Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
1 Semester
3 Hours per Week
Hawthorn
Nil
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
An elective unit of study in the Graduate Certificate of Arts (Applied Media) ,Graduate Diploma of Arts (Applied Media) , Master of Arts in Applied Media and Master of Arts (Communications) NB: HAM410 will not be offered from 2008 onwards. Please refer to HAM435 Network Literacies which now replaces HAM410.
Through the course of the semester, students should be able to: Identify the most prominent arguments relating to electronic writing. Critically discuss and assess emerging theories relating to electronic writing. Demonstrate an understanding of basic HTML. Demonstrate an understanding of what it means to develop a rhetoric of electronic writing and to demonstrate that understanding through application. Students will access the Internet and will develop writing skills designed for the electronic environment, using authoring and graphics packages. Software used includes Dreamweaver, Cooledit, Paintshop Pro, Animation Shop and Fireworks.
Through the course of the semester, students should be able to:
Students will access the Internet and will develop writing skills designed for the electronic environment, using authoring and graphics packages. Software used includes Dreamweaver, Cooledit, Paintshop Pro, Animation Shop and Fireworks.
Lectures and studio based tutorials
Hypertext Glossary Exercise 30%, Major Project 55%, Participation 15%
Developed independent research skills. Enhanced ability to develop and formulate a coherent argument. Developed analytical and conceptual skills. Enhanced problem solving skills. Extended ability to communicate both verbally and in writing. Become familiar with the use of online technologies. Become familiar with web authoring and image and sound manipulation software. Become familiar with the use of e-mail, discussion boards and listservs.
This unit of study critically examines current theory relating to electronic writing and, in particular, hypertext. Does the embodiment of electronic writing in the form of stand alone hypertext applications or in the form of the World Wide Web (through Hypertext Markup Up Language - HTML) change our relationship as readers to the written word? Does electronic writing, as Mark Poster argues, represent a third stage in the mode of information in which 'the self is decentred, dispersed, and multiplied in continuous instability?'Alongside these questions, students will be introduced to the basics of HTML and asked to consider the experience of writing in an online, electronic environment (namely, the WWW). What are the rules (if any) which govern this new writing space and to what extent has a rhetoric of electronic writing been developed? Students will be encouraged to rethink the concept of writing and to ask themselves such elusive questions as, what is a medium?
Bolter, J, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext and the History of Writing, Earlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, 1991.Delany P & Landow, G (eds), Hypermedia and Literary Studies, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991.Ulmer, G, Heuretics: The Logic of Invention, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1994.
