Assignment for next week (February 20th)
Posted by kscott on February 14, 2007
Due to the snow storm and canceled class last night, I have moved the first essay paper due date back by one week. Therefore, Essay #1 will now be due on February 27th, instead of next week. I also moved up a reading from the week of the 27th to next week (to make the reading lighter during the week your essay is due). So please make sure that you note the additional reading for next week (Donna Haraway’s “Cyborg Manifesto”). I also took away the previous Turkle article.
For next week, please read the following:
- Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the Late Twenthieth Century,” (CR 291)
- Diana Gromala, “Pain and Subjectivity in Virtual Reality,” (CR 598).
Instead of blogging about the readings for next week, please start giving some serious thought to your Essay #1 topic, and post an essay proposal here with the following information:
- What is the question that you want to explore and/or attempt to answer with this essay?
- What sources from our class assigned reading do you expect to utilize in attempting to further explore and answer your question?
- Suggest at least two outside/independent resources that you expect to utilize (scholarly writing that we have NOT read for class) and give a very general summary of what those resources talk about/speak to and HOW you anticipate they might help you answer your question.
Once you have sent in this information to the blog, I will read and make suggestions for each of you, if needed, and then approve your essay proposal.
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to email me.
