MAY 6 -- CYBERSPACE AND THE THEORY OF INFORMATION
READ:
There are many theories of information; our reading, however, comes from the introduction to the 1949 classic work of Claude Shannon (Excerpt from the Introduction to the 1949 classic).
The full text of Shannon's classic can be found in Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers. New York: The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1993 (Science TK5101.S448 1993). Edited by N.J.A. Sloane and Aaron D. Wyner.
MAY 8 -- IN THE BEGINNING: HYPERTEXT AND CYBERMEDIA
Hypertext and dynamic documents, are unquestionably threats to print materials. On the other hand, hypertext has been to referred to as " text's revenge on television."
Read chapter one: "Hypertext and Critical Theory" in George P. Landow, Hypertext: the Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). (ON RESERVE IN THE KNIGHT LIBRARY)
And also read the 1945 classic by Vannevar Bush, As We May Think.
RECOMMENDED READINGS AND RESOURCES:
- A Brief Bibliography of Hypertext
- NOTE:The following article is from HOTWIRED the online version of WIRED magazine.
The online version of WIRED requires a user name and password for full access. The online subscription is free, so it might be worth your while to subscribe (we encourage it).
If you are on password overload and don't want the hassle of REGISTERING for another service, use the following word for both user name and password: cypherpunk.
- Wolf, Gary. "The Curse of Xanadu" WIRED (June, 1995)
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~felsing/cyber/cyber2.html