Hauptseminar Cybersemiotics linguistics and semiotics of the new media

Cybersemiotics: Linguistics and semiotics of the new media Technology and the new media are inseparable from contemporary culture, without which science, art, work, entertainment, and education, in sum, the whole range of social interaction has become unthinkable. What is going on at the interface of humans and machines and what do these developments mean to culture and art at the beginning of the 21st century? From a semiotic point of view this course will discuss the current reconstitutions of social, cultural and artistic lives and their impact on the contemporary media. Topics: The computer as a medium; internet language and medium; e-mail as a medium; medium and message; media and culture from a semiotic point of view; interactivity, posthuman culture; cyborgs; self-reference; machines: instruments or media? Reader: The course material will be made available in the form of a Reader; Details to be announced on April 13. Literature: see library reserve shelf, especially Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort (eds.). 2003. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Mary Anne Moser and Douglas MacLeod. 1996. Immersed in Technology. Art and virtual environments, (eds.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. M. Featherstone e R. Burrows (eds.). 1996. Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunks. Cultures of Technological Embodiment, London: Sage This course will take place twice a week on the following dates: April 13 (first meeting), 16, 20, 23, 27, 30, May 4, June 18, 22, 25, July 2, 6, 9, 13 (Klausur) There are three alternative options (and requirements) for credits: (1) Credit for term paper (Hausarbeit): regular attendance and participation, one in-class -presentation- (of the main ideas and topics a chapter on the agenda of this course) for discussion in class, Hausarbeit / Term Paper according to the requirements of the applicable -Modulstudienordnung- (no final test / Klausur) (2) Credit for Final Test / Klausur: regular attendance and participation, one in-class -presentation- (of the main ideas and topics a chapter on the agenda of this course) for discussion in class and Final Test / Klausur (no term paper) (3) Credit for mere -Studienleistung- (if applicable): regular attendance and one in-class -presentation- (of the main ideas and topics a chapter on the agenda of this course) for discussion in class (no final test / Klausur), informal -Lecture Notes- to be handed in at the end of the semester. FB 02 Institut für Anglistik / Amerikanistik Uni Kassel SoSe 2012 Lehrveranstaltungspool FB 02 English and American Culture and Business Studies Prof. i.R. Nöth Winfried i.R