Virtual Worlds New Media Faculty-Staff Seminar Fall11 - Robin Heyden/Liz Dorland

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Second Life Meeting (click here)

#nmfs_f11 - Tweets (cllck here)

Internet History - People + Events

http://www.livinginternet.com/i/i.htm

A summary of the History of the Internet

NMFS Fall 2011 Syllabus

Seminar: Wednesdays 4:30-6 PM US Eastern (1:30 PM SLT)
Ars Simulacra in Second Life

Text: New Media Reader - ISBN-10: 0262232278
Contact @rheyden or @ldinstl_chimera for more info.

Week of September 12: Editors' Preface; Janet Murray, "Introduction"
Web 2.0 / networked seminar orientation

Week of September 19: Vannevar Bush, "As We May Think"

Week of September 26:Norbert Wiener, "Men, Machines, and the World About"; J. C. R. Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis"

Week of October 3: Doug Engelbart "Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework" (excerpts in our text, plus sections TBD at (website here)
FACILITATOR: JUNG OODLES

Week of October 10: Ted Nelson, "Computer Lib / Dream Machines" GARDNER CAMPBELL VISIT

Week of October 17: Alan Kay/Adele Goldberg, "Personal Dynamic Media"

Week of October 24: Marshall McLuhan, excerpts from Gutenberg Galaxy, also "The Medium is the Message" (from Understanding Media) FACILITATOR: WILLOW SHENLIN

Week of October 31: Bill Viola, "Will There Be Condominiums in Data Space?"

Week of November 7: Brenda Laurel, "The Six Elements and the Causal Relations Among Them" and "Star Raiders: Dramatic Interaction in a Small World"

Week of November 14: Sherry Turkle, "Video Games and Computer Holding Power" FACILITATOR: KARI CLASE
HOWARD RHEINGOLD VISIT

Week of November 21: Chapter 7, "Learning Webs," from Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society (online at http://deschoolingsociety.digress.it/learning-webs/).
FACILITATOR: SKYHOOK INGLEWOOD

Week of November 28: Scott McCloud, "Time Frames" (for further reading, Tim Berners-Lee, "The World Wide Web")

NMFS Fall 2011 Schedule w/reading links

NMFS Fall 2011 Schedule - Part 2

All-NMFS F'11 Blogs & Links

Networked Blog Posts - All

Gardner Campbell's NMFS Wiki - click here

Gardner Writes - click here to go to web

Week 10: Sherry Turkle - Computer Holding Power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLVCpZIiNs

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEDxUIUC 2011 - (02/19/11), organized at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by a group of students.

Week 9: Brenda Laurel - Games for Girls

http://www.ted.com/talks/brenda_laurel_on_making_games_for_girls.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Talk: "At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world of girls (and shares amazing interviews and photos) to create a game that girls would love."

Week 9: Brenda Laurel: The Gamasutra 20

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3589/women_in_games_the_gamasutra_20.php?page=10

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The first-ever Gamasutra 20, honoring the Top 20 women working in the video game industry today, has taken a peer-based approach to this important task...see http://tinyurl.com/Gamasutra-20 for all of the top 20.

Week 9: Brenda Laurel: The Six Elements outline

http://www.slideshare.net/hexakali/laurel-6080944

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Presentation with an outline of the main points of Brenda Laurel: The Six Elements reading by another user of the NMR book.

Week 8: Viola - Condominiums in Data Space

http://www.billviola.com/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Viola official website with many images and resources, including a video with his acceptance remarks at an Award Ceremony in Japan for "extraordinary achievement in the fields of painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and theatre/film" on Oct. 19, 2011.

Week 8: Viola - Design Boom Interviews

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/viola.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Images + interviews + video clips. "Could you describe your style as a good friend of yours might?" Viola: we have all come from a place of the unborn and we are all here for a short period of time. we have to cross a threshold of water and light to arrive and to leave. we will ultimately all go back to this eternal non-spatial, non-temporal world of potentiality. a lot of my work deals with questions like this, of giving birth, death and human transition.

Week 7: McCluhan - Ads are the Art Form of the 20th Century

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/mcluhan/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The McLuhan Project featured a series of broadcasts on ABC Radio National during the week of this significant centenary (his 100th birthday), together with this online resource featuring an interactive infographic, archival video and other material.

Week 6: Kay/Goldberg - Dynabook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ YouTube description of rare video: "In 1968, Alan Kay outlined the Dynabook, calling it a "children's computer." The device was never made commercially, but he made a model out of cardboard. In this 2002 Japanese Documentary (NHK Japan), he shows this model."

Week 5: Ted Nelson - Computer Lib/Dream Machines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ted Nelson describes the Xanadu Project and his philosophy on how documents should really work. Flinks, not links.

Week 4: The Mother of all Demos - Englebart is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Information on Englebart's famous demo plus a link to view it with.

Week 3: Licklider - Man-Computer Symbiosis

http://museum.mit.edu/150/30

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Licklider in Analog/Digital Exhibit at MIT Museum

Week 3: Norbert Weiner - Life Timeline

http://libraries.mit.edu/archives/research/collections/collections-mc/mc22.html#ref6

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Biographical timeline of Weiner's life and a list of all of his publications (MIT)

Week 3: Weiner enters college at 11, PhD at 18

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-01-norbert-wiener-earlier-important.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Short article on the importance of Weiner's work.

Week 3: Weiner & Turing Study Guide

http://easyurltoremember.com/classes/0405.1.fall.mdst110/lectures/08.html

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Outline of key events and contributions of Turing & Weiner to the new media landscape.

Week 2: Memex Comes to Life - Vannevar Bush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3R8sXTOvrY

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Memex animation - Vannevar Bush's diagrams made real - YouTube

Week 1: The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version)

http://tinyurl.com/us-ing-us

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) - YouTube