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WEEK 5 - FRIDAY,
MARCH 7
Session I (~90 minutes)
Rethinking Print Culture
The nature of print culture as a product of earlier technologies, how
its core institutions and practices are altering in response to the new
media, impact on the bookstore, the library, the magazine, the comic book,
the novel, micropayments vs. subscriptions, DynaBook, etc....
" Scott McCloud, Reinventing Comics (Skim first half, read second
half)
" Gary Groth, "McCloud in Cuckoo-Land," Comic Journal,
April 2001, p.32-40.
" John Seeley Brown and Paul Duguid, "Reading the Background,"
The Social Life of Information, (pp.173-206)
" "Alan Kay's DynaBook" http://www.sheridanc.on.ca/~randy/design.dir/software.dir/alan_kay.htm
Session II (~60 Minutes)
Guest Speaker: TBA
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