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NYU Media Convergence Course
A Digital Media Overview
\ Wednesday, September 20, 2000 class

jpowers50x68.jpg (3624 bytes)In the first session of Entertainment and the World Wide Web, we'll describe the course, get acquainted with each student's interest areas and perspectives on media technologies, and learn about the broad outlines of the digital media universe.

A Digital Media Overview

  1. Introductions
  2. Course Overview
    Sep 20: A Digital Media Overview
    Sep 27: Digital Photography
    Guest speaker: Jim Cannata on Digital Photography

    Oct 4: The Technical Infrastructure of the Internet
    Oct 11: World Wide Web Entertainment Trends
    Oct 18: MP3 and the Internet Music Revolution
    Oct 25: Special class at Fall INTERNET WORLD
    Nov 1: Webcasting and Streaming Media
    Nov 8: Television Online
    Nov 15: Hollywood and the Web
    Nov 22: Radio in Cyberspace
    Nov 29: Copyrights, Royalties and Digital Intellectual Property
    Dec 6: Resources & Networking, Course Summary
  3. Assignments:
    -- Three projects
    -- Classroom interaction
  4. Suggested magazines
  5. Suggested books:
    -- Being Digital,  Negroponte,  0-679-76290-6
    -- What Will Be, Dertouzos, 0-06-251479-2
    -- Interface Culture. Johnson, 0-06-251482-2
    -- The Invisible Computer, Norman, 0-262-14065-9
  6. The Media Technology Landscape
    -- Digitization and its discontents
    -- Trends in computing

Next week: Digital Photography


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