Weekly Schedule
Class 1 – Introduction: What is Digital Media?
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Digital Media: What is it and where is it going?
What forms of “Old Media” did it replace?
A guided tour of the Internet and mobile media
Class 2: The Effects of Media Culture
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
How has media effected us? Social effects of media consumption
2. How Facebook Is Changing the Way Its Users Consume Journalism, New York Times, Ravi Somaiya, Oct. 26, 2014
Class 3: The Loss of Books, Newspapers & Magazines
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
How is print media losing ground to digital media in both content and delivery systems?
Readings:
- “Libraries ‘have had their day‘, says Horrible Histories author”, Alison Flood, The Guardian,
- “The End of Books”, The New York Times, Robert Coover, 1992,
Class 4: Music and Streaming Services
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
How has the Music industry changed with digital media? What is the content delivery system like?
- Apple to Pay $3 Billion to Buy Beats, Brian Chen, New York Times, May 28, 2014.
- “Music streaming demands new wave of licensing rules“, , April 2015
3. “Apple Music may not steal you from Spotify, but it can still win the streaming battle”, The Verge,
Class 5: Film and Digital Television
Tuesday, September 27, 2016
How has digital distribution and production effects film and television culture? Are 3-D Effects Creating Two-Dimensional Films? How are movies failing?
Is TV all about apps? – Case Study Apple TV
- “The Future of TV Isn’t Apps. We Need All Our Channels in One Place”, Gary Myer, WIRED, June 2014,
- “The Future Of TV Is Here. Can Cable Survive?”, Greg Satell, Forbes, June 2015,
Class 6: Electronic Games and Entertainment – Where are they going?
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
The move from console gaming to handheld gaming. How has this change effected us and why?
1. “A Theory of Fun for Game Design” – What Games Aren’t / Raph Koster
2. “16 trends that will define the future of video games”, Keith Stuart and Jordan Erica Webber,
3. “How a Videogame God Inspired a Twitter Doppelgänger — and Resurrected His Career”, WIRED, 2012.
Class 7: The Internet and Social Media
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 :
Is everyone online social? What does it mean to be online in 2016?
- “How the Technological Design of Facebook Homogenizes Identity and Limits Personal Representation“, Ben Grosser, Glimpsedome, 2015.
- Jeffrey Rosen: “The Web Means the End of Forgetting”, http://nyti.ms/atnScD
- How Social Media Has Changed Us: The Good and The Bad, B2C, Tommy Landry, Sept 2014.
Class 8: Marketing and Public Relations
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
How does marketing shift in the digital world?
1. “Why the Future of Digital Marketing Is Pure PR“, Gerald Heneghan, 2014
2. Duncan Watts and Jonah Peretti, Viral Marketing for the Real World, 2007:
https://hbr.org/2007/05/viral-marketing-for-the-real-world
3. Jeff Bullas, “5 Key Viral Marketing Tactics Proven to Work”,
Class 9: Open Source Media
Tuesday, November 8, 2016 :
How is open source media changing the ways people approach content?
Read:
1. Commons-based Peer Production and Virtue*, Yochai Benkler,
Helen Nissenbaum, http://bit.ly/3J9Dfp
2. The Political Economy of Open Source Software by Steven Weber
http://brie.berkeley.edu/publications/wp140.pdf
Class 10: The Influx of Drones
Tuesday, November 15th, 2016
What is the impact of drones on the future of communications and efficiency?
1. “Drone it yourself On The Decentering of ‘Drone Stories’, MaximilianJablonowski, Culture Machine Vol 16, 2015.
2. “ A World of Proliferated Drones”, Kelley Sayler, Center for a New American Security, Forward, Introduction, Hobbyist Drones, Conclusion:
3. “Johns Hopkins Team Hacks, Crashes Hobby Drones To Expose Security Flaws”, Janet Burns,
Link: http://bit.ly/dronesreading
Class 11: Artificial Intelligence
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Is artificial intelligence hurting or helping the future of computing?
1. “Should Your Driverless Car Hit a Pedestrian to Save Your Life?”, John Markoff, June 2016, Link: http://nyti.ms/28SgP9x
2. “The Coming Merging of Mind and Machine”, Ray Kurzweil, September 1999.
3. “Alternative Essences of Intelligence”, Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew Marjanovi ́c, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson, Pages 1-3.
Class 12: Final Presentations Day 1
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
FINAL Presentations – Day 1
Class 13: Final Presentations Day 2
Tuesday, December 6th, 2016
FINAL Presentations – Day 2
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