Gender and Technoculture
WMST 320 - Spring 2013
Women & Gender and Queer Studies
California State University, Fullerton
Prof: Karyl E. Ketchum, Ph.D.
Office: Humanities 212D
Office hours: Mon/Wed 12:00-1:00 and by Appointment
Message Center: (657) 278-2480 (I generally receive messages left here within 24 hours)
Email: kketchum@fullerton.edu
Cell: 714.625.3616
Course Facebook Page: "CSUF WMST 320," http://www.facebook.com/groups/168089053293947/
Course Documents & Important Links:
Key Terms and Concepts in Gender Studies
CSUFullerton Women & Gender Studies and Queer Studies website
Link to CSUF student pricing for Adobe Creative Suite!
Photoshop Midterm Project
Principles of Film Theory Guide
Gender & Technoculture Film Fest Review Sheet!!!
Note: Segments of this course are “flipped”! This means that I will rarely lecture in class; rather, you will be watching several short vlogs (video+blogs) that I have made that discuss the core concepts of this course. This is great news because it means that when we are in class together we can spend our time talking to each other, doing things, and making cool stuff with technology! These vlogs are posted on our course TITANium site and I will remind you when each vlog is due. Not all sets of readings will have vlogs. You should know the material covered in these vlogs for our online quizzes. For more information on the idea of a flipped classroom go here: here.
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Course Readings and Assignments Schedule:
** This syllabus and schedule will adapt and evolve based on group interests, current events, sand time constraints!
Mon 1/28:
Review syllabus, questions, Introductions, TITANium site
Wed 1/30: Introductions & Gender Studies 101
Reading:
Spender, Dale. "Language and Reality: Who Made the World?" The Routledge Language and Cultural Theory Reader. Ed. Tony Crowly and Alan Girvin Lucy Burke. The Politics of Language. London: Routledge, 1980. 145-53.
Gender Studies 101 Some key terms and basic principles . . . great stuff!
Lab: Introduce Second Life
Mon 2/4: THEME: Sex and Identity Online
Reading:
Stone, Sandy. "Split Subjects, Not Atoms; or, How I Fell in Love with My Prosthesis." The Cyborg Handbook. Ed. Chris Hables Gray. New York: Routledge, 1995. 393-406.
Some cool Sandy Stone quotes (not required reading but for those interested in her work!) : http://www.egs.edu/faculty/sandy-stone/quotes/
Cannon, Robert Alan Brookey and Kristopher L. "Sex Lives in Second Life." Gender, Race and Class in Media. Ed. Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez. Los Angeles: Sage, 2011. 571-82.Washington Post article “Does Virtual Reality Need a Sheriff?”
Vlog(s):
Please view both vlogs entitled, "Thoughts on the Readings by Stone and Turkle!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site!!
Wed 2/6:
Second Life, screen shots
SL Quick Start Guide
Places in Second Life to check out!
Mon 2/11: THEME: Technology’s Gendered Language
Reading:
Halberstam, Judith. "Automating Gender: Postmodern Feminism in the Age of the Intelligent Machine." Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender and Technology. Ed. Patrick D. Hopkins. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. 468-83.
Vlog(s):
Please view both vlogs under "Thoughts on "Automating Gender" by Judith Jack Halberstam!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site!!
Wed 2/13:
Lab: Begin Photoshop Tutorials
Mon 2/18:
President’s Day—no class
Please view the vlog under "Thoughts on Visual Theory!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site! WARNING: it’s a bit long!!
Wed 2/20:
Lab: Discuss Photoshop gallery assignment
Photoshop Tutorials
"Content Aware" tutorial
"Puppet Warp" tutorial--cool stuff!!!
Mon 2/25: THEME: Photoshop, Seeing, and the “Truth-Value” of Images
Reading:
Kember, Sarah. Virtual Anxiety: Photography, New Technologies and Subjectivity. New York: Redwood Books, 1998. Chap 1 – The Shadow of the Object: Photography and Realism.
Please go through this Index of Kember-related Images
“Photo Tampering Throughout History,” On the Four & Six site—a company specializing in “image forensics” http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/ *peruse the entire image archive but pay particular attention to the more recent fakes on page 11 & 12!
Vlog(s):
Please view both vlogs under "Thoughts on "The Shadow of the Object: Photography & Realism" by Sarah Kember!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site!!
Video:
Extreme Photoshop (we will watch this together in-class)
Wed 2/27:
Lab:
Film: Unmanned (22 min.)
Mon 3/4: THEME: Gender, Technology and Militarism
Reading:
Strauss, David Levi. "Breakdown in the Gray Room: Recent Turns in the Image War." Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture. Berkeley: Terra Nova, 2004. 87-101.
