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April 18, 2006
The Computer Technician as Author
The Computer Technician as Author
Jim Barrett's New Media guest lecture next friday (April 28)
Time and place: Friday 28th of April, 13.15-15.00 in MC333
Abstract:
Constructing something that tells a story is very much at home in computer science. But what should one consider when one (tries to) communicate/s using new media? Working from the concepts of: Literacy Narrative Reading Rhetoric Art I will introduce some of the parameters of the computer technician as author.
Suggested Readings:
GAME DESIGN AS NARRATIVE ARCHITECTURE
by Henry Jenkins http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/games&narrative.html
IMAGINING GAMEPLAY: THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF SPATIAL WORLDS by Bernadette Flynn http://www.dab.uts.edu.au/research/papers/imaging_gameplay.pdf
Materiality is the Message
Review of: N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines. Mediawork Pamphlet.
Cambridge: MIT P, 2002. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/pmc/v014/14.1doughty.html
Posted by top at April 18, 2006 03:22 PM