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Week 1: Introduction
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Required and Recommended
Readings
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Overview of the scope and purpose
of the course. Evaluation methods, including assignments and participation,
will be discussed..
What is "new" about
"new media"?
What are the characteristics, both
technical and social, of new media?
How does new media transform and
"remediate" earlier media practices?
This class will end with an
introduction to transliteracy which will help guide our thinking until we
delve further into transliteracy in week 9.
Key Questions & Ideas:
Some key questions to consider
during the first class:
★What is "new media
studies" and its relationship to the humanities and social sciences ?
★New Media Studies is a
transdisciplinary field of scholarly inquiry, what does this mean?
★How do different disciplines
approach the study of media?
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n Blogger.com
n “What is New Media”, Lev Manovich (https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mcgraw-hill.co.uk%2Fopenup%2Fchapters%2F0335217109.pdf)
n “Transliterate spaces - Sue Thomas - 3Ts 2013: Transliteracy
from Cradle to Career,” Sue Thomas ) http://www.slideshare.net/suethomas/transliterate-spaces-sue-thomas-3ts-2013-transliteracy-from-cradle-to-career
n Starlee Kine, “The Creative Process: Episode 12,” http://www.lstudio.com/starlee-arthur-review/the-creative-process.html
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