Week Three: Paths of Most Resistance

October 15

Anonymity, Identity, and the Critique of Heterosexism

Required: New Media Reader #3 - Alan Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

New Media Reader #35 - Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"

Recommended: Amy Bruckman, "The Turing Game: Exploring Identity in an Online Environment"

"An engineering communication theory is just like a very proper and discreet girl accepting your telegram. She pays no attention to the meaning, whether it be sad, or joyous, or embarrassing. But she must be prepared to deal with all that come to her desk."

- Warren Weaver, "Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication."

The Queer Internet - guest speaker Jonathan Alexander, author of "In Their Own Words: LGBT Youth Writing on the World Wide Web"

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October 16

Extra Credit Event

Humanitech Panel on "Technology, Translation, and Transformation" with Course Author Ian Bogost

HIB 135

October 17

No Class