Week 1 Introduction to the subject (WB March 1)
No set reading this week

Week 2 Orality, Literacy, Electracy? (WB March 8)

Reading: Excerpts from: `Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word’ by Walter J. Ong. (1982). http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~port/teach/relg/ong.html

Also Useful:

From Homer to hip-hop: A tribute to Walter J. Ong by Jeer Heer.
http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/2005_4/from_homer_to_hip_hop_a_tribute_to_walter_j_ong

Introduction to Modern Literary Theory Website by Dr. Kristi Siegel Structuralism.
http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm#struct

Post-Structuralism and Deconstruction.
http://www.kristisiegel.com/theory.htm#poststruct

Week 3 How Hypertext and Networked Writing Work

Reading: The Electronic Labyrinth – Christopher Keep, Tim McLaughlin, Robin Parmar.
http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/elab/

Week 4 Early Hypertext Theory and Criticism

Reading: Grusin, Richard A. ‘What is an Electronic Author?  Theory and the Technological Fallacy’ in Robert Markley (Ed.) Virtual Realities and their Discontents (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press), 1996.
http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/416088.pdf

Also Useful:

Landow, George (1999) Hypertext: the Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology.
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/ht/jhup/contents.html

Bernstein, Mark (1997) Chasing Our Tales.
 http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/composition/bernstein/

Week 5 Precursors to Electronic Writing

Reading: Two of the following

Tofts, Darren. ‘”A Retrospective Sort Of Arrangement”: Ulysses And The Poetics Of Hypertextuality’ Hypermedia Joyce Studies, Vol 3, Issue 1, 2002. http://hjs.ff.cuni.cz/archives/v3/tofts2.html

Kenner, Hugh. ‘James Joyce: Comedian of the Inventory’, from The Stoic Comedians. Flaubert, Joyce and Beckett (Berkeley, University of California Press). (On online reserve)

Tofts, D., “Hyperlogic, the avantgarde, and other intransitive acts” in Parallax: Essays on Art, Technology and Culture, Interface Books, 1999 pp.16-28 http://ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/login?url=http://onlineres.swin.edu.au/420548.pdf

And if you can, have a look at:

Taylor, M. & Saarinen, E., Imagologies: Media Philosophy, Routledge, 1994

McLuhan, M. & Fiore, Q., The Medium is the Massage, Simon and Schuster, 1967

Week 6 Some thoughts on Rhetoric

Reading: Gye, L. “How can you be found when no-one knows that you are missing?” in Tofts, D. & McCrea, C. (eds) What Now? : The Imprecise and Disagreeable Aesthetics of Remix, Fibreculture Journal 15, Dec., 2009.
http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue15/issue15_gye.html

Also Useful:

Kuhns, Bill. ‘The War Within the Word: McLuhan’s History of the Trivium’ McLuhan Studies 1:1
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/mcluhan-studies/v1_iss1/1_1art6.htm

Week 7 Knowledge and Representation?…Knowledge AS Representation

I have had to change these as the original texts were inaccessible

Reading: Baetens, Jan(2008) ‘Colour as a visual signifier in screen typography: ‘less means more”, Visual Studies,
23: 3, 267 — 274  Available here http://netlit.swinmc.net/readings/baetens.pdf

And if you want some extended reading,  McCorkle, Ben(2005) ‘Harbingers of the printed page: Nineteenth-century theories of delivery as remediation’, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 35: 4, 25 — 49 http://netlit.swinmc.net/readings/mccorkle.pdf

Week 8 Ulmer and electracy

Reading: Ulmer, G., Heuretics: The Logic of Invention, Baltimore, John Hopkins U.P., 1994 pp. 28 -31
Available on Counter Reserve

Scott Rettberg, “Dada Redux: Elements of Dadaist Practice in Contemporary Electronic Literature”, in Fibreculture Journal, Issue 11, 2008. http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue11/issue11_rettberg.html

Week 9 Halflives: An exposition on the creation of one hypertext

Reading: Visit the Halflives site: http://halflives.lisagye.net

Gye, L., Halflives, A Mystory: Writing Hypertext to Learn

http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue2/issue2_gye.html

Week 10 Memory Machines

Reading: Jose van Dijck – Mediated Memories: Personal Cultural Memory as Object of Cultural Analysis
http://www.swinmc.net/documents/vandijck.pdf

Also Useful

Marcus, G., The Dustbin of History, London: Harper Row, 1995

Lisa Gye – Picture This: the Impact of Mobile Camera Phones on Personal Photographic Practices
http://www.swinmc.net/documents/gye.pdf

Nate Burgos. “Memento, Memory, and Montage” _CTheory_, 27 November, 2001.
http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=321

Week 11 Lecture: Uploading your project to the web – tips and tricks
Tutorial: Project Consultation
Week 12 No Lecture – Project appointments as required
Tutorial: Project Consultation