{"id":7,"date":"2017-01-14T22:03:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T22:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2017-04-20T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T13:03:49","slug":"calendar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I: Representations<\/h2>\n<p>In this section we&#8217;ll explore the way various narrative forms represent the intersection of death and technology, focusing particularly on horror. These representations include examples from fiction, film, and videogames.<\/p>\n<h4>Tuesday, January 17 (Week 1)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction<\/li>\n<li>The Ghost of Bob Ross<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, January 19<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Walter Benjamin, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/benjamin-the-storyteller.pdf\">&#8220;The Storyteller&#8221;<\/a> (1936)<\/li>\n<li>Ray Bradbury, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/bradbury-soft-rains.pdf\">&#8220;There Will Come Soft Rains&#8221;<\/a> (1950)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, January 24 (Week 2)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Be Right Back&#8221; from <i>Black Mirror<\/i> (season 2, episode 1) [Screening on Sunday, January 22, 8pm Hance Auditorium]<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, January 26<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Be Right Back&#8221; continued (with in-class <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/be-right-back-scene-analysis\/\">scene analysis<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Isabel Pinedo, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/stable\/20688091\">&#8220;Recreational Terror: Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film&#8221;<\/a> from <i>The Journal of Film and Video <\/i>(1996)<\/li>\n<li>Screening on Sunday, January 29 at 8pm in Chambers 2164: <i>The Exorcist <\/i>(1973, dir. William Friedkin)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, January 31 (Week 3)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Tremblay, chapters 1-5 of <i>A Head Full of Ghosts<\/i> (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Barbara Creed, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/creed-woman-as-possessed-monster.pdf\">&#8220;Woman as Possessed Monster&#8221;<\/a> from <i>The Monstrous-Feminine<\/i> (1993)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 2<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapters 6-17 of <i>A Head Full of Ghosts<\/i><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/postmodern-horror-snapchat-story\/\">Postmodern Horror Snapchat<\/a> project handed out<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 7 (Week 4)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapters 18-22 of <i>A Head Full of Ghosts<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 9<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Chapters 23-26 of<i> A Head Full of Ghosts<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Postmodern Horror Snapchat Story due<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 14 (Week 5)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Dead Set<\/i>, episode 1-2 (search for &#8220;Dead Set&#8221; on Netflix)<\/li>\n<li>Susan Sontag, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/sontag-imagination-of-disaster.pdf\">&#8220;The Imagination of Disaster&#8221;<\/a> from <i>Against Interpretation\u00a0 <\/i>(1965)<\/li>\n<li>Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/monster-theory-seven-theses.pdf\">&#8220;Monster Culture (Seven Theses)&#8221;<\/a> from <em>Monster Theory: Reading Culture<\/em> (1996)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 16<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Dead Set<\/i>, episodes 3-5 (with <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/dead-set-theory\/\">in-class scene analysis<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Kyle William Bishop, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/bishop-american-zombie-gothic.pdf\">Introduction<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/davidson.on.worldcat.org\/oclc\/607552643?databaseList=638\"><i>American Zombie Gothic<\/i><\/a> (2010)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/comparative-horror-analysis\/\">Comparative Horror Analysis<\/a> assigned<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 21 (Week 6)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Carly Kocurek, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/1472586X.2015.996402\">&#8220;Who Hearkens to the Monster&#8217;s Scream: Death, Violence, and the Veil of the Monstrous in Video Games&#8221;<\/a> from <i>Visual Studies <\/i>(2015)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, February 23<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Ewan Kirkland, <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1555412008325483\">\u201cResident Evil\u2019s Typewriter: Survival Horror and Its Remediations\u201d<\/a> from <i>Games and Culture<\/i> (2009)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>II: Social Media<\/h2>\n<p>In this section we&#8217;ll examine death and its expression and consequences on social media and the Internet, including the recurring theme of communing with the dead through technology.<\/p>\n<h4>Tuesday, February 28 (Week 7)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Natalie Zarrelli, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone\">&#8220;Dial-a-Ghost on Thomas Edison&#8217;s Least Successful Invention: the Spirit Phone&#8221;<\/a> from <i>Atlas Obscura<\/i> (2016)<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PhoneCallFromTheDead\">Phone Call from the Dead<\/a> trope<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 2<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonathan Sterne, pages 287-311 of <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/sterne-resonant-tomb.pdf\">&#8220;A Resonant Tomb&#8221;<\/a> from <i>The Audible Past <\/i>(2003)<\/li>\n<li>Comparative Contemporary Horror Analysis due by midnight March 1<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 7 (Week 8)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring Break (No Classes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 9<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Spring Break (No Classes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 14 (Week 9)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Jed Brubaker, Gillian Hayes, and Paul Dourish, <a href=\"https:\/\/ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=87449560&amp;site=ehost-live\">\u201cBeyond the Grave: Facebook as a Site for the Expansion of Death and Mourning\u201d<\/a> from <i>The Information Society <\/i>(2013)<\/li>\n<li>Connor Graham et al.,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com.ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/1472586X.2015.996395?needAccess=true\">\u201cGravesites and Websites: A Comparison of Memorialisation\u201d<\/a> from <i>Visual Studies<\/i> (2015)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/haunted-media-project\/\">Haunted Media Project<\/a> assigned<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 16<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric Meyer, <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/eric\/thoughts\/2014\/12\/24\/inadvertent-algorithmic-cruelty\/\">Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty<\/a> (2014)<\/li>\n<li>Whitney Phillips, <a href=\"http:\/\/firstmonday.org\/ojs\/index.php\/fm\/article\/view\/3168\/3115\">LOLing at tragedy: Facebook trolls, memorial pages and resistance to grief online<\/a> from <i>First Monday <\/i>(2011)<\/li>\n<li>Megan Garber, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2016\/01\/enter-the-grief-police\/424746\/\">Enter the Grief Police<\/a> from <i>The Atlanta <\/i>(2016)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 21 (Week 10)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Rob Walker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/09\/magazine\/09Immortality-t.html\">Cyberspace when You&#8217;re Dead<\/a> from <i>New York Times<\/i> (2011)<\/li>\n<li>Alex Senemar, <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@kavehsenemar\/what-happens-to-your-data-when-you-die-f19ec491abe#.ezheqcrao\">What Happens to Your Data when You Die?<\/a> from <i>Medium <\/i>(2015)<\/li>\n<li>Ethan Chiel, <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/story\/274773\/twitter-bots-after-death\/\">What Happens to a Twitter Bot after Its Maker Dies?<\/a> from <i>Fusion<\/i> (2016)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 23<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>No Class: work on Haunted Media Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>III:\u00a0 Augmented Death<\/h2>\n<p>In this section we&#8217;ll consider the changes to death, dying, and the afterlife in the offline world wrought by contemporary technology.<\/p>\n<h4>Tuesday, March 28 (Week 11)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Lex Berko, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/12\/death-on-the-internet-the-rise-of-livestreaming-funerals\/383646\/\">Death on the Internet: The Rise of Livestreaming Funerals<\/a> from <i>The Atlantic <\/i>(2014)<\/li>\n<li>Tamara Kneese, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/05\/qr-codes-for-the-dead\/370901\/\">QR Codes for the Dead<\/a> from <i>The Atlantic <\/i>(2014)<\/li>\n<li>Shahak Shapira, <a href=\"http:\/\/yolocaust.de\/\">Yolocaust<\/a> (2017)<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, March 30<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Read at least two articles from <i>Fusion<\/i>&#8216;s series on <a href=\"http:\/\/fusion.net\/series\/death\/\">the future of death<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Haunted Media Project MVP due in class<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 4 (Week 12)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Alexandra Sherlock, <a href=\"https:\/\/ezproxy.lib.davidson.edu\/login?url=http:\/\/search.ebscohost.com\/login.aspx?direct=true&amp;db=a9h&amp;AN=87449561&amp;site=ehost-live\">&#8220;Larger than Life: Digital Resurrection and the Re-Enchantment of Society&#8221;<\/a> from <i>The Information Society<\/i> (2013)<\/li>\n<li>Celebrity Deaths and Afterlife: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/9056455\/Selling-the-dead.html\">Selling the dead<\/a>, Behind the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tupac-coachella-hologram-behind-the-technology\/\">Tupac hologram<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-film-resurrections-analysis-idUSKBN14J1TU\">the resurrection of Hollywood actors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 6<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"csl-entry\">Haunted Media Project due<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 11 (Week 13)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Robin Marantz Henig, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/11\/magazine\/death-by-robot.html\">\u201cDeath by Robot\u201d<\/a> from <i>The New York Times <\/i>(January 9, 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Danny Yadron and Dan Tynan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/jun\/30\/tesla-autopilot-death-self-driving-car-elon-musk\">\u201cTesla Driver Dies in First Fatal Crash While Using Autopilot Mode\u201d<\/a> from <i>The Guardian <\/i>(June 30, 2016)<\/li>\n<li>Jack Stewart, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2017\/01\/probing-teslas-deadly-crash-feds-say-yay-self-driving\/\">\u201cAfter Probing Tesla\u2019s Deadly Crash, Feds Say Yay to Self-Driving\u201d<\/a> from <i>Wired (<\/i>January 20, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>Final Project handed out<\/li>\n<li>Blog: Group C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 13<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Ganna Yankovska and Kevin Hannam, <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/dig215\/documents\/dark-and-toxic-tourism.pdf\">\u201cDark and Toxic Tourism in the Chernobyl Exclusion 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