This_Digital_World_

1. Any Photoshop/Collage questions or issues?

2.Discussion of Terms:
user-generated content
long tail
network as platform
folksonomy
syndication
mass collaboration
computer supported collaboration
social-software
mashups

3.Discussion/questions about "Interacting with an interface
or what happens when you switch on LG Chocolate."

1. what does manovich mean by the "aesthetisation of information tools and interaction"
2. what are aesthetics?
3. what is interaction as theater?
4. Experience Design: What happens when you turn on an LG Chocolate?
   
   
   

4. FRONTLINE: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier

Within a single generation, digital media and the World Wide Web have transformed virtually every aspect of modern culture, from the way we learn and work to the ways in which we socialize and even conduct war. But is the technology moving faster than we can adapt to it? And is our 24/7 wired world causing us to lose as much as we've gained?

In Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier, FRONTLINE presents an in-depth exploration of what it means to be human in a 21st-century digital world. Continuing a line of investigation she began with the 2008 FRONTLINE report Growing Up Online, award-winning producer Rachel Dretzin embarks on a journey to understand the implications of living in a world consumed by technology and the impact that this constant connectivity may have on future generations. "I'm amazed at the things my kids are able to do online, but I'm also a little bit panicked when I realize that no one seems to know where all this technology is taking us, or its long-term effects," says Dretzin.

Joining Dretzin on this journey is commentator Douglas Rushkoff, a leading thinker and writer on the digital revolution -- and one-time evangelist for technology's positive impact. "In the early days of the Internet, it was easy for me to reassure people about what it would mean to bring digital technology into their lives," says Rushkoff, who has authored 10 books on media, technology and culture. "Now I want to know whether or not we are tinkering with something more essential than we realize."

WATCH: Digital Nation Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 (to be continued wed 1oth)

and if there is time:

Friending Boo Radley

English teacher Jenny Johns uses social networking tools to teach classic literature, such as To Kill a Mockingbird.

5. Due Wed. 10th Blog Posting with your analysis of "Digital Nation" so far...remember, this may change! 2-3 paragraphs (video/images optional)

6. Pass out "Social Media and Web 2.0" Have read by Monday Feb. 14th

save for web 2.0

1. Pass out
Interacting with an interface
or what happens when you switch on LG Chocolate.
by Manovich 2007
(read for monday FEB. 7th)

2. questions and terms review web 2.0: in-class: user-generated content, long tail, network as platform, folksonomy, syndication, and mass collaboration, computer supported collaboration, hosted services, web applications, social-software, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups, more???

3. PHOTOSHOP WORKSHOP:

1. distinguish between .psd and other bitmap files
2. bitmap vs. vector
3. vector text tool in photohop
4. layering
5. selection methods (magic wand, lasso, marquee, select by color)
6. how to create a transparent background --knocking out a background. example photo
7. SAVE AND OPTIMIZE FOR THE WEB IN PHOTOSHOP
   

DUE MONDAY 7TH
BLOG ENTRY WITH YOUR FINAL BEST QUALITY MCLUHAN MEDIUM IS MESSAGE COLLAGE. EXPORTED OUT OF PHOTOSHOP WITH THE "SAVE FOR WEB OPTION"

HAVE Interacting with an interface
or what happens when you switch on LG Chocolate. READ. AND READY TO DISCUSS.

AND

CREATE A BLOG POSTING BRIEFLY DEFINING/SUMMARIZING THE FOLLOWING TRAITS OR QUALITIES OF THESE WEB 2.0 TERMS:
user-generated content, long tail, network as platform, folksonomy, syndication, and mass collaboration, computer supported collaboration, hosted services, web applications, social-software, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups

Conceptual Collage

1. Discussion of Lev Manovich- "The Practice of Media in Everyday Life"

discussion questions:
What does the shift from media to social media mean for the way media functions?
What does this shift mean for the terms we use to discuss and talk about media?

Look at the shift from publishing medium to communication medium.
what new communication situations arise from web 2.0 practices?


2. Photoshop Collage Assignment
watch tutorial in class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTyi3Qz5QwA
Questions about tutorial?
General Photoshop Questions?
Questions about Collage Assignment?

3. In class "save for web/optimize" in Photoshop CS4 Workshop

4. In-Class Lab to work on Photoshop Medium is the Message Collages

DUE WED. JAN 3rd:
1. BRING IN YOUR COMPLETED COLLAGE PHOHOTOSHOP DOCUMENT (.PSD ) ON YOUR FLASH DRIVE AND HAVE A SMALLER .JPG VERSION POSTED TO YOUR BLOG AS A NEW BLOG ENTRY BEFORE CLASS Wed. the 3rd

2. STUDY THESE WEB 2.0 / SOCIAL MEDIA terms to discuss in-class: user-generated content, long tail, network as platform, folksonomy, syndication, and mass collaboration

The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life

"..The "message" of any medium or technology is the change of scale or pace or pattern that it introduces into human affairs." -McLuhan, 1964"

DEFINING MEDIUM:
McLuhan uses interchangeably the words medium, media and technology. For McLuhan a medium is "any extension of ourselves", or more broadly, "any new technology".In addition to forms such as newspapers, television and radio, McLuhan includes the light bulb, cars, speech and language in his definition of "media": all of these, as technologies, mediate our communication; their forms or structures affect how we perceive and understand the world around us.

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1. Discuss/Define Medium is the Message..
Look at a few examples from your blog entries

2. ADD ANSWERS TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS TO YOUR BLOG ENTRIES IN CLASS:

In what ways do your examples new forms of media change the perceptions of societies? What are the personal and social conquences resulting from the introduction of your examples

2. Photoshop selection techniques. Different selection tools, feather, grow, CUT/PASTE

3. Define web 2.0

ASSIGNMENTS DUE MONDAY:
1. Create a visual composite/collage in photoshop (72ppi) that transitions one of your chosen mediums through "content" and "message".
Post this piece on your blog with a short write-up explaining your work
due monday 1ST - (on monday have at least your .psd file created and your images located--i will explain in class)

~AND~

2. READ The practice of Everyday (Media) Life, 2008 BY LEV MANOVICH, BE READY TO DISCUSS. ON MONDAY FEB. 1ST

assignment one / medium/message

TODAY: INTRO TO CS4 / PHOTOSHOP
BASICS OF PIXEL GRAPHICS
TAKE NOTES!!

1. Passout McLuhan packet, be ready to discuss next Thur.
"Understanding Media: Extensions of Man (1964)" -- "Medium is the Message" read by next class

2. Discussion of Interactivity (In New Media)
Examples of Lev Manovich Texts

3. Post in 3 examples of current "mediums", innovations/inventions/breakthroughs in communication technology, along with visual examples of these mediums
Post these examples as a single blog entry by next class.

Day 1

Day 1 Wed Jan 19th, 2010

Set up a Blog on Blog in Class on http://blogspot.com . The URL of your blog can be of your own choosing , but the TITLE must be your FIRST AND LAST NAME. Add the “blog list” gadget to your blog under customize and then add the class blog http://medialit113sp2010.blogspot.com/ to your list. We will cover this in class today.

In order to get credit for your work in this class your blog must be added to this blog hub on the "blog list" NOT AS A FOLLOWER.
IF YOU DON'T SEE YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME UNDER "STUDENT BLOGS" THEN YOU WILL NOT GET CREDIT FOR YOUR WORK.

for next time mandatory:
get textbook practices of looking
USB flash Drive in computer store / bookstore

optional books:
Understanding Media
Cult of the Amateur