Week+03

**DUE: ** In preparation for today's class, please post your thoughts on the readings (Auster; Karasik, Mazzuchelli & Auster; and McCloud) in the Comments for Week 3 by Friday 9/10. Over the weekend, read your classmates' posts, and respond. We will use these posts to launch our class discussion today. ** Please bring all 3 texts to class! **     ** QUESTIONS: **   What kind of medium is a book? What kind of medium is a comic or graphic novel? How does the medium affect our relationship to the content? **
 * Week 3 (9/13) **  ** What is a Medium? **

READ (and bring to class): ** **Auster, P. (2006). City of glass. In //The New York trilogy: City of glass, Ghosts, The locked room.//  Penguin classics deluxe edition. New York: Penguin Books. ** **EXPLORE: **     Flash-based webcomics using internet tools as a medium:  The Truth About Elephants  Lifecode  More comics by the same author can be viewed at __demian5.com__. Note that some of the other comics on this site contain adult material that is NSFW (not safe for work).  Scott McCloud's website In the comments for Week 4, reflect on whether and how television can be an educational medium or if it's as bad as Postman thinks it is. Please post by Friday, 9/17 and review your classmates' posts on the blogs page of the Ning over the weekend. These posts will launch our discussion on Monday.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt 0px 0pt 40pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Karasik, P., Mazzucchelli, D., & Auster, P. (2004). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//City of glass// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (graphic novel). New York: Picador. **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: block; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0pt 0px 0pt 40pt;"> <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">McCloud, S. (2005). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">//Understanding comics: The invisible art// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. New York: HarperPerennial. **
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