New Media: historical reflections and current practices
MALS 70000 Introduction to Graduate Liberal Studies [27452]
Spring 2015 Thursdays 6:30-8:30 (update 2/1/15)
Dr. Joan Greenbaum
Jan. 29 Discussion and media clips: media in our life histories & using course website
Feb. 5 Perspectives: Manovich, 2001 The Language of New Media, (see pdf in File section) or
Intro (pp. 2-12) and Chap 2 “the Interface” (pp. 62-111) also Chap. 1 if interested (pp. 18-55) see: http://dss-edit.com/plu/Manovich Lev_The_Language_of_the_New_Media.pdf or see pdf in Files on this site
Feb 12 no class (holiday): early television history, among others see :
- http://www.emmytvlegends.org/resources/tv-history
- see: “Goodnight and Goodluck”, film, 2005. (re: Edward R Murrow)
- look at: a live broadcast drama and a sitcom from the 1950s
Feb 19 Education: Cuban,1986, Teachers and Machines, classroom use of technology since 1920 (book)
- see also: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/introduction-media-and- methods-for-opening-education/
- visit from Librarian re research at GC
Feb 26 Telephones: Fischer, 1992, America Calling, A social history of the Telephone to 1940 chap. 1-3 ( pp. 1-85 )
- see also Youtube videos on Bell Telephone operator training 1920s-
Mar. 5 Telephones: Fischer, continued Chap. 8 & 9 (pp. 222-272) plus selected chapter(s);
** Essay I
March 12 Social history of media: Briggs & Burke, A social history of Media, (book) Chap. 1, Intro (pp.1-12;) & chap 6 (pp. 179-236)
** mini project proposal
March 19 Social history of media (cont) Chap. 7 & 8 (pp. 237-302) & selected chapters of interest
** Term paper proposal
March 26 Internet history: Streeter, The Net Effect, Intro through Chap 3 (pp. 1-92)
April 2 Internet history : Streeter, continued Chaps, 4-6 (pp. 93-187) Greenbaum, Windows on the Workplace (chap. 1, 6 & 7)
Apr 9 Spring Break (no classes) see opening exhibit: http://www.bgc.bard.edu/gallery/gallery-atbgc/the-interface-experience.html
April 16 Interactive history: Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto “http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Haraway-CyborgManifesto-1.pdf
** Essay II
April 23 Experiencing the Interface: Exhibition at Bard Graduate Center 18 W. 86th St.
April 30 Current Issues: surveillance Bellamy Foster & Mcchesney “Monopoly-finance Capital, the military-industrial complex & digital age,” Monthly Review, 2014 http://monthlyreview.org/2014/07/01/surveillance-capitalism/
plus return to Windows on the Workplace.
May 7 Current Issues: Teaching and learning
- games: Gee, What Video Games have to teach us about learning and literacy , Intro & selected chapters
- digital humanities: M. Gold (pdf)
- twitter in academic life (sites & pdf) and sites &apps in disciplines, see for example American Social History Project http://ashp.cuny.edu/
** Term paper
May 14 presentations and research discussion
(**research mini project write-up if not included in Term paper)
May 21 presentations and research discussion
