Drawing on Lev Manovich’s essay, “Notes on Instagrammism and mechanisms of contemporary cultural identity (and also photography, design, Kinfolk, k- pop, hashtags, mise-en-scène, and cостояние),” we will discuss Kinfolk, Kinfolk Life, and Kinfolk Videos in relation to Instagram.
After class, write at least 250-words summarizing your reading and the lecture. Feel free to draw on your own experiences using Instagram as a part of your reflection.
For today’s after class assignment, write at least 250 words summarizing the important points that you gleaned from the read and your lecture notes from today’s class.
If you want to learn more about Lev Manovich’s work in new media, watch these videos from YouTube. You may incorporate them into your summary, too.
Here are some links that we’ll take a look at during today’s class. After our class discussion, you can write your reading and lecture summary, and post it as a comment made to this blog post.
Whole Earth Catalog, Fall 1968
For today’s after class summary, write at least 250-words summarizing your reading of the “Introduction” from Lisa Gitelman’s Always Already New and the in-class discussion on the reading. Think about the connections to the previous readings that Gitelman references–Bolter and Grusin, McLuhan, and Kittler.
For your after class writing assignment, write a 250-word summary of J. David Bolter and Richard A. Grusin’s “Remediation” and today’s lecture. Following your summary, write how at least three forms of media remediate other/older media forms.
After today’s class, remember to write and post your 250-word summary of the reading–Charles Kostelnick’s “Typographical Design, Modernist Aesthetics, and Professional Communication.” Something to keep in mind at this point in the semester is how the readings are bending towards technical communication issues informed by critical theory. Find connections between these new readings and those that have come before.
For Tuesday’s class, read J. David Bolter and Richard A. Grusin’s “Remediation” (linked from the syllabus). In addition to the reading, think about new technologies that have an old “look” or iconography that gestures to past media without being necessary. Bring these examples to our discussion on Tuesday.
After today’s class, write your 250-word summary of Friedrich Kittler’s “Gramophone Film Typewriter” and your lecture notes. Again, think about and write down connections that you find between Kittler and the other readings and lecture material that we have covered.
After today’s class, write a 250-word summary of your reading and lecture notes on Marshall McLuhan’s “The Medium is the Message.” Remember to consider and write about the connections that you find between McLuhan’s ideas and those presented in the other readings. Your goal is to cognitively process data > information > knowledge > wisdom.
Please post your after class summary of the reading and lecture today on N. Katherine Hayles’ “Toward Embodied Virtuality” as a comment to this blog post.
Also, try my suggestion to write a one sentence summary of all of the readings so far this semester. Have a copy of the syllabus at-hand so that you can follow the order of the readings. Consider the connections that you can make between the readings. Remember that I selected the readings to create a kind of story–a narrative thread–for the class.
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