IS 296-3/S06
DOCUMENT THEORY
COURSE PLAN so far, 2006-01-26
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Jan 19, Introduction |
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Jan 26, The notion of sign I |
Ch. S. Peirce http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/ep/ep2/ep2book/ch02/ep2ch2.htm |
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Febuary 2, The notion of sign II |
F. de Saussure link to selected chapters from F.de Saussure Courses in General Linguistics |
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February 9, Semiology according to Barthes |
Selected texts by Roland Barthes from "Elements of
Semiology"(1964/67) Part II Signifier and Signified link and "Image, Music,
Text" (1977) The Photographic Message and Rethoric of the Image link Musica Practica and From Work to Text link |
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February 16, Semiotics according to Kress & Leeuwen |
Gunter Kress & Theo van Leeuwen: Multimodal Discourse: The modes and Media of contemporary communication, Arnold 2001: TO BE BOUGHT |
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February 23, K & L II |
K & L: Multimodal Discourse |
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March 2, why do we need a document theory |
article and draft manuscript, coming soon |
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List of literature, which either will be scheduled or pointed to in the rest of the course:
McLuhan, Marshall: Understanding Media, The Extensions of Man, The MIT Press 1964/94
Bolter, Jay David and Grusin, Richard: Remediation, Understanding New Media; The MIT Press 1999/2000
Manovich, Lev: The Language of New Media, The MIT Press, 2002
Latour, Bruno and Woolgar, Steve: Laboratory Life, The Construction of Scientific Facts, Princeton University Press 1979,1986
Frohmann, Bernd: Deflating Information, From Science Studies to Documentation, University of Toronto Press, 2004
Bowker, Geoffrey: Memory Practices in the Sciences, The MIT Press 2006, just being published
Harding, Sandra and Figueroa, Robert (Eds): Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology, Routledge, New York, 2003