The final exam for this course will be Tuesday 17 May 8:00am-10:00am. It will be a “stay-at-home” essay exam. That is, you will take the exam from home (or wherever you have computer and/or wireless access). The exam will be posted to the class blog at 8:00am. (I will also email the class once it is posted). You will then have two hours to complete the exam and send it to me by email. At 10:00am, the exam will be taken down from the class blog.
For the final exam, you should be familiar with the genres, concepts, and readings listed below.
Genres
The following are the genres of digital literature we examined in the second half of the course.
- Fake Facebook and Phweets
- Wikis
- Flogs
- Books (particularly He, She, and It)
Concepts
Main concepts in the second half of the course (each has a corresponding entry on the class blog categorized under “lecture notes”):
- The future of writing and reading (NEA study, Robert Darnton)
- Canon (and digital humanities)
- Fact vs. Fiction
- Database
- Wikis
- Blogs and flogs
- Digital subjectivity
- The cyborg
- He, She, and It
Readings
Here are the texts you should be familiar with for the final exam. You will able to write about other readings (such as those presented by your class mates and texts you encountered during in-class writing and group exercises) on the final as well.
- Marge Piercy, He, She, and It
- George P. Landow, “The Cyborg”
http://www.cyberartsweb.org/cpace/cyborg/cyborgov.html - “Horton’s Folly”
http://hortonsfolly.blogspot.com/ - Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman and Wanlei Zhou, “Teaching and Learning Online With Wikis”
http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/perth04/procs/augar.html - “I Have Thirty Days to Live” (wiki)
http://storymash.com/u/theblackhand/pohumalu/ - NEA report: “To Read or Not to Read”
http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.pdf - Robert Darnton, “The Library in the New Age”
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2008/jun/12/the-library-in-the-new-age/ - Scott Rettberg, “Communitizing Electronic Literature”
http://grandtextauto.org/2008/05/29/communitizing-electronic-literature/?s=future&submit=%3F
Note: The concepts are more important than the readings. So spend more time reviewing the concepts (in “lecture notes”) than the readings.
