Course Documents Description and Course Rules Book Review Project Student Blogs: "Cyber-Communication" "Cyber-Terrorism/War/ surveillance" Cyber-Media ENGL 517

Readings for April 3: Besides the things that were passed out in class last week, the other two readings that are available electronically are at these links: http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/gender/herring.txt and http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/npr/vol06/63/erikss63.pdf Schedule of Events, as of the first day of class (Warning! This will change/move quite a bit!): (The schedule before February 27 is here...) February 27 Readings: Bolter and Grusin, Remediation, chapters 4 through 9. And "Show and Tell" items from Bolter and Grusin (details in class). Probably some other readings as assigned, stay tuned in class for details! Book Reviews, Hamlet on the Holodech by Janet H. Murray (reviewed by Nick Petroff) and Cybertext: Perspectives on Erogodic Literature, by Epsen Aarseth (reviewed by Jay Steichman) March 6 Winter break-- no class! March 13 Readings: Bolter and Grusin, Remediation, chapters 10 through 14, and "Show and Tell" items from Bolter and Grusin. And probably some catch-up on Remediation... Topic Proposals Due! By today's class, give me a one or so page description of the topic of your class research project. March 20 No class because of the CCCCs in NYC. Since we won't have class this day, I would encourage you to use the time/space/opportunity to : work on your research projects begin to bring into "final form" (whatever that might mean!) your blog projects decide as a blog group on a reading that you will share with the class on April 3. March 27 Readings: Bolter and Grusin, Remediation, chapters 15 through 18, and "Show and Tell" items from Bolter and Grusin. And probably some more catch-up on Remediation... Questions/concerns about readings for April 3. Book Review of Katherine Hayle's How We Became Posthuman (reviewed by Lisa Smith) April 3 Readings: TBA by each Blog group Any necessary wrap-up of Remediation Book Review of Barbara Warnick's Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest (reviewed by Sara Maurer) April 10 Peer review of Research Project: In small groups of 3 or 4, you will discuss your research project(s) with your colleagues. I will encourage all of you to arrange an opportunity to email each other more extended comments. I will collect and read whatever it is that you are able to complete, and I will try to very briefly comment on your projects as well. Final discussion/decompression of the blog writing exercises. Discussion of take-home final. April 17 Research Projects Due! Turn these in at the beginning of class. Take-home final distributed and discussed. April 24: Finals Week Take-home final due at the beginning of class!

Course Links Krause's "Teacher Blog" EMU electronic reserve system Class Emailing List Blogger Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies Voice of the Shuttle "Cyberculture" section About Char Davies' Osmosis About Jeffrey Shaw's The Golden Calf (includes cool pictures!) Grammatron (I don't know if this fits here or not, but it is kind of an interesting interactive "thingy" on the 'net "The Rhetorical Situation" as discussed by Bitzer (this is a nice little summary of things...) Julian Dibbell's "A Rape in Cyberspace" essay (Kendrick references this in an interesting way...)