Video:
Wikileaks and "Collateral Murder" (We will watch this together in class)
Guest Speakers: Pat Alviso & Jeff Merrick from Military Families Speak Out
Wed 3/6:
Lab: Open lab —work on Photoshop gallery due 3/13!!!
Mon 3/11: THEME: Gender, Social Media and Revolution
Reading:
Juan Cole and Shahin Cole, “An Arab spring for women - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition”, April 26, 2011, http://mondediplo.com/openpage/an-arab-spring-for-women
Mona El-Naggar, “Equal Rights Takes to the Barricades - NYTimes.com”, February 1, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/02/world/middleeast/02iht-letter02.html?_r=1
Video:
“Egypt: The viral vlog of Asmaa Mahfouz that helped spark an uprising – Boing Boing”, February 2, 2011, http://boingboing.net/2011/02/02/egypt-the-viral-vlog.html ***(Please watch this BEFORE coming to class)
Vlog(s):
Please view the vlog under "Thoughts on Social Media & the Arab Spring!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site!
Film:
For Neda (70 min) (we will watch this together in-class)
For Discussion:
UCLA's Hypercities Project on Egypt
Youtube on UCLA's Iran Hypercities Project
Hypercities Project, Tehran the day Neda was murdered
Wed 3/13:
Film: For Neda (70 min) (we will watch this together in-class)
Open Lab until 3:30!!
Mon 3/18: THEME: The Semiotics of Gender, Race and Technology
Reading:
Rodriguez, Vernadette V. Gonzlez and Robyn Magalit. "Filipina.Com: Wives, Workers and Whores on the Cyberfrontier." An Introduction to Women's Studies :Gender in a Transnational World. Ed. Inderpal Grewal and Caren Kaplan. Vol. 2. New York: Mc Graw-Hill, 2006. 375-79.
Wed 3/20:
Lab: Open Lab
&
Facegen Software – bring in three pictures of yourself for use in Facegen (one straight on, one right profile, one left profile)
Mon 3/25: THEME: The Semiotics of Gender, Race and Technology (con’t)
Reading:
Nakamura, L. (2009). Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: The Racialization of Labor in World of Warcraft. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 26, 128-144.
Vlog(s): Please view both vlogs under "Thoughts on Cyberporn!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site!
Lab: Facegen Software – bring in three pictures of yourself for use in Facegen (one straight on, one right profile, one left profile)
Wed 3/27:
PHOTOSHOP GALLERIES DUE TODAY!!!!
For Discussion:
Youtube on Hitchcock’s “Third Meaning” or the "Kulashov Effect"
**View sample film projects from previous semesters**
Lab: Camtasia
Mon 4/1:
César Chávez Day – no class
Wed 4/3:THEME: Technology, Censorship and Freedom
Spring Break – no class
READING:
Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Chap 1 and 2.
Mon 4/8: THEME: Psychoanalysis and Theorizing the Filmic Gaze
Reading:
Sturken, Marita, and Lisa Cartwright. “Spectatorship, Power and Knowledge,” Practices of Looking : An Introduction to Visual Culture. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Koedt, Anne. "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm." CWL Herstory Online Archive (1970).
Vlog(s):
Please view the vlog under "Thoughts on Vision, Visibility and Power!" on our Course TITANium/Moodle site!
For Discussion: Principles of Film Theory Guide
Film: This Film is Not Yet Rated [97 min.]
Wed 4/10:
Lab:
Film: This Film is Not Yet Rated [97 min.]
Mon 4/15: THEME: Technology Versus Biology: Disciplining the Body
Reading:
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Chap 3, “Of Gender and Genitals” pg 45-77.
Go over FINAL PROJECT ASSIGNMENT!!!
For Discussion: Principles of Film Theory Guide
For Discussion: Youtube on film techniques
Show Mireya's Project
Show Miriam amd Ashley's Project
Show Eleonor's Project
Video:
Jamie McCartney’s “Great Wall of Vagina” (we will watch this together in-class)
Film: Intersexion [68 min.] or, http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Karyl_Ketchum/intersexion/player.html
Wed 4/17:
Nicolas Berendsen (last image post)
Sarah Stoddard (show post of your choice)
Citlally Contreras (show post of your choice)
Trent Stanton (middle image post)
Leila Huff (Internet Brides post)
Linda Tran (first post)
Jamie McCartney’s “Great Wall of Vagina” (we will watch this together in-class)
Film: We left out at about 10:11!! Intersexion [68 min.] or, http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Karyl_Ketchum/intersexion/player.html
Lab: Camtasia
Mon 4/22: THEME: Technology and the Cultural Construction of “Beauty”
Reading:
Knafo, Danielle. "Castration and Medusa: Orlan's Art on the Cutting Edge." Studies in Gender and Sexuality.10 (2009): 142-58.
