Final Project: HTML wireframe of your project. Delivered in class via thumbdrive or emailed before. We will click through your project in an informal presentation in class June 29th. (10% of final project grade)
Project Analysis: blog post long form
Due June 29th (250 – 350 words; submit via email by midnight; subject =”Project Analysis”) – (10% of final project grade)
Analyse your project based on the 10 criteria and any of the relevant readings. This is not a formal paper, more conversational like the blog posts. DO cast a critical eye towards your project and discuss which aspects of New Media it leverages in helping your user.
**** blog post 4 **** Two articles. What do you think and how do they relate?
Due June 25th (150 – 250 words; submit via email by midnight; subject =”blog post 4″)
Do you agree or disagree with the opinion article, “Free Speech for Computers?” Why? Relate this article to the one about the Facebook lawsuit settlement.
Free Speech for Computers?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/opinion/free-speech-for-computers.html?hp
To Settle Lawsuit, Facebook Alters Policy for Its Like Button
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/technology/to-settle-suit-facebook-alters-policies-for-like-button.html?_r=1&hpw
**** blog post 3 **** Winograd and Flores
Due June 20th (150 – 250 words; submit via email by midnight; subject =”blog post 3″)
Discuss your response to this article in terms of your New Media Project. How does the ontological approach work in your domain?
**** blog post 2 ****Scott McCloud reading response
Due June 11th (150 – 250 words; submit via email by midnight; subject =”blog post 2″)
Pick one:
1) In the Scott McCloud reading the representation of time is discussed. How are these issues relevant to New Media, especially with respect to the panel? You might want to use a new media entity as an example.
2) Free form! Use your imagination to show a comprehension of the issues raised in the reading as they relate to New Media. Get Creative!!!
****Required text****
A reader (collection of articles) is available at Copy Central on Bancroft under the name INFO 146 Foundations of New Media. Many of your readings will come from the reader if not from a link in the schedule.
**** blog post 1 ****
Due May 25th (150 – 250 words posted as a response to the blog post “blog post 1”)
Pick a New Media entity with which you have had experience using (website, game, app, etc). Describe your personal experience with it. Why is that experience a New Media experience? What old media does it relate to, if at all? (ie. YouTube might be like home movies, documentary film, or instructional video.) Get specific, have fun with it!
This assignment should take about 1 – 2.5 hours. This is part of the class participation portion of your grade, therefore, no pressure. Just think and write.
Remember, all work in this class MUST be your own. Plagiarism is against the rules, gets and F, and generally subverts your ability to learn.
****Short Paper****
Due June 6th (2 – 3 pages (or more), double spaced)
Draw on one or more of the readings (Heilbroner, Jenkins, Manovich, Williams ) to discuss a particular new media form or technological innovation. What insights do these author(s) make available that help us understand the development and emergence of your technology or tool. Conclude with a question that you would ask the author if they were in class.
**** blog post extra credit **** This will account for missed blogs posts in the past or missed classes or help in the final grade. Due June 29th (150 – 250 words; submit via email by midnight; subject =”blog post Extra Credit”)
Two options (you can do both if you want):
In either (or both) of the articles below explain how the main points of the article apply to the class. How does it fit in to our understanding of New Media?
Marshall McLuhan, excerpt from The Gutenberg Galaxy.
Alan Turing, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” (49-64) http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html