The following texts are required:
Software Takes Command, Lev Manovich (Introduction, pp1-33) (available online: http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2008/11/softbook.html)
Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (pp.1-63), Christopher Kelty (available online: http://twobits.net)
The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich
My Mother Was a Computer, N. Katherine Hayles
Remediation, Bolter and Grusin
Media Ecologies, Matthew Fuller
The ÜberReader: Selected Works of Avital Ronell, ed. Diane Davis (Part I: “The Call of Technology,” pp.1-96)
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter, Friedrich Kittler
Ex-Foliations, Terry Harpold
Mechanisms, Matt Kirschenbaum
Persuasive Games, Ian Bogost
Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
The Laws of Cool, Alan Liu
Lingua Fracta, Collin Brooke
Computers & Composition, special issue: "A Thousand Pictures: Interfaces and Composition" (26.3)
