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Focus: MUDs, writing, and learning
Tentative Agenda
| Week | Date | Reading | Notes |
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| 1 | May 15 - 20 | Kym Buchanan. "'It's Just a Game:' Consent & Immersion in Persistent Alternate Worlds." Julian Dibbell. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World. (336 pages) Cynthia Haynes & Jan Rune Holmevik (Eds.). High Wired: On the Design, Use, and Theory of Educational MOOs. (368 pages) |
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| 2 | May 23 - 27 | High Wired, cont'd. | Kym has jury duty Monday-Thursday (Star Wars: Episode III opens Thursday!) |
| 3 | May 30 - June 3 | High Wired, cont'd. Torill Mortensen. "Playing With Players: Potential Methodologies for MUDs." |
Possible guest: Torill Mortensen. Torill has studied MUDs, and she's a long-time acquaintance of mine (I was a subject in one of her studies, we built together on a MUD, etc.). I think she'd be delighted to meet us online and chat for an hour; I've asked. |
| 4 | June 6 - 10 | Brenda Laurel. Computers as Theatre. (256 pages) | Kym leaves Friday I hugely admire Laurel's Utopian Entrepreneur, so I'm looking forward to reading more of her. |
| 5 | June 13 - 17 | Espen Aarseth. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature. (216 pages) | Kym gone I expect Cybertext to be a rich resource. |
| 6 | June 20 - 24 | Cybertext, cont'd. | Kym gone
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| 7 | June 27 - July 1 | Cybertext, cont'd. Sherry Turkle. Life on the Screen. (352 pages) |
Kym back Tuesday |
| 8 | July 4 - 8 | Life, cont'd. |
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| 9 | July 11 - 15 | ??? | Revisit "It's Just a Game" |
| 10 | July 18 - 22 | Ludwig Wittgenstein. Philosophical Investigations. | Possible guest: Rand Spiro. Rand is my advisor. He's intimately familiar with Phil. Invest. as it's a major influence on his work. He discourages us from trying to read the whole book. Rather, he's happy to point us to the most relevant sections, and meet and discuss them. (The initial draft of my "It's Just a Game" was for Rand's course.) |
| 11 | July 25 - 29 | ??? | |
| 12 | August 1 - 5 | Noah Wardrip-Fruin & Pat Harrigan (Eds.). First Person : New Media as Story, Performance, and Game. (350 pages) | Kym starts final draft of "It's Just a Game" |
| 13 | August 8 - 12 | First Person, cont'd. | |
| 14 | August 15 - 19 | Kym finishes final draft of "It's Just a Game" |
Other Possible Reading
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