Welcome to the Austin College New Media Class Wiki
Here you will find the collected knowledge about New Media from the Spring 2007 Media Studies course on New Media. This website will evolve as we begin to traverse the topography of our contemporary mediated world. Below will soon develop several links to topics, concepts, and specific artifacts related to these new media, especially media that are networked, digital, and mobile.
What's New?
As the site grows, we will need a place to present major additions, like new pages. Let that place be this place.
Added 6 April 2007: A new page for all your thesis writing on the
course readings. Each reading has a "questions" link underneath it for questions and answers for each one. I moved most of the questions on Wolf to the "Questions about Wolf" page, but each of you should take a few minutes to copy and paste your other earlier questions on the 27 and 29 March readings onto their "Questions about..." pages.
Added 30 March 2007: Seriously... put some games up on that Paidia vs. Ludus page... dispute me... I dare you - Daniel
Added 29 March 2007: [Summary of our discussion about the assignments has been moved to the page entitled "the Wiki and Questions Debate," which is also now linked from the Connections page.
Added 26 March 2007: On the
Connections page, a link to the new space for posting
questions (and responding to them) to the wiki.
Added 18 March 2007: The
Paidia-Ludus Face-Off, a place to begin categorizing games we've played by their place along the great P to L continuum. If you disagree, move it to the "Contested box" and provide an explanation of why.
How have networked technologies changed the ways we understand concepts like "community," "communication," and "relationship"? Also, your Site Analyses are here.
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| This is a section for starting new pages about relationships between networked, digital, and mobile concepts we have discussed in class. This section explores what happens when an artifact, practice, or technology does not fall easily into one of our pre-fab categories. Also, the Questions page is here.
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How has the introduction of miniaturization and wireless standards of various kinds encouraged us to carry our communication tools with us? What has this done to shape the pace and scope of our interactions with one another?
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| This is a place to catalogue useful information and analysis of specific new media artifacts. For example, we'll probably see pages here on Youtube or Apple; Lonelygirl15 or The Star Wars Kid; IM or spam. This section will be the most direct reflection of the interests of the class. You can find the Paidia-Ludus Face-Off here.
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