's Last Words to Kaycee
The Kaycee Nicole Story (read around the site, explore the links)
The Kaycee Nicole FAQ
Deconstructing Kaycee
Kaycee's Blog: the final week and read around (pick 3 weeks at random, read all entries for those weeks) in the blog reconstructed by a student from Cyberlit 1.0

Fanfic:
--GENERAL--
Susan Clerc, "Estrogen Brigades and 'Big Tits' Threads," Cybercultures, pp.216-229
Fanfic Glossary
--SLASH--
"The Protege" by Lunadeath (read all 12 chapters, and follow "Lunadeath" link on this page to see her LiveJournal profile)
What is slash?
Slashing the Borg
--MARY SUE--
"Ron and the Potion of Sacrifice" by Imagine-Gurl210 (read all chapters)
"Mary Sue Strikes Again" by Techni Kaze
Who is "Mary Sue?"
The Mary Sue Society
Harry Potter Mary Sue Litmus Test

RPG's:
Sharune: explore the wesbsite fully and then create a character and play a minimum of five hours
"When games stop being fun"
"'EverQuest' spins its own economy"
Shawn P. Wilbur, "An Archaeology of Cyberspaces," Cybercultures, pp.45-55

Apr 15

Shockwave movies:
Sex Slave (all episodes)
Regurge (all episodes)
Holiday Force (all episodes)

Tron

Tron
Tron 2.0 Web site
Scott Bukatman, "Terminal Penetration," Cybercultures, pp.149-174

The Matrix

The Matrix
Visit The Matrix and explore, but make sure you go to the essays page and read "The Matrix -- Our Future?"--check out the other essays if you'd like, too.