Computers and New Media Reading List

class 1: (Jan. 14) (slides)

• Class Overview, Introductions, Discussion of Basic Issues, Methods, and Technology

• Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Introduction, Chapters 1-3, Marshall McLuhan (pages 5-50 of this pdf).

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Introduction, Chapter 1)
  
• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 2)

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 3)
  
• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 4)

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 5)
  
• Project Discussion Team Forming, Discussion of Ideas/Roles

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 6)
  
• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 7)

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapter 8)
  
• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet Murray (Chapters 9-10)

• Due: Project Reports Phase I (Topic Selection, Issues, Approach, Timeline, and Work Allocation)

• "Advances in Social Media Research: Past, Present and Future", Kawaljeet K. Kapoor et al., , from Information Systems Frontiers, Vol. 20, 2018, pp. 531-558.

class 10: (Feb. 13) Beyond Pencil and Paper (slides)

• "Reading and Writing Fluid Hypertext Narratives", Polle Zellweger, Anne Mangen, and Paula Newman, from Proceedings of ACM Hypertext 2002, pp. 45-54.
• "Only touching the surface: creating affinities between digital content and paper", Paul Luff et al., from Proceedings of ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2004, pp. 523-532.

class 11: (Feb. 18) Audio & Music (slides)

• "Interactive 3D sonification for the exploration of city maps", Wilko Heuten et al., from Proceedings of ACM NordiCHI 2006, pp. 155-164.
• "Understanding the Use of AI-Based Audio Generation Models by End-Users", Jiyeon Han, Eunseo Yang, and Uran Oh, Jurgen Scheible and Timo Ojala, from CHI EA '24: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 355, pp. 1-7.

class 12: (Feb. 20) Authored Video (slides)

• "Hypervideo expression: experiences with hyper-hitchcock", Frank Shipman, et al., ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Vol. 5, No. 2, Article #15.

class 13: (Feb. 25) (slides)

• Project Reports Phase II (Design, Rationale, Current Development Status)

• "HyperMeeting: Supporting Asynchronous Meetings with Hypervideo", Andreas Girgensohn et al., from Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2015, pp. 611-620.

class 15: (March 4) Games (slides)

• "Large Language Models and Games: A Survey and Roadmap", Roberto Gallota et al., from IEEE Transactions on Games, 2024, pp. 1-18.
• "Data-driven Prediction Games", Gabriel Dzodom and Frank Shipman, from Extented Proceedings of ACM CHI, 2016, pp. 1857-1864.

class 16: (March 6) Virtual Characters and Automatic Narrative Control (slides)

• "Interactive Narrative: An Intelligent Systems Approach", Mark O. Riedl and Vadim Bulitko, from AI Magazine, Vol. 34, Issue 1, March 2013, pp. 67-77.
• "StoryVerse: Towards Co-authoring Dynamic Plot with LLM-based Character Simulation via Narrative Planning" , Yi Wang, Qian Zhou, and David Ledo, from FDG '24: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2024, Article No. 55, pages 1-4.

class 17: (March 18) Digital Rights Management and Content Ownership (slides)

• "A rights management approach to protection of privacy in a cloud of electronic health records", Mohammad Jafari et al., from DRM '11 Proceedings, 2011, pp. 23-30.
• "Who Owns the Social Web?", Catherine Marshall and Frank Shipman, Communications of the ACM, May 2017, pp. 52-61.

class 18: (March 20) (slides)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Preface, Chapter 1)

• Project Reports Phase III (Interface Snapshots, Current Development Status)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 2)
  
• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 3)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 4)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 5)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 6)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 7)
  
• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 8)

• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 9)
  
• The Public Domain, James Boyle (Chapter 10)