Readings from other first - year CMS classes on theory complement workshop activities. In addition, resource pages for 21W.785, 21W.772, and 21W.780 (all available on OCW) will provide valuable examples and other source material as needed.
Block, Friedrich W., Christiane Heibach, and Karen Wenz, eds. p0es1s: The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. ISBN: 9783775713450.
Bolter, Jay, and Richard Grusin. Remediation: Understanding New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780262522793.
Kac, Eduardo, ed. New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies. Providence, RI: Visible Language, 1996.
Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001, 2002. ISBN: 9780262133746.
Mathews, Harry, and Alastair Brotchie, eds. Oulipo Compendium. London, UK: Atlas Press, 1998. ISBN: 1900565188.
Wardrip-Fruin, Noah, and Nick Montfort, eds. The New Media Reader. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780262232272.