ENGLISH 131
Culture and Art on the World Wide Web
Recognized internationally as a benchmark course on the relationship between the humanities and the internet, Critical Surfing investigates the literary and artistic depth of the internet. Beginning with the history of the book on the Net, the course discusses important and exciting web sites of art, culture, and cultural politics, including the professor's electronic art catalogue, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-Rom,and multimedia journal, Ctheory multimedia. Working in Cornell's sophisticated electronic writing classroom, students will develop creative and critical writing projects on digital museums and galleries, new sites of popular culture, electronic soap operas, and artistic CD-Roms with their own Web sites. We also will review "hot" controversies generated by the WWW, from the status of unsolicited racist and sexist communications over e-mail to the debate over the censorship of sexual content on the WWW. Does the Web simply electrify traditional notions of art and culture or does it offer new vistas of politics, identity, and artistic expression?
Place: Uris Hall, G28; Time: M-F, 1:00-2:15
Instructors:
Timothy Murray, Professor of English; Office: 285 Goldwin Smith Hall; Phone: (607)255-4012
Hermán Carroll, Instructor in English
Course Materials
Dawn Rodrigues and Myron C. Tuman, Writing Essentials (Norton)
This course is a section of
English 131, "Critical Reading and Writing," offered by the
John S. Knight Writing Program.
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