Software Resources and Suggested Reading

This is the resources page.  Here I’ll have nest resources I’ve put together especially for this class, and I will also have external sources you can use to delve deeper into some of these tools.

COURSE SPECIFIC

These are course specific resources, so don’t be surprised if they are changed or built on top of based on our class conversations.

HTML Template 1

HTML Template 2 – NOTE: This HTML template is meant to be used with CSS Template 1

CSS Template 1 – NOTE: This CSS template is meant to be used with HTML Template 2

Image Scaling in Gimp

Animated GIF Construction in Gimp

 

EXTERNAL SOFTWARE RESOURCES

HTML5 Tutorial

Twitter Bootstrap Getting Started

Getting Started with Gimp

Video Editing with Blender

 

SUGGESTED READING

 Software Takes Command – Lev Manovich

Debates in Digital Humanities  – Editor: Matt Gold

How We Became Posthuman – Katherine Hayles

Two Bits – Christopher Kelty

The Precession of the Simulacra – Jean Baudrillard

The Precession of the Simulacra (“American” translation/Parody(?)) – Translator: Sean Joseph Patrick Carney

Understanding Media – Marshall McLuhan

Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky

Print 10

Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema – Laura Mulvey

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction – Walter Benjamin

_why’s Poignant Guide to Ruby – _why The Lucky Stiff

Computer Lib/Dream Machines – Ted Nelson

Cultural Criticism and Transformation – Bell Hooks