This class is cancelled for 2006.

Computer mediated stories are vital to many current media, and will be more so in future media, e.g., video games, movies, and poems with interactive storylines and music that adapt when read/heard. Techniques for creating works in such media include semiotics, metaphor, blending and narratology.

There are no prerequesites, but CSE 9, 10 or 11, and the ability to read basic works in the humanities will be very helpful.

The course website is under construction, so that some information is missing, other information is incomplete or incorrect, and all information is subject to change.

Please check this website frequently; important notices will be posted near the top of the homepage, and readings and homework will be posted on their respective webpages, not given in class. You should reload pages frequently, because I may be editing the same page you are reading! All webpages are subject to updates.

Please read the Integrity of Scholarship Agreement, by Scott Baden, and UCSD's official policies on Plagiarism; see also the most recent amended policy (sorry, it's in MS Word). You are expected to abide by these rules; failure to do so can have very serious consequences.

Wednesday 10:00-10:50 am, EBU3B 3109

Section ID 556409

• Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud (Harper, 1993). ISBN 0-06-097625-X.
• Introduction to Barthes, Mireille Ribiere (Hodder & Stoughton, 2002). ISBN 0-340-84499-X.
• CSE 87D Reader.

• required readings
• class notes

• The Game Design Reader: A Rules of Play Anthology, edited by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman (MIT, 2006`).
• New Media Reader, Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (MIT, 2003).
• Remediation: Understanding New Media, David Bolter and Richard Grusin (MIT, 2000).
• Life Stories, Charlotte Linde (Oxford, 1993).
• Hamlet on the Holodeck, Janet H. Murray (Free Press, 1997).
• Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, Espen J. Aarseth (Johns Hopkins, 1997).
• Inside Electronic Game Design, Arnie Katz with Laurie Yates (Prima Lifestyles, 1995).
• The Literary Mind, Mark Turner (Oxford, 1998).
• The Uses of Literature, Italo Calvino (Harcourt Brace, 1986).
• Mythologies, Roland Barthes (Noonday, 1973).
• More than Cool Reason, George Lakoff and Mark Turner (Chicago, 1989).
• Narrative Intelligence, edited by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers (Benjamins, 2003).
• Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, Samuel R. Delany (Bantam, 1985).
• Hotline Healers: An Almost Browne Novel, Gerald Vizenor (Weslyan, 1995).
• afternoon, a story, Michael Joyce (Eastgate Systems, 1987).
• Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (Bantam, 2000).
• Nova Express, William S. Burroughs (Granada, 1966).
• The Soft Machine, William S. Burroughs (Grove Press, 1992).
• Sociolinguistic Patterns, William Labov (Pennsylvania, 1972).
• The Social Life of Information, John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid (Harvard Business School, 2000).
• A Gift of Fire, Sara Baase (Prentice Hall, 2003, second edition). This is oriented towards law.
• Sorting Things Out, Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star (MIT, 1999).
• Moral Imagination: Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics, Mark Johnson (Chicago, 1994).
• High Wired, edited by Cynthia Haynes and Jan Rune Holvevik (Michigan, 1998).
• The Cultures of Computing, edited by Susan Leigh Star (Blackwell, 1995).
• Computers, Minds and Conduct, Graham Button, Jeff Coulter, John Lee and Wes Sharrock (Polity 1995).
• Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Bruno Latour (Harvard, 1996).
• Consilience, Edward O. Wilson (Vintage, 1998).
• Computation and Human Experience, Philip Agre (Cambridge, 1997).

• Eastgate Systems, a supplier of hypertexts and hypertext technology.
• Homepage of Phil Agre at UCLA contains many interesting publications on media, economics, the internet, etc., a good bibliography, and some good links.