Wed 4/24:
Lab: Open lab time
Mon 4/29:
Catch up day!!!
Wed 5/1:
Lab:
Open Lab
Mon 5/6:
Lab:
LAST LAB DAY! You will have all of class time and an additional hour (until 3:30) to work on your film. BY THE TIME YOU LEAVE CLASS TODAY YOUR FILM SHOULD BE LOADED ONTO OUR SERVER AND READY TO PLAY ON 5/8!!!!!
Wed 5/8:
We will begin class today by watching assigned films and filling out our Film Fest Review Sheet!
TECHNOCULTURE FILM FEST WOOT WOOT WOOT!!!
Attendance is mandatory!
Mon 5/13:
TECHNOCULTURE FILM FEST WOOT WOOT WOOT!!!
Attendance is mandatory!
Wed 5/15:
TECHNOCULTURE FILM FEST WOOT WOOT WOOT!!!
Attendance is mandatory!
** Final Exam time: May 20, 2:30-4:20
TECHNOCULTURE FILM FEST WOOT WOOT WOOT!!!
FINAL PAPERS DUE IN CLASS TODAY!
Attendance is mandatory and unexcused absence will result in lowering your participation grade by one grade level--yikes!

2007 FCC Oversight Hearing -- John Kerry
http://distance-ed.fullerton.edu/bbpresentations/Karyl_Ketchum/intersexion/player.html
Course Social Media Links:
WMST 320 Spring 2012 Film Fest Wallwisher board is HERE!!!
Links to Cool Tech Stuff!!
Article about The AIDS Quilt Touch Project
Link to CSUF student pricing for Adobe Creative Suite!
Keepvid.com -- download online vids through this free service!
Exercise/Tutorial Links:
Photoshop Retouching Tutorial Page
Windows Movie Maker Instructional Sheet
Creating open captions in Camtasia
Links on Filmmaking and Theory:
The Film Techniques of Hitchcock--a great treatise on technique in film-making!
Lo-fi Lounge Re/Mixed Media Festival
Some additional online editing tools and programs
Links to Previous Course Assignments:
Spring 2013 Photoshop Image Galleries!
Ashley Contreras's Page on "Images of War"
Anonymous Student Myspace "Technology Not 4 Me"
Raymond Fernandez's Page on "Mail Order Males"
Daniel's site on gaming and violence
Visual Theory Links:
Visual Theory: Understanding "Framing"
Visual Theory: Appropriation and the relationship between images and text
Visual Theory: Roland Barthes "Commutation Test" and the Johnny Deere Doll
Visual Theory and HTML
The Postmodern Psychodynamics of Visibility [deconstructing images with rollovers]
The PINK Project [theorizing images through Hypertext and "hotspots" or image mapping]
Does Language Influence Vision? [creating a game for your viewer]
Roland Barthes conception of the sign [interactive diagram]
"Marina's Gift" [mimicking the physical world]
Other Readings of Interest:
Goffman, Erving. Gender Advertisements. New York: Harper and Rowe, 1976.
Other Cool Stuff to Check Out:
PBS's Art 21: Art in the 21st Century
Wikileaks: militqary video over Baghdad
WIRED's coverage of the Iraqi military video leaked by Wikileaks
George Washington University's National Security Archive
Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History--Columbia University
CSUFullerton Women & Gender Studies and Queer Studies website
Free-of-charge website service that locates convicted sex offenders in a particular geographic area
Stanford University's Project Documenting the Proteus Effect
Stanford's Proteus Effect Research
Jeremy Bentham, Michel Foucault and the PANOPTICON
Nanotechnologies and anti-bacterial underwear???
Text of E.T.A. Hoffman's "The Sandman"
The aesthetic of Postmodernism
Benjamin Button with FaceGen-like technology
VIsibleworld.net a place for social justice and non-profit organizations to put their web sites
Student Podcasts
The Electronic Frontier Foundation [Advocates for Internet Freedom and net neutrality]
The Patriot Act: How it Affects You
Jon Ippolito "Hacking Copyright for Fun and Profit"
"The Couple in the Cage" by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez -Peña to see
stills of this performance piece select "video" on the main page
Electronic Writing Research Ensemble
Meet Lynn Hershman Leeson's Agent Ruby from her film "Teksnolust"
Artist Kara Walker's intrigueing cutouts on race and whiteness
Spring 2010 Final Project Web Design Gallery!!

Technlogies of Vision--"Film Making Techniques"
"If Chat Rooms Were Real"
"Photoshop Extreme"
Heather Hunt, Gender and Technoculture, Spring 2009