Schedule
Session 1: Introduction
- Skim the following:
- Williams, “Media” (B)
- Williams, “Mediation” (B)
- Mitchell and Hansen, “Introduction,” Critical Terms for Media Studies (A)
- Guillory, “Genesis of the Media Concept” (B)
- Lennon, “New Stationary States” (B)
- Lennon, “Machine Translation” (B)
- Lennon, “The Digital Humanities and National Security” (B)
- Using this Doodle poll, choose one session for your position paper.
- Using this Doodle poll, choose one session for your response paper.
Session 2: Dress rehearsal
- Read (or reread) Mitchell and Hansen, “Introduction,” Critical Terms for Media Studies (A)
- Read (or reread) Guillory, “Genesis of the Media Concept” (B)
- Choose another chapter in Mitchell and Hansen, Critical Terms for Media Studies (A)
- Write a 750-word commentary on Guillory, Mitchell and Hansen, and the A-level readings for this session by Innis (below) and post it on the wiki blog (← this link works only if you are already logged in) by no later than 12 hours before our meeting
- Drawing on this blog post, prepare five minutes’ worth of remarks to be delivered during our meeting
- A: Innis, Bias of Communication: Introductions; Preface; “Industrialism and Cultural Values”; “A Critical Review”; “Adult Education and Universities”
- C: Watson, “Introduction: The Innisian Puzzle”
- C: Watson, “A Telegram to Australia”
- C: Watson, “At the Edge of the Precipice”
- C: Stamps, “Innis’s Formative Years”
Session 3: Innis
- A: Innis, Bias of Communication: “Minerva’s Owl”; “The Bias of Communication”; “A Plea for Time”; “The Problem of Space”
- B: Anderson, “Introduction”
- B: Anderson, “Cultural Roots”
- B: Pocock, “Some Europes in Their History”
- B: Abu-Lughod, “Preface”
- B: Abu-Lughod, “Emergence from Old Empires”
- B: Kristeva, “Women’s Time”
- B: Spivak, “French Feminism in an International Frame”
- B: Apter, “‘Women’s Time’ in Theory”
- C: Innis, The Idea File of Harold Innis
- C: Watson, “Innis and the Classicists”
- C: Watson, “Time, Space and the Oral Tradition”
- C: Watson, “Epilogue”
- C: Stamps, “Innis: Communications and the Negative Dialogue”
Session 4: McLuhan
- A: McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy
- B: Anderson, “The Origins of National Consciousness”
- B: Anderson, “Old Languages, New Models”
- B: Mitchell, “The Machinery of Truth”
- B: Abu-Lughod, “Restructuring the Thirteenth-Century World System”
- C: Willmott, McLuhan, or Modernism in Reverse
- C: Stamps, “McLuhan’s Early Years and Philosophical Framework”
- C: Stamps, “From Visual Society to No Point of View”
Session 5: Ong
- A: Ong, Orality and Literacy
- B readings for sessions on Innis and McLuhan
- C readings for sessions on Innis and McLuhan
- Investigate D readings, as well
Session 6: Eisenstein
- A: Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
- B readings for sessions on Innis and McLuhan
- C readings for sessions on Innis and McLuhan
- Investigate D readings, as well
Session 7: Kittler
- A: Kittler, Gramophone, Film, Typewriter
- C: Godzich, “Friedrich Kittler”
- C: Khayyat, “The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler”
- Investigate D readings, as well
Session 8: Flusser
- A: Flusser, Post-History
- A: Flusser, Does Writing Have a Future?
- C: Finger et al., Vilém Flusser: An Introduction
- C: van Meer, “Text, Image, Flusser”
- C: Roth, “Visual Consciousness: The Impact of New Media on Literate Culture”
- Investigate D readings, as well (Funkhouser; Lennon, “Screening a Digital Visual Poetics”)
Session 9: Innis, redux
- Read or reread all C readings relating to Innis
- Read at least one of the relevant B readings
- In consultation with other editors of your assigned note on Innis, augment and supplement that note with information from C and B readings
- In consultation with other editors of your assigned note on Innis, prepare three slides and five to ten minutes’ worth of commentary to present in class
- Bring laptop to session
- Assignments for rewriting and polishing notes on Innis
- Writing time during remainder of session?
Session 10: McLuhan et al., redux
- Finish rewriting and polishing notes on Innis
- Read or reread all C readings relating to McLuhan, Ong, and Eisenstein
- Read at least one of the relevant B readings
- In consultation with other editors of your assigned notes on McLuhan, Ong, and Eisenstein, augment and supplement each note with information from C and B readings
- In consultation with other editors of your assigned notes on McLuhan, Ong, and Eisenstein, prepare three slides and five to ten minutes’ worth of commentary to present in class
- Bring laptop to session
- Assignments for rewriting and polishing notes on McLuhan
- Assignments for rewriting and polishing notes on Ong and Eisenstein
- Writing time during remainder of session?
Session 11: Kittler and Flusser, redux
- Finish rewriting and polishing notes on McLuhan, Ong, and Eisenstein
- Read or reread all C readings relating to Kittler and Flusser
- Read at least one of the relevant B readings
- In consultation with other editors of your assigned notes on Kittler and Flusser, augment and supplement each note with information from C and B readings
- In consultation with other editors of your assigned notes on Kittler and Flusser, prepare three slides and five to ten minutes’ worth of commentary to present in class
- Bring laptop to session
- Assignments for rewriting and polishing notes on Kittler and Flusser
- Writing time during remainder of session?
Session 12: Additional research
- Finish rewriting and polishing notes on Kittler and Flusser
- Using Zotero or (if you prefer) another bibliographic reference manager, compile an annoted bibliography (100 words per annotation) of fifteen additional sources, using any combination of the following strategies:
- Follow citation trails in C readings;
- Incorporate up to five D readings;
- Do additional research
- Post a link to this annotated bibliography in a post on the wiki blog
- Bring laptop to session
- Assignments for composition of segments of Working paper
- Writing time during remainder of session?
Session 13: Working paper, I
- Complete drafts of segments of Working paper, incorporating some of the additional research performed for session 12
- Bring laptop to session
- Read segments of working paper aloud
- Discussion
- Assignments for revision of segments of working paper
- Editing time during remainder of session?
Session 14: Working paper, II
- Finish revision of segments of working paper
- I will transpose the segments to our sites.psu.edu site
- Bring laptop to session
- Viewing and discussion
- Assignments for abstracts to begin each section
- Discussion of commenting
- Discussion of Anthologize plugin
- Writing time during remainder of session?
Session 15: Working paper, III
- Finish and add incorporate abstracts to begin each section
- Begin commenting on segments and paragraphs of working paper
- Viewing and discussion
- Adjourn for refreshment?
Coda
Finish commenting on segments and paragraphs of working paper by midnight on the final day of final exam week. I will compile versions of the working paper in various file formats using the Anthologize plugin. (You are welcome to do the same.)