COURSE SCHEDULE:
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Week 1: Introduction: What’s ‘new’ about Digital Media?
Week 2: Digitalization, Convergence and Politics
PART I: TECHNOLOGIES
Week 3: TV: Cable, Satellite and Digital Technologies
Week 4: Cinema and Music: Digital Film, Sampling and Special Effects
Week 5: The Internet and the World Wide Web
Week 6: Just Gaming: Video Games and the Transformations of Narrative
PART II: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES
Week 7: The Politics Of New Media
Week 8: The Process Of Remediation
Week 9&10: Interactive Audiences
Week 11: Privacy, Surveillance and the Panoptic Sort
PART III: TEXTS
Week 12: Copyright, Peer-To-Peer & Creativity
Week 13: The Impact of Digital Technologies on Aesthetics
Week 14: The Aesthetics Of The Interface
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nb. There is not textbook for the class. All reading materials will be distributed through the class blog and will be available in digital format online. Readings include essays by Manuel Castells, P. David Marshall, Henry Jenkins, McKenzie Wark, Guy Debord, Larry Lessig, Bolter & Grusin among others.