English 640 Spring 2007

Calendar for February

 

Goals

  1. Progress on autoethnography—resulting in an “early draft.”
  2. Some demonstrations (possibilities: audio, digital libraries, new media UNM, blogs)
  3. Read and respond to key works in English Studies on new media.
  4. Experiments with response papers.

 

 

February 5-7      

Johndan Johnson-Eilola, Datacloud.

The whole book.

Reponse experiments.

February 12-14

Stuart Selber, Multiliteracies for a Digital Age.

Chapters 1-4

Response experiments.

February 19-21

 

Monday 19: Conferences and Short Class

Conference: Half hour to discuss both autoethnography plans and course design plans. Please prepare ideas and sign up.

Class: Meet at 4 to discuss briefly Kirsten’s and Leslie’s response papers and Katie’s and Candice’s reworkings of the cloud of data from Johnson-Eilola.

 

Wednesday 21: Meet at 4:15 in the Lobo Lab. Stephanie Holinka will instruct us in making individual blogs. These can be private or public spaces and you can use them or not as you please. They’re one possibility for the autoethnography. It’s a demo/workshop.

February 26-28

 

Alan Liu, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Word and the Culture of Information (See Directions below). Aim for half the reading done on Monday.

Due Feb 28: “Early Draft” of the Autoethnography. 

 

Reading Liu

Part I. The New Enlightenment.  .

Preface “Unnice Work”--read all. ereserves

Chapter 1: Skim, hunt, peck, sample—till you know what “knowledge work” is and can explain it with an example. ereserves

 

Part II. Ice Ages

Preface (We Work Here, But We’re Cool”)—read all. Ereserves

Chapters 2, 3, 4: Choose one: Automating, Informating, or Networking. Read till you understand something and can talk about it. Library

 

Part III. The Laws of Cool

Preface “What’s Cool”—read all. ereserves

Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8: Choose one: The Ethos of Inforamtion, Information Is Style, The Feeling of Information, Cyber-politics and Bad Attitude. Read till you understand something and can talk about it. Library

 

Part IV Humanities and Arts in the Age of Knowledge Work

Preface “More”—read all. Ereserves

Chapter 11 Destructive Creativity: The Arts in the Information Age. Read till you have an example well in mind and hand on what “destructive creativity” means. Ereserves in two parts.

Chapter 12 Speaking of History: Toward an Alliance of New Humanities and New Arts. Read all. ereserves