by Susana Tosca
Assistant Professor

Dept. Digital Aesthetics and Communication<

Center for Computer Games Research <

 

Spring 2004

DKM Study Program

IT-University of Copenhagen

 

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Courseplan
This courseplan is work in progress. Please check it everyweek for additions. It will contain lecture slides and other material. For specific material and explanation concerning exercises, please go to the exercises page. Unless otherwise indicated, all readings can be found in the kompendium.

tba- to be announced
CS- case study

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1 5/2 Introduction - Sardar/Van Loon. 1998. Introducing Cultural Studies. Cambridge: Icon Books. (p. 3-23) 

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2 12/2 The Circuit of Culture

- Gray, Ann. 2003. Research Practice for Cultural Studies. London: Sage. (p. 57-78)

- Hall et.al. 1997. Doing Cultural Studies. The Story of the Sony Walkman. London: Sage. (p. 7-40, 125-128) CS

 
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Discourse Analysis
3 19/2 Representation: Meanings and Symbols - Bell, David. 2001. An Introduction to Cybercultures. London: Routledge. (p. 6-29)

- Fornäs, Johan.1995. Cultural Theory and Late Modernity. London: Sage. (p. 134-154)

- Gibson, Willian. 1986. “Johnny Mnemonic” in Burning Chrome. London: Harper Collins. (p. 9-36)
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Discourse Analysis
4 26/2 Everyday Life and IT - Lister et.al. 2003. New Media: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge. (p.220-260)

- Mitchell, Lisa/Georges, Eugenia. 1998. “Baby´s First Picture. The Cyborg Fetus of Ultrasound Imaging”. In Davis-Floyd/Dumit (eds.). Cyborg Babies. From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots. New York: Routledge. (p. 105-123)
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- Pesce, Mark. 2000. The Playful World. How Technology is Transforming our Imagination. New York: Ballantine Books.
 

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Ethnographic: Storytelling
5 4/3 Consumption - Mackay, Hugh. 1997. “Consuming Communication Technologies at Home”. In Mackay, Hugh (ed.) Consumption and Everyday Life. London: Sage. (P. 260-308)

- Jenkins, Henry. 1992. Textual Poachers. Television Fans & Participatory Culture. New York: Routledge. (p.185-222)
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Qualitative: Interviews
6 11/3 Production

- Negus, Keith. 1997. "The Production of Culture". In Du Gay. Production of Culture / Cultures of Production. London: Sage (p. 67-119)
(not in kompendium, photocopy)

- Tosca, Susana. 2004. "Life´s a Game: Play More in the Third Space." CS + synopsis trial

- Würtz, Elizabeth. "Intercultural Communication on Websites" (presentation by a fellow student)

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Qualitative: Interviews
7 18/3 Identity - Dibbell, Julian. 1993 “A rape in Cyberspace”. In Holeton, Richard. 1998. Composing Cyberspace. Identity, Community, and Knowledge in the Electronic Age. Boston: McGraw Hill. 1998 (p. 83-98)  CS

- Giddens, Anthony. 1991. “’Modernity and Self-Identity’ Tribulations of the Self”. In Jaworkski/Coupland (eds.) The Discourse Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 415-427)

- Turkle, Sherry. 1995. Life on the Screen. New York: Simon & Schuster. (p. 9-26)
 

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Ethnographic: Participant Observation
8 25/3

Community

Guest lecturer:
Stine Gotved

- Baym, Nancy. 1998. “The Emergence of On-Line Community”. In Jones, Steven G. (ed.) Cybersociety 2.0. Revisiting Computer Mediated Communication and Community. London: Sage. (p. 35-63)

- Gotved, Stine. 1999. Cybersociologi. (ph.d. thesis). Sociologisk Institut, Københavns Universitet. (p. 121-168)
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- Robins, Kevin. 1996. “Cyberspace and the World We Live In”. In Bell, David / Kennedy M. Barbara. 2000. The Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 77-95)

- Wilbur P., Shawn. “An Archaeology of Cyberspaces”.1997. In Bell, David / Kennedy M. Barbara. 2000. The Cybercultures Reader. London: Routledge. (p. 45-55)

- Reitz Jørgensen, Gitte. "An online library service: issues in cross-cultural communication". (presentation by a fellow student)

 No slides this week, lecturer will use whiteboard. :-)
Quantitative: questionnaires & data analysis
9 1/4

Ideology: Cyberspace and Ethics

Guest lecturer:
Miguel Sicart

- Lévy, Pierre. 2001. Cyberculture. Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. (p. 211-236)

- Poster, Mark. 2003. “The Good, the Bad and the Virtual. Ethics in the Age of Information”. In Liestøl/Morrison/Rasmussen. Digital Media Revisited. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.(P. 521-545)


- Stern, R. Susannah. 2003. "Encountering distressing information in online research: a consideration of legal and ethical responsibilities. In New Media & Society, vol 5(2). CS 
(not in kompendium, photocopy)

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10 15/4
Ideology: Geeks & Girls
- Borsook, Paulina. 2000. Cyberselfish. A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian World of High-Tech. London: Little, Brown and Company. (p. 73-114)

- Wajcman, Judy. 1991. Feminism Confronts Technology. Pennsylvania: Penn State University Press. (p. 1-26)

- Visit the blog, Misbehaving Net, and note down what you think about it. CS
 
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11 22/4

Regulation

Guest lecturer:
Morten Kjærsgaard

- Lessig, Lawrence. 1999. Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. New York: Basic Books. (p. 3-9, 122-164)

- Check out Morten Kjærsgaard´s company website, Magenta , and have a look at the articles... CS

- "Katedralen og basaren" af Eric S. Raymond (In Word)

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12 29/4 Ideology: the others´ culture - Nakamura, Lisa. 2000. “Where Do You Want to Go Today? Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet and Transnationality.” In Kolko/Nakamura/Rodman (eds.) Race in Cyberspace. New York: Routledge. (p. 15-26)

- Tufte, Thomas. 2002. “Ethnic Minority Danes between Diaspora and Locality – Social Uses of Mobile Phones and Internet”. In Stald/Tufte (eds.) Global Encounters: Media and Cultural Transformation. Luton: University of Luton Press. (p. 235-263)
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