- Marshall McLuhan, "Understanding Media"

- “Immediacy, Hypermediacy, and Remediation” by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin from Remediation

- “Mediation and Remediation” by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin from handout of Remediation (pg.53-62)

- “Images as the Text: Pictographs and Pictographic Logic” by Johanna Drucker and Jerome McGann

- A is for Ox by Barry Sanders

- “The Gutenberg Galaxy” in Essential McLuhan (pg. 112-148)

- “Maps, Knowledge, and Power” by J. B. Hartley

- “Mapping the Digital Empire” by Jason Farman

- Hamlet on the Holodeck by Janet Murray, Ch. 3

- “A Rape in Cyberspace” by Julian Dibbell

- “Naked in the Nonopticon” from The Chronicle Review

- “With Friends Like These…” from The Guardian

- The Facebook Project

- “How Twitter Creates a Social Sixth Sense” from Wired

- “Ambient Intimacy”

- “How YouTube Changes the Way We Think” from Wired

- “The Secret World of Lonelygirl” from Wired

- Works of Electronic Literature, March 26:

• Ian Hatcher, “Signal to Noise”: http://clearblock.net/stn/
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, “Bust Down the Doors!”:
  http://www.yhchang.com/BUST_DOWN_THE_DOORS!.html
• Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries. “Traveling to Utopia: A Brief History of Technology”:
  http://www.yhchang.com/TRAVELING_TO_UTOPIA.html
• J.R. Carpenter, “Entre Ville”:http://luckysoap.com/entreville/index.html
• Ingrid Ankerson and Megan Sapnar, “Crusing”:
  http://collection.eliterature.org/1/works/ankerson_sapnar__cruising.html
• Jay Bushman, “The Good Captain” (read just the beginning):
  http://www.loose-fish.com/waifpole/the-good-captain/
• David Theo Goldberg & Stefka Hristova (design by Eric Loyer), “Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina’s Wake”:
  http://vectors.usc.edu/issues/5/bluevelvet/

- Click HERE for the DTC 375 Chat Room (be sure to type your FULL NAME as your user name instead of "guest")

- “Can there be a Form Between a Game and a Story?” by Ken
Perlin in First Person (pg. 12-18)

- “A Preliminary Poetics for Interactive Drama and Games” by Michael Mateas in First Person (pg. 19-33)

- "Ludology" and “Towards Computer Game Studies” by Markku Eskelinen in First Person (pg. 35-44)

- “Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation” by Espen Aarseth in First Person (pg. 45-55)

- “Representation, Enaction, and the Ethics of Simulation” by
Simon Penny in First Person (pg. 73-84)

- “Videogames of the Oppressed: Critical Thinking, Education, Tolerance, and Other Trivial Issues” by Gonzalo Frasca in First Person (pg. 85-94)