Meetings, Readings, and Assignments
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Topic | Reading/Deadline | |
| Jan. 29 | Introduction to the course: movies and map, comics and cosmos | No reading; read the assignment below for next week | Feb. 5 | Comics | Scott McCloud, from Understanding Comics (handout)
Moore and Campbell, chapters 1-6 Assignment 1: Project Leksvik |
Feb. 12 | Visual narrative | Moore and Campbell, chapters 7-10 |
| Feb. 19 | Comics and Cinema | Moore and Campbell, chapters 11-14 and Epilogues
Marcie Begleiter, from From Word to Image |
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| Feb. 26 | PowerPoint and Cognition | Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
David Byrne, from Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information (handout) Assignment 2, Narrative Storyboard |
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| Mar. 4 | Visualizing Information | Tufte, Envisioning Information, pp. 27-66 | |
| Mar. 11 | Envisioning Processes | Tufte, pp. 67-96 | |
| Mar. 18 | Visualization and Analysis | Tufte, pp. 98-end | |
| Mar. 25 | SPRING BREAK | No meeting, no reading | |
| Apr. 1 | After the Late Age of Print |
Lev Manovich, from The Language of New Media (handout)
Tufte, pp. 12-36 Assignment 3: Complex Process |
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| Apr. 8 | Web Space | Kahn and Lenk, Mapping Web Sites, chapters 1-4 |
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| Apr. 15 | Web Mapping | Kahn and Lenk, chapters 5-7 | |
| Apr. 22 | Emergence, Part 1 |
Steven Johnson, Emergence, Introduction and chapters 3 and 4
Assignment 4: Web Map |
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| Apr. 29 | Emergence, Part 2 | Johnson, chapters 5-7 | |
| May 6 | Virtual Worlds |
Tim Berners-Lee, "The Semantic Web" (handout)
David Gelernter, from Mirror Worlds (handout) James Gee, from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy (handout) |
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| May. 20 | Class does not meet | Final Project Due | |
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