Readings
Week 1
Roland Barthes - Camera Lucida
John Berger - Understanding A Photograph
Kittler - Optical Media (Suggested)
Kovarik 27-36
Kovarik 139-161
Week 2
Sergei Eisenstein - A Dialectical Approach To Film Form
Kovarik 181-191
Kovarik 191-205
Week 3 + 4
Kovarik 287-289
Kovarik 217-240
Kovarik 309-321
Kovarik 324-329
Mulvey - Visual Pleasure
Lynn Spigel - Television in the Family Circle
Williams - Flow
Week 5
Kovarik 333-341
Media Hot and Cold - Marshall McLuhan
Unruly Media; YouTube + Music Video Aesthetics - Vernallis (skim)
Week 6
Digital Humanities - Lunenfeld, et. al (excerpts)
Kovarik 349-374
Jurgenson - IRL Fetish
Jurgenson - The Facebook Eye
Unimodernism - Lunenfeld
Generations - Lunenfeld
Slides
Lecture 1 | Lecture 2 | Lecture 3 | Lecture 4
Lecture 5 | Lecture 6 | Lecture 7 | Lecture 8Lecture 9 | Lecture 10
Modernisms
Assignments
Photo Analysis Datablitz | Rubric
Midterm | Rubric
Final | Rubric
How to Write A Review | How to Make Great Presentations with Pecha Kucha
Syllabus
DESMA 8: Media Histories SU17
Xtras
Media Histories YouTube Playlist
RadioLab: Watching You, Watching Me - The History of Candid Camera (thx to Haejin Suh!)
VR Exhibition @ Butcher Bird Studios (on Sept 10)
Events: Pantsula @ The Fowler (through Sept 3)
Events: Alex Brown “Obscura” Closing (on Aug 31)
Bitmojis: The Avatars of Communications
Outsourcing Emotional Labor with Reaction Gifs: Teen Vogue
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