Advanced Media Issues New Media, Cultural and Social Change
Welcome to ARTS3091 for 2012
Welcome! We’ve tweaked the course since 2012 so we hope you’ll find lots of ways into interesting material about new media, cultural and social change. You should make good use of this site. There is a full course guide with live links. Use this for linking out to the online readings/preparation. There is also a [...]
Future of Education and Augmented Reality
This is a bit slow, though nicely produced, but begins to give you a good idea about how augmented reality might (in fact already is) work (ing). There’s a second video below, via Chris Grayson’s site, on the Microsoft Project Natal. Most of you will be familiar with this but note the accuracy of the [...]
The Guardian on Open Journalism—Three Little Pigs
The Guardian newspaper in the UK is not only a world-leading newspaper, and not only a leading newspaper in the adaptation to digital and networked media—it also seems to want to educate everyone into how digital or “open journalism” works. They’ve even started a kind of education campaign. This is very interesting and very informative [...]
Drone Journalism
Drones aren’t just used in warfare or increasingly civilian surveillance etc. They’re now coming into journalism.
Network—what happens to the information we feed into the network?
A great documentary about metadata … and you.
Bear71—great interactive documentary
Bear71 is a really interesting and very well made interactive documentary. Bears and other animals, surveillance cams, Banff, ecology, combination of video, storytelling, interaction. Well worth 20 minutes of your time!
Media Ecologies (new approaches): Sy Taffel
Great lecture by Sy Taffel on new approaches to media ecologies, which are a central concern of this course. More notes here. Media Ecologies on Prezi
Connected
Like the Adam Curtis trailer, this trailer for the new documentary film by Tiffany Shlain, Connected, indicates something of a shift in thinking about media, networks, and their connection to the rest of life.
All watched over by machines of loving grace
Master documentary maker Adam Curtis’ trailer for his new documentary series on computing and culture.
Massumi on ‘the half-life of disaster’
A great essay in The Guardian by Brian Massumi on ‘media-driven nerves’, affect, media cycles, politics, disaster, ecology. A perfect read for week eight for us. Highly recommended!
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