Final Project Theory List

Genre Theroy:
Mikhail Bakhtin- "Speech Genres"
J. L. Austin- "How to Do Things with Words"

Theories of Place:
Discourses in Place: Language in the Material World- Ron Scollon and Suzie Wong Scollon

Chapter 1: Geosemiotics
Chapter 4: Visual Semiotics
Chapter 5: Interlude on Geosemiotics


(Video)Game theory:
(Select at least 3)

Articles from First Person
Janet Murray- "From Game-Story to Cyberdrama"
Markku Eskelinen- "Towards Computer Game Studies"
Espen Aarseth- "Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of Simulation"
Gonzalo Frasca- "Videogames of the Oppressed: Critical Thinking, Education, Tolerance, and
Other Trivial Issues"
Natalie Jeremijenko- "If Things Can Talk, What Do They Say? If We Can Talk to Things, What
Do We Say? Using Voice Chips and Speech Recognition Chips to Explore Structures of
Participation in Sociotechnical Scripts"

or, if you can get it:

James Paul Gee: Part 1 from What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy

Comic Theory

Scott McCloud: Understanding Comics (the rest of the book)

New Media Theory I:
Marshall McCluhan- "Part I" from Understanding Media

New Media Theory II:
Lev Manovich: "1. What Is New Media?" from The Language of New Media
Lev Manovich- "6. What Is Cinema?" from The Language of New Media

Visual Rhetoric:
Roland Barthes: "Rhetoric of the Image"
Gunther Kress- "Multimodality, Multimedia, and Genre"


Visual Rhetoric II

5 additional chapters from Elkins' How To Use Your Eyes
Theories of Digital Democracy:
Robert Putnam: Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of the American Community

Digital Democracy II
From Virtual Culture
Nessim Watson- "Why We Argue about Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan
Community"
Harris Breslow- "Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet"