PhD Logistics

Dissertation

• The Dead Media Handbook - http://www.conceptlab.com/deadmedia/ (Dissertation)
• Theories of Media Change - http://www.conceptlab.com/change/ (Being integrated into "The Dead Media Handbook")

Academic Context

• Institution: University of California, Irvine
• Program: Visual Studies Program (Media Theory & History)
• Degree: PhD
• Dissertation co-advisors: Mark Poster & Peter Krapp. Dissertation committee member: Cecile Whiting.
• Advancement to Candidacy (ABD): June 14th 2007.
• Qualifying exam committee: Mark Poster (History, Chair: Film & Media Studies), Peter Krapp (Film & Media Studies), and Ed Dimendberg (Film & Media Studies). Bill Tomlinson (Informatics) and Cecile Whiting (Art History) sat as external members.
• Written exam dates (complete): May 21 2007 (Krapp), May 23rd 2007 (Dimendberg), May 25th 207 (Poster)
• Oral exam completed June 5th 2007 (2-4pm, HIB 136)
• Second language: French, translation exam completed Spring 2007.
  
• Funding: UCI Visual Studies Program, CalIT2
• Coursework completed Spring 2006, and course listings and notes can be seen at http://www.conceptlab.com/uci/
• See http://www.conceptlab.com for a listing of other ongoing activities.
• CV: http://www.conceptlab.com/garnethertz/

PhD Reading Lists

Peter Krapp: Media Technology in Transition

• Akrich & Latour, "A Summary of a Convenient Vocabulary for the Semiotics of Human and Nonhuman Assemblies"
• Akrich, "The De-Scription of Technical Objects"
• Bijker & Law (eds), "Shaping Technology / Building Society - Studies in Sociotechnical Change" (Section intros: "Do Technologies Have Trajectories?", "Strategies, Resources, and the Shaping of Technology", "What's Next? Technology, Theory and Method", and "Postsript: Technology, Stability, and Social Theory")
• Bijker, "The Social Construction of Fluorescent Lighting, or How an Artifact Was Invented in Its Diffusion Stage"
• Carlson, "Artifacts and Frames of Meaning: Thomas A. Edison, His Managers, and the Cultural Construction of Motion Pictures"
• Chapman, "Comparitive Media History"
• Chun, "Did Somebody Say New Media?"
• Duguid, "Material Matters: Aspects of the past and futurology of the book", from The Future of the Book (Duguid, ed.) - http://www2.parc.com/ops/members/brown/papers/mm.html
• Feenberg, "Transforming Technology: A Critical Theory Revisited"
• Foulger, "The Processes of Media Invention and Evolution." http://evolutionarymedia.com/papers/hammerAsMedium.htm
• Galloway, "Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization"
• Gartner Inc., "Hype Cycle Special Report for 2005"
• Gartner Inc., "Hype Cycles for the Media Industry, 2005"
• Gartner Inc., "Understanding Gartner's Hype Cycles, 2005"
• Gitelman, "Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture"
• Gitelman, "New Media, 1740-1915 (Media in Transition)"
• Gitelman, "Scripts, Grooves, and Writing Machines"
• Jenkins (2006), "Convergence Culture"
• Kuhn, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions"
• Latour, "Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane Artifacts"
• Law & Callon, "The Life and Death of an Aircraft: A Network Analysis of Technical Change"
• Liu (2004), "The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information"
• Lovink, "My First Recession: Critical Internet Culture in Transition"
• Moore, G. E. (1965), "Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits" - http://download.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespaper.pdf (also see http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/index.htm)
• Rogers, "Diffusion of Innovations, 5th Edition"
• Smith & Marx (eds.), "Does Technology Drive History? The Dilemma of Technological Determinism"
• Sterling (2005), "Shaping Things (Mediaworks Pamphlets)"
• Thorburn & Jenkins (eds.) "Rethinking Media Change. The Aesthetics of Transition"
• Winston, (1998). "Media Technology and Society : A History : From the Telegraph to the Internet." Routledge.

