Class Seven: Personal Publishing Desktop to Web
Personal Publishing: Desktop to Web
Why Interfaces Matter: The Microsoft Surface Parody
Going back to Ted Nelson (NMR #11, #21, #30)
Why files? Why desktops?
Why not "stretchtext"? (315) Why not PacMan?
DIY sensibilities (134)
New Media Reader #9 (recommended)- Ivan E. Sutherland, "Sketchpad" - Thinking about Engineers
New Media Reader #26 (recommended)- Alan Kay and Adele Goldberg, "Personal Dynamic Media"
Beyond imagining electrical diagrams - to animation, music, children' painting, hospital scheduling
The computer as a simulation tool
The dynabook - metaphors of book, filing
Humans and media - "externalize thoughts" (393)
"User community"(393)
Manovich Ch. 2, "The Interface" (Required)
The interface "brings with it strong messages of its own" (65)
"tools and metaphors of GUI" (65)
Not "clear separation between the field of work and the field of leisure" in industrial society (65)
Simulation of "typerwriter, paintbrush or drafting ruler" (69)
Written codex as historical (74)
No role for rhetoric (77) - I disagree with Manovich here
3D as cinematic
The concept of the screen (90)
Using a computer to represent "cultural memories, values, and experiences" vs controlling weapons or analyzing statistical data (93)
Constraints - Facebook and PowerPoint
Ian Bogost, "A Professor's Impressions of Facebook" (recommended)
Ellen Strenski's The PowerPoint Debate (required)
Edward Tufte - The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
For Homework
