English 10 LC

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English 10 LC

• Course Overview and Introduction

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Agenda 1/10

• Attendance
• Introduction and Syllabus Review
• Short Essay
• Discussion - What is a text?
• Glossary and Group Sign Ups

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Syllabus Review

• http//kimknight.com/?pageid_4

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Culture of Information

• Definition of Information Culture
• Time Period
• New Media
• Critiques of Information Culture
• Implications for Literary Study

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Definition

• Visual Culture
• What is Information Culture?

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Time Period

• What makes our epoch unique
• Bushs Memex
• Babbages Analytical Engine
• Jacquards Loom
• 1984

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New Media

• Numerical Representation
• Modularity
• Automation
• Low level automation
• High level automation
• Variability
• Transcoding

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Critiques of Information Culture

• Manovich
• Barbrook Cameron
• Baudrillard

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Short Essay

• What is a text?

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Implications for the Study of Literature

• Discussion - what is a text?
• Art Technology
• Role of the Computer
• What is reading?
• Means of study

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Glossary Presentations

• Glossary assignments - Thursday
• Group Presentation - next week?