Web Literacy: Theory and Practice of Reading and Writing Hypertext

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Readings

 

Week Two:

City of Bits
William J. Mitchell
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As We May Think, Vannevar Bush

Hypertext, by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum, from Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web (handout)
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Week Three:
American Quarterly 
Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies and reviews (need Wesleyan ISP or use our proxy server

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Week Four: Victory Garden 
Stuart Moulthrop
(buy from Eastgate Systems, which is also a good place to look around in its own right )

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Week Five: Hybrid and new forms
yahoo, weblogs, webrings, salon, wired, slate see reading questions for links to resources 

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Theory

Week Six: Literary Theory Sampler
Stanley Fish, Is there a Text in this Class? 
Barbara Johnson, Writing from Critical Terms for Literary Study

Weeks Seven and Eight: Hypertext 2.0
George Landow
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On-line bits and pieces (weird address)

Week Nine:Selections of hypertext theory

Links by Stephen Johnson, from Interface Culture (handout)

 

Anti-web essays 

Stuart Moulthrop
Error 404: Doubting the Web linked from http://raven.ubalt.edu/staff/moulthrop/essays/

Nancy Kaplan
Politexts, Hypertexts, and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print
http://www.ibiblio.org/cmc/mag/1995/mar/kaplan.html

 

JOHN SEELY BROWN and PAUL DUGUID

The Social Life of Documents   

Avatars of the Word
James O'Donnell
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On-line bits and pieces

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