Find information about differnt topics for your class-exercises and projects:
One of those books will be the theme for your Final project presentation.
During the semester I will facilitate you a photocopied_selected-chapter of most of them. We will have little discussions and screenings related to their subjects.
You should choose "the book of your choice" and get a hand on it before the Mid term, so you have time to read it and digest it for your final presentation.
Envisioning Information, by Edward R. Tufte.
Graphics Press LLC, 1999.
Visual Explanations. Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative.
By Edward R. Tufte.
Graphics Press, 1997.
The Visual display of quantitative information,
by Edward R. Tufte.
Graphics Press LLC.
Understanding Media, by Marshall McLuhan. (for more on the author click HERE) (to McLuhanisms page HERE) (to Student Work on him. Mid Term projects HERE) (for Terminology presentation HERE)
Much to the chagrin of his contemporary critics McLuhan's preference was for a prose style that explored rather than explained. Probes, or aphorisms, were an indispensable tool with which he sought to prompt and prod the reader into an ''understanding of how media operate'' and to provoke reflection.
In the 1960s McLuhan's theories aroused both wrath and admiration. It is intriguing to speculate what he might have to say 40 years later on subjects to which he devoted whole chapters such as Television, The Telephone, Weapons, Housing and Money. Today few would dispute that mass media have indeed decentralized modern living and turned the world into a global village.
Digital McLuhan: A guide to the Information Millenium, by Paul Levinson. (to more click HERE)
Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the new millennium. Paul Levinson examines why McLuhan's theories about media are more important to us today than when they were first written, and why the "Wired" generation is now turning to McLuhan's work to understand the global village in the digital age.
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin.
to more on walter benjamin, click HERE.
to more on the essay, click HERE.
Art and Visual Perception, a psychology of the creative eye, Rudolf Arnheim. (for images from the book click HERE)
to more on Rudolf Arnheim, click HERE.
to more on The Gestalt theory of perception, click HERE.
Hamlet on the Holodeck, The future of Narrative in Cyberspace.
by Janet H. Murray, 1997.
The MIT press. Cambridge, MA.
to more on Janet H. Murray, click HERE.
to more about the book, click HERE.
Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling.
New Riders Games.
Pub Date: October 06, 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-27890-6
Available as online book.
http://safari.oreilly.com/0321278909