Media:

domain and website host
*while Pitt offers students free domains and hosting service, this service is extremely limited.
*I recommend you invest in your own domain and private hosting service. we will discuss this in class.

Memory Stick/Portable External Drive
*You will need a minimum of 16G of memory.
*This memory key will be used exclusively for this class.

Booklist: Available in the bookstore and on reserve at the library

Bergson, Henri.  Matter and Memory.  (Zone Books, 1991).**

Galloway, Alexander. Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (MIT, 2004),**

Galloway, Alexander and Eugene Thacker.  The Exploit (University of Minnesota, 2007).**

Gitelman, Lisa. Always Already New: Media, History and the Data of Culture (MIT UP, 2008).**

Kirschenbaum, Matthew. Mechanisms: New Media and the Forensic Imagination (MIT UP, 2008).**

Kress, Gunther and Theo Van Leeuwen, Multimodal Discourse: The Modes and Media of Contemporary Communication (Hodder, 2001)**

Liu, Alan. The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information (University of Chicago, 2004).**

Murray, Joddy. Non-Discursive Rhetoric: Image and Affect in Multimodal Composition (SUNY UP, 2009).**

Raley, Rita. Tactical Media (University of Minnesota, 2009).**

Rice, Jeff. The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media (Southern Illinois UP, 2007).**

Spinoza, Benedict de. Trans R. Elwes. On the Improvemet of the Understanding. The Ethics. Correspondence. (Dover, 1955).**

Terranova, Tiziana. Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age (Pluto, 2004).**