Author: Jason W. Ellis

Last night, I recorded this final exam review for my Introduction to Language and Technology ENG1710 students. These are the slides that I’m using in the background. The following are the readings that my students and I discussed over the past 14 weeks that comprise the exam review:

1. Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky”
2. Ted Chiang, “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
3. Victoria Fromkin, “What is Language?” from An Introduction to Language
4. Stephen Jay Klein, “What is Technology?”
5. Salikoko S. Mufwene, “Language as Technology: Some Questions That Evolutionary Linguistics Should Address”
6. Walter J. Ong, “Writing is a Technology That Restructures Thought,” in The Written Word: Literacy in Transition,
7. Bruce Mazlish, “The Fourth Discontinuity”
8. Jacques Derrida, “Linguistics and Grammatology,” translated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
9. Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto”
10. N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman, Chapter 1: “Toward Embodied Virtuality”
11. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, Chapter 1: “The Medium is the Message”
12. Friedrich Kittler, “Gramophone Film Typewriter”
13. J. David Bolter and Richard A. Grusin, “Remediation”
14. Lisa Gitelman, Always Already New, “Introduction”
15. Fred Turner, “Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy: The WELL and the Origins of Virtual Community”
16. Lev Manovich, Language of New Media, Chapter 1: What is New Media?”
17. Alexander Galloway, “What is New Media? Ten Years After The Language of New Media”
18. Laurie McNeill and John David Zuern, “Online Lives 2.0: Introduction”
19. Anil Dash, “The Lost Infrastructure of Social Media”
20. David Nofre, Mark Priestley, and Gerald Alberts, “When Technology Became Language: The Origins of the Linguistic Conception of Computer Programming, 1950-1960”
21. Marie Hicks, Introduction to Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
22. Jacques Derrida, “Signature Event Context”
23. William Hart-Davidson, “On Writing, Technical Communication and Information Technology: The Core Competencies of Technical Communication”
24. Dan Milmo, Seán Clarke, and Garry Blight, “How AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT or Bard Work—Visual Explainer”
25. Alan F. Blackwell, “Are You Paying Attention?” from Moral Codes
26. Lorena O’Neil, “These Women Warned of AI’s Dangers and Risks Long Before ChatGPT”
27. Maria Christoforaki and Oya Beyan, “AI Ethics—A Bird’s Eye View”