Planning the autumn
It's the season of planning ahead, and I have spent a delicious little hour finishing the pland for a tiny little course in New Media. I started these plans last year, delirious with happiness that I had received The New Media Reader. Due to a mix-up, that tiny little course never ended up as part of the department curriculum. However, when the media group leader frowned at the plans for next year and muttered "We need one or two more topics here", I volunteered (!) my little plan. For those lovers of lists and plans out there, here it is, Torill's little pleasure project this autumn:

Old news on new media
Dr. Torill Mortensen
The development of the hypertext and the non-linear text from Vannevar Bush and the Memex Machine to the World Wide Web. The ideas behind our understanding of the web.

Three lectures, each 2 x 45 minutes:
The Computer and the thought
Society, technology and structures
Breaking with linearity

Bush, Vannevar (1945): ”As We May Think”, The Atlantic Monthly, July 1945, på http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

Douglas C. Engelbart. Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework. Summary Report AFOSR-3223 under Contract AF 49(638)-1024, SRI Project 3578 for Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Ca., October 1962. på http://www.bootstrap.org/augdocs/friedewald030402/augmentinghumanintellect/ahi62index.html, disse delene: I: Introduction, A og B, III Examples and discussion, A2 og A3 og B4 og B5.

Baudrillard, Jean (1981): “Requiem for the Media”, in For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, 164 – 184, Telos Press, og trykt på nytt i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 278 – 288) Også tilgjengelig på: http://www.calarts.edu/~bookchin/mediatheory/essays/19-baudrillard-03.pdf

Williams, Raymond (1972): ”The Technology and the Society”, I Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 291-300)

Nelson, Theodor H. (1981): “Proposal for a Universal Electronic Publishing System and Archive”, i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 443-461)

Turkle, Sherry (1984): “Video Games and Computer Holding Power”, i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 500-513)

Moulthrop, Stuart (1991): “You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of the Media”, i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 692 – 704)

McLoud, Scott (1993): “Time Frames”, i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 712 – 735)

Aarseth, Espen (1994): “Nonlinearity and Literary Theory”, i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 762 – 780)

Berners-Lee, Tim, Robert Cailliau, Ari Luotonen, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen and Arthur Secret: “The World-Wide Web”, i Wardrip-Fruin, Noah og Nick Montfort (2003): The New Media Reader, the MIT Press, Boston. (s 792 – 797)