• Bijker, "Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (Inside Technology)"
• Basalla, "The Evolution of Technology"
• Heidegger, "The Question Concerning Technology"
• Hughes, "The Evolution of Large Technological Systems", in The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology, Wiebe Bijker (ed)
• MacKenzie, "Knowing Machines: Essays on Technical Change (Inside Technology)"
• Rajagopal, "Imperceptible Perceptions in Our Technological Modernity"
• Chapman (2005), "Comparative Media History: An Introduction: 1789 to the Present"
• Gartner Inc., "Hype Cycles for Collaboration and Communication, 2005"
• Gartner Inc., "Hype Cycles for Networking and Communications, 2005"
• Gartner Inc., "Hype Cycles for PC Technologies, 2005"
• Gartner Inc., "Hype Cycles for Telecommunications, 2005"

Ed Dimendberg: Media History - Cinematic & Moving Image Technologies

• Abel (ed), "Encyclopedia of Early Cinema"
• Braun, "Picturing Time: The Work of Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)"
• Burch, "Life to Those Shadows"
• Ceram, "Archaeology of the Cinema"
• Crary, "Modernity and the Problem of the Observer"
• Crary, "Techniques of the Observer. On Vision and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century"
• Elsaesser, "Early Cinema: Space, Frame, Narrative"
• "Film Before Film" (VHS Video, 1986), Kino Video
• Gunning, "An Aesthetic of Astonishment: Early Film and the [In]Credulous Spectator" in Viewing Positions, ed. Linda Williams (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1995)
• Gunning, "The Cinema of Attractions: Early Film, Its Spectator and the Avant-Garde"; in Early Film ed. Thomas Elsaesser and Adam Barker (British Film Institute, 1989)
• Gunning, "Vienna Avant-Garde and Early Cinema", http://www.sixpackfilm.com/archive/veranstaltung/festivals/earlycinema/symposion/symposion_gunning.html#1
• Gunning, "Phantasmagoria: The Technology of the Moving Picture as a Model for Human Perception", http://cri.histart.umontreal.ca/Grafics/colloques/domitor/Resume-conferenciers/Gunning.htm
• Gunning, "Illusions Past and Future: The Phantasmagoria and its Specters", http://www.mediaarthistory.org/Programmatic%20key%20texts/pdfs/Gunning.pdf
• Gunning, "From Kaleidoscope to the X-Ray: Urban Spectatorship, Poe, Benjamin and Traffic is Souls (1913)" in Wide Angle, Vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 25-63.
• Musser, "The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907 (History of the American Cinema, Vol 1)"
• Stafford, "Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen" (Getty Trust Publications: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities)

• Burch, "To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in Japanese Cinema"
• Ernst, "Dis/continuities"
• Hankins & Silverman, "Instruments and the Imagination". Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995
• Huhtamo, "From Kaleidoscopomaniac to Cybernerd"
• Huhtamo, "Time Travelling in the Gallery"
• Marvin, "When Old Technologies were New. Thinking About Electric Communication in the late Nineteenth Century". New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
• Manovich, "The Language of New Media" (MIT 2002)
• Manovich, "An Archaeology of a Computer Screen"
• Zielinski, "An Anarchaeology of Hearing and Seeing Through Technical Means"
• Zielinski, "Media Archaeology"
• Zielinski, "Deep Time of the Media"
• Zielinski, "Audiovisions. Cinema and Television as Entr'Actes in History". Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 1999.

Mark Poster: New Media

• Borges (1941) The Garden of Forking Paths *
• Bush (1945) As We May Think *
• Turing (1950) Computing Machinery and Intelligence *
• Weiner (1954) Men, Machines, and the World About *
• Sutherland (1963) Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System *
• Ascott (1964) The Construction of Change *
• Nelson (1974) Computer Lib / Dream Machines *
• Berners-Lee et al. (1994) The World-Wide Web *

• Innis (1947) Minerva's Owl, in (1951) The Bias of Communication, pp 3-32.
• Innis (1949) The Bias of Communication, in (1951) The Bias of Communication, pp 33-60.
• McLuhan (1964) "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man".
• McLuhan, "Media and Cultural Change," in Essential McLuhan, pp. 89-96.
• McLuhan & McLuhan (1988) Laws of Media: The New Science.
• Kroker (1984) Technological Humanism: The Processed World of Marshall McLuhan, in (1984) Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant, pp 52-86. *
• Kroker (1984) Technological Realism: Harold Innis' Empire of Comunication, in (1984) Technology and the Canadian Mind: Innis/McLuhan/Grant, pp 87-124. *
• Moulthrop (1991) You Say You Want a Revolution? Hypertext and the Laws of Media -
• Bolter & Grusin, "Remediation: Understanding New Media" +*

• Poster (2006), "Information Please"
• Poster (2001), "What's the Matter with the Internet"
• Poster (1995), "The 2nd Media Age"
• Poster (1990), "The Mode of Information"

• Enzensberger (1970) Constituents of a Theory of the Media
• Baudrillard (1972) Requiem for the Media
• Winner (1986) Mythinformation
• Nichols (1986) The Work of Culture in the Age of Cybernetic Systems
• Manovich (2002) The Language of New Media
• Manovich (2003) New Media from Borges to HTML