Hypertext: Reading and Writing Online

Course Schedule

Spring, 2002 - Vanderbilt University

Week 1 (Jan. 11) - Overview	Week 2 (Jan. 16-18) - Critical Approaches to the Web	Week 3 (Jan. 23-25) - Hyperfiction on the Web	Week 4 (Jan. 29-31) - Cyberculture:
Week 5 (Feb. 5-7) -	Week 6 (Feb. 12-14) -	Week 7 (Feb. 19-21) -	Week 8 (Feb. 26-28)-
Spring Break (Mar. 2-10)	Week 9 (Mar. 12-14) - Arcadia	Week 10 (Mar. 19-21) - Arcadia, II	Week 11 (Mar. 26-28) -
Week 12 (Apr. 2-4) - Hackers Ethic	Week 13 (Apr. 9-11) - Patchwork Girl	*Week 14 (Apr. 16-18) - Patchwork Girl, II*	Week 15 (Apr. 23) - Conclusion

Week 1 (January 11): Overview

Thursday - Course procedures and requirements

Week 2 (January 16-18): Taking a Critical Approach to the Web

Tuesday: Create initial web page.

Read Lawrence Lessig, "Four Puzzles from Cyberspace," from Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), pp. 9-19. (On reserve)

Recommended: Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace"

Thursday:

Read Ed Falco's hypertext shortstory for the Web, "Charmin' Cleary." (This story is presented by the Eastgate Web Reading Room.)

Week 3 (January 23-25): Hypermedia on the Web

Tuesday

Terri Ford and Erik Lover, "Story Problem." This hypermedia is from bornmagazine: art and literature, together (2002).

Thursday

First paper due. Assignment.

Recommended: Mark Bernstein, "Patterns of Hypertext" (Essay [1998] on varieties of ways to design hypertexts by the technical head at Eastgate Systems.)

Week 4 (January 30-February 1): Cyberculture: Bloggers and WebCams

Tuesday

View The Matrix (1999), directed by Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski - Rent the DVD or tape of the movie and watch it before class.

Wednesday (conferences - Benson 319)
Thursday (Benson 133)

Friday (conferences - Benson 319)

Week 5 (February 6-8): Hyperfiction on a Stand Alone Platform

Tuesday

Second paper due. Assignm ent.
In class: Create first collaborative websites based on your Lessig papers.

Thursday (Benson 133)

Week 6 (February 13-15): Gender in Cyberspace II

Tuesday

Watch Timecode (2000) - Rent the DVD or tape of the movie and watch it before class.
Third paper due. Assignment.

In class: Begin posting material to the collaborative web site "Virtually 21"

Thursday (Benson 133)

Week 7 (February 20-22): MOOing

Tuesday

In class: Web development--work on collective site for "Virtually 21."

Thursday

Janet Murray, excerpt from Hamlet on the Holodeck, from erb7(Summer, 1998), an online journal.

Week 8 (February 27 - March 1): Multimedia Narrative

Tuesday

Thursday

Spring Break (March 3-11)

Week 9 (March 13-15): The Long Information Age

Tuesday

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, Act I, pp. 1-52

Thursday

Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, Act II, pp. 53-97
First draft of paper on due (8 lexias).

Week 10 (March 20-22): Experimental Films on the Web

Tuesday

In class: Begin posting material to the collaborative web site "Virtually 21."
Final draft of paper on

Thursday

Watch short films from AtomFilms and ifilms.

A Letter from the Western Front (USA) 9:00. Director: Daniel M. Kanemoto
Full Feedback (Germany - English language)| 19:15. Director: Stephen Manuel
Little Man on Campus (USA) 11:15. Director: Morgan Lawley
405 (USA) 2:58. Director: Bruce Branit and Jeremy Hunt
Can Man (USA) 1:54. Director: Henry Hills

Week 11 (March 27 - 29):

Tuesday

In class: Finish collaborative websites for first and second papers. Begin posting material to the collaborative web site "Virtually 21."

Thursday

Reading: Borges's "Garden of the Forking Paths"

Recommended: A site on Borges's story designed by Vaios Papanagnou, October 1999, University College London, for an MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing.

In class: Topics for Arcadia papers assigned.

Week 12 (April 3-5): Hackers

Tuesday

Watch Hackers (1995) - Rent the DVD or tape of the movie and watch it before class.

In class: Continue posting material to the collaborative web site "Virtually 21."

Recommended: Browse Hackers Hall of Fame, a web site created by Michelle Slattela.

Thursday (Benson 133)

2 page papers on individual topics for "The Arcadia Web."
In class: demonstration of Patchwork Girl

Week 13 (April 10-12): Patchwork Girl

Tuesday

Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl (Eastgate Systems disk.)

Thursday

Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl, cont. (Eastgate Systems disk.)

Recommended (critical work on Shelley Jackson):

Raine Koskimaa, "Visual Structuring of Hyperfiction Narratives" (Article in the hypertext journal ebr6, Winter 97/98. Contains discussions of Michael Joyce's Afternoon, a story, Stuart Moulthrop's Victory Garden, and Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl.)Transcript of a chatroom discussion with Shelley Jackson (In HotWired, the online magazine, 12 March 1996)
George Landow, "Stitching Together Narrative, Sexuality, Self: Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl"(Short book review by one of the pioneers of hypertext theory.)
Student comments and essays on Patchwork Girl (from George Landow's courses at Brown in 1996 and 1998)
Maria Aline Salgueiro Seabra Ferreira, University of Aveiro, Portugal, "Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl and Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve: A Comparative Reading" (On George Landow's Cyberspace and Critical Theory Web at Brown.)

2 page papers on individual topics for "The Arcadia Web."

Week 14 (April 17-19): Patchwork Girl, II

Tuesday

Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl, cont. (Eastgate Systems disk.)

Thursday

Shelley Jackson, Patchwork Girl, cont. (Eastgate Systems disk.)
2 page papers on individual topics for "The Arcadia Web."

Week 15 (April 24): Conclusion

Tuesday

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