Course Schedule

READING & EXPERIMENTS SCHEDULE

 Week One

Th 1/30 Course Introductions
HW: read the following Twine narratives:
Week Two

Tu 2/4  Discuss Twine and readings; introduce Experiment #1
HW:Work on Experiment #1; read the following in order to get started:
Th 2/6 Workshop Experiment #1 / Lab
HW: complete Twine experiment

 Week Three 

Tu 2/11 Present Twine Narratives in Class / Wrap up Twine Conversation

Th/ 2/13 Present Twine Narratives in Class / Wrap up Twine Conversation
HW: read the following social media poetry: 

So Sad Today's Twitter account   
Astro Poets Twitter account  
Emoji Dickinson Twitter account 
Pentametron Twitter account   
Interview with Ranjit Bhatnagar  
Week Four

 T 2/18 Discuss Social Media Poetry / Present Experiment #2 (Note that there will *not* be a lab for Experiment #2)

 Th 2/20 Present Social Media Poems in Class / Wrap up Social Media Poetry Conversation
HW: read the following poems after the Internet:

Sophia Le Fraga's Literallydead  
Stephanie Berger and Carina Finn's emoji-code translation poems  
More on Berger and Finn
Ben Fama's "Girlwithcat2.jpg"  
Alex Dimitrov's "This is Not a Personal Poem" 
Ana Carette  "Why Fi"


 Week Five 

T 2/25 Discuss Poetry After the Internet; Special Guest Sophia Le Fraga
HW: read excerpts from People I've Met From the Internet

 Th 2/27 Class visit with Stephen Van Dyck, author of People I've Met From the Internet; Introduce Experiment #3


 Week Six

 T 3/3 Workshop Experiment #3/Lab
HW: Complete experiment #3

 Th 3/5 No Class - Professor at Conference

 Week Seven

 T 3/10 Present Experiment #3, Wrap Up Poetry After the Internet conversation

 Th 3/12 We Live in Public film
HW: Reading TBA


Week Eight 

T 3/17 Spring Break

Th  3/19 Spring Break

 Week Nine

T 3/24 We Live in Public finish film, conversation
HW: watch/read the following:

Th 3/26 Discuss Camming as Performance Art / Introduce Experiment #4 
HW: Complete Experiment

 Week 10

T 3/31 Present Experiments / Wrap up Camming as Performance Art convo
HW: watch/read:
Th 4/2 Discuss Interventions in Online Spaces / Introduce Experiment #5
HW: Work on experiment

Week 11

T 4/7 Lab / Workshop Experiment #5
HW: Complete Experiment #5

Th 4/9 Present Experiment #5, Wrap Up Conversation for Interventions

 Week 12

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