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MIT 3850F/G   Distance 'New Media' Theories and Production

Course Description
New Media’ is a contested term; what’s new about new media? This course will critically examine the theories that drive this term and look at the consequences the changes it signals (e.g. the notional Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 or the 3D web) have for production practices (collaboration, social networking,wikis, flickr, folksonomies, etc,). Using Virtual Worlds as our platform with shared media applications, we will examine how and through what assumptions do media producers create unique or individualized information that could at the same time be delivered or displayed to or shared with large numbers of people?; or how all kinds of players are involved (e.g. publishers, broadcasters, consumers) with what might be equal or near equal control of code and content?

Relationship to the Goal and Objectives of the MIT Program:
Through online notes and presentations, critically reflexive practices with various new media, and
personal research, students who take this course will:
1. gain an understanding of the theoretical, technical, cultural, and historical contexts of new
media practices (from Objective 1);
2. gain an understanding of the material properties and capabilities of contemporary technological
convergences (from Objective 4);
3. gain an understanding of the processes involved in creating new media technologies (from
Objective 5);
4. gain critical insight into the cultural role and importance of various personal and broadcast
information/communication technologies (from Objective 4 and Objective 6).

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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