Now that you’ve all voted.
Now that we’ve concluded our third travelogue.
Now we can start the fourth, last and richer travelogue.
You already know the drill, you choose an environment and start exploring, trying to surprise yourselves and to come up with new perspectives and understanding of the issues and debates within the new media discourse.
What do I mean by richer? Along the lines of our discussion of interface and meaning, we are going to extend our weapons of choice. I mean we are going to use more than text for our posts:
- Videos
- Audio (podcasts)
- Slideshows
- Comic strips
- Software
- Annotated Maps
- ShiftSpace shifts
- Your medium of choice here
The post itself would use “rich” media, the comments are textual.
Edit: Reminder/Clarification: I want YOU to produce the rich-media you post.
For next week:
- Choose a subject.
If you want our feedback on your ideas, post them by Saturday, so you can still create the content in time.
- Post your rich post.
- refer to the how-to page to learn more about how to post different stuff. If you have questions, search the web, if the web has answers, share them with us.
- If you still do not know how to post your thing, email me, I am very open to adding plug-ins to our WordPress. If you want me to do that, email me after researching the plugins.
- I am open to collaborations (as always in the price of higher expectations).
- Post 4+ comments to your fellow students posts. Try to give constructive feedback on both content and use of media.
Recommended Reading:
Required Reading / Viewing:
- Bruce Sterling’s presentation at Innovationsforum Interaktionsdesign
[There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.]
- The City As A Platform – the italicized introduction and part two only (I § highlighted its starting point: “This somewhat banal sketch of an average high street is very deliberately based on the here and now; “)
- Highlight and annotate as you wish.
Jess & Jessica:
- Read the article and watch the presentation.
- Highlight and annotate the article to help its accessibility for the rest of you (one § highlights shift can include more than a single highlight range).
- Summarize it for us in a nicely accessible post to be published by Sunday 4pm, ideally running some threads between them.
- Be prepared to present the article and lead the discussion in class.
- Post to del.icio.us some links that expand the discussion either about the text or about key themes in it.
Enjoy
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