Week 1 (11-9):
A Hypergloss History of the Digital & Blogging with WordPress
Resources
- Lecture slides (PDF).
- http://www.janavirgin.com/ , website of digital artist Joanna Moll and part of the ifapa.me collective,
- Gutenberg WordPress Editor FAQ (wordpress.com, 2018)
- The History of WordPress (WPBeginner.com, 2018)
Read
NB here and below, “read”means before next class. In addition, unless hyperlinked, the texts can be found on Blackboard.
- Revolutions in Communication, Chapter 10: Computers (Kovarik, 2015).
- Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, Chapter 1 (Wilcox, 2016)
- Science Blogging: The Essential Guide, Chapter 11 (Lillie, 2016)
Things to do
NB Here and below, “Fun” means it is an optional thing to do.
- Sign up for the course blog via digmedia.lucdh.nl/login, familiarize yourself with the WordPress CMS Gutenberg editor and how to create posts, the Roles plugin (i.e. understand how you can control the visibility of your content).
- Fun: ‘The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage comic.
Week 2 (18-9):
The World Brain(drain)
Resources
- Lecture slides available after class
- Creative Commons Images for non-Copyright materials for your blogs. You can also try Google Image Search with Usage Rights, Wikimedia Commons, or Archive.org.
Read
- The Brain Organization of the Modern World, in H.G. Wells’ World Brain (1938).
- The Anatomy of a Search Engine (Brin and Page, 1998).
Things to do
- Include at least one image, of which you have use rights, in your upcoming blog post.
- Fun: Watch Google and the World Brain documentary on Archive.org
Week 3 (25-9):
The Valley where Gold turned into Silicon (and back again)
Resources
- Lecture slides available after class
Read
- Silicon Valley Explained in Adam Fisher’s Valley of Genius
- Sillicon Valley by Christine Finn in The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World
Things to do
- Fun:
- Listen to some episodes of the Valley of Genius podcast.
- Read Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- Check out the Hacker Quarterly or the MIT Gallery of Hacks
- Read about or watch the origin of “Information wants to be free”
Week 4 (2-10):
The Self Online
Read
- The I in Internet in Jia Tolentino’s (2019) Trick Mirror.
- ‘The Presentation of Self in the Online World’: Goffman and the study of online identities. Bullingham and Vasconcelos, 2013
Things to do
- Familiarize yourself with HTML and WordPress’ Code Editor, work through Part 2 of the Working with the Web tutorial.
Week 5 (9-10):
Neo-Tribes
Read
- Maffesoli’s From Society to Tribal Communities
- Pick and read one (or more) of chapters on Digital Communities
- Boellstorff’s Coming of Age in Second Life
- Pearce and Artemesia’s Communities of Play
- Miller’s Tales from Facebook
- Burges and Green’s YouTube
Things to do
Have fun at Leids Ontzet!
Week 6 (16-10):
Top 10… Worst of the Internet
Read
TBA
Things to do
- Fun: Spend a day offline!