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Course Number(s): CMS.870, 21L.707, SP.439
Term:
Spring 2000 Credit: 3-3-6
When: Lecture: MW3:30-5 Lab: W EVE (7-10 PM)
Where: 14E-310

Professor Justine Cassell
justine@media.mit.edu

Professor Henry Jenkins
henry3@mit.edu

 

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Bruckman, Amy (1998) "Community Support for Constructionalist Learning" in CSCL 7:47-86.

Bruner, Jerome and Lucariello, Joan. (1989) "Monologue as Narrative Recreation of the World" in Katherine Nelson (ed.) Narratives from the Crib, pp. 73 - 97. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Cantor, Joanne (1998) "'But it's only Make-Believe': Fantasy, Fiction and Fear" in Mommy, I'm Scared : How TV and Movies Frighten Children and What We Can Do to Protect Them.

Cassell, Justine (1993). "Calling it the Way You See It: French Children's Labels and Schemas for Gender Information". Paper presented at SRCD.

Cassell, Justine (1998). "Storytelling as a Nexus of Change in the Relationship between Gender and Technology: A Feminist Approach to Software Design" in From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 298 - 326. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Cassell, Justine and Jenkins, Henry (1998). "Chess for Girls? Feminism and Computer Games" in Cassell & Jenkins (eds.) in From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 2 - 46. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Cassell, Justine and Ryokai, Kimiko. (forthcoming) "Making Space for Voice" in Personal Technologies.

Collodi, Carlo (1996). The Adventures of Pinnochio. Tor Books, New York, NY.

Cytron, Sara w/ Malinowitz, Harriet (1999). "Butch in a Tutu" in Matthew Rottneck (ed.) Sissies and Tomboys : Gender Nonconformity and Homosexual Childhood. New York University Press, New York, NY.

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Del Vecchio, Gene (1997) "Touch the Girl's Psyche" in Creating Ever-Cool: A Marketer's Guide to a Kid's Heart. Pelican Publishing Company, Gretna, LA.

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Formanek-Brunell, Miriam (1998). "The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America" in Henry Jenkins (ed.) The Children's Culture Reader, pp. 363-381. New York University Press, New York, NY.

Freud, Sigmund (1949/2000). Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. Basic Books, New York, NY.

Garber, Marjorie (1997). "Fear of Flying or Why is Peter Pan a Woman?" in Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. Routledge Press, New York, NY.

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Glos, Jennifer and Goldin, Shari (1998). "An Interview with Brenda Laurel (Purple Moon) in Cassell & Jenkins (eds.) in From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 118 - 135. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Glos, Jennifer and Goldin, Shari (1998). "An Interview with Nancie S. Martin (Mattel) in Cassell & Jenkins (eds.) in From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 136 - 151. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

Harkness, Sarah and Super, Charles M. (1996). "Introduction" in Harkness & Super (eds.) Parents' Cultural Belief Systems, pp. 1 - 26. The Guilford Press, New York, NY.

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James, Allison (1998). "Confections, Concoctions, and Conceptions" in Henry Jenkins (ed.) The Children's Culture Reader, pp. 394 - 405. New York University Press, New York, NY.

Jenkins, Henry (1998). "Childhood Innocence and Other Modern Myths" in Henry Jenkins (ed.) The Children's Culture Reader, pp. 1 - 40. New York University Press, New York, NY.

Jenkins, Henry (1998). "The Sensuous Child: Benjamin Spock and the Sexual Revolution" in Henry Jenkins (ed.) The Children's Culture Reader, pp. 209 - 230. New York University Press, New York, NY.

Jenkins, Henry (Forthcoming) "No Matter How Small: The Democratic Imagination of Dr. Seuss" in Jenkins, McPherson & Shattuc (eds.) Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture.

Jenkins, Henry (1998). "Voices from the Combat Zone: Game Grrlz Talk Back" in From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games, pp. 328 - 349. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

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