ENGL 593: |
Graduate Technology Colloquium
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New Media and the Reading Experience--New Approaches to Textual Forms, Interfaces, and Social Interactions |
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| Fall 2006 |
| Instructor: Alan Liu |
| Meets on: Tuesday 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM South Hall 2635 |
| Prerequisites: Graduate standing |
| Repeatable? Y |
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| http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~almeroth/classes/tech-soc/2006-Fall/ |
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English 593, which is cross listed with Computer Science 595N and Political Science 595N, is a one-unit course that brings graduate students and instructors together from the humanities, social-science, and engineering disciplines to discuss the implications of information technology in a once-per-week, informal workshop. The course also serves as the gateway for the UCSB Ph.D. Emphasis in Technology and Society. Focusing on a different umbrella topic each quarter, the course takes the form of a sequence of student presentations (one per student or team of students). Commonly, faculty from several departments attend.
This instance of the seminar in Fall 2006 will be led by Alan Liu in collaboration with Kevin Almeroth. It will focus loosely on the mutation of text and reading in digital, multimedia, and networked information environments. What is the current state of research and technological development in adapting the relationship between print, orality, and graphics commonly called "text" to new media? Issues of interest might include: hardware innovations (such as "e-ink" or flexible OLED displays); new text visualization and interface designs; adaptive text aggregation systems (such as Inform.com); tools for online reading and annotation; research in digital literacy and reading practices; text-archiving, -scanning, and -searching initiatives; blogs and social-networking systems; collective reading practices; wireless text-messaging; text-encoding; and the relation between the history and future of the book. The seminar will be loosely affiliated with the UC Transliteracies Project: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading (http://transliteracies.english.ucsb.edu). |
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