cellphone applications
digital product design
video
scenario planning
interactive pastimes
participatory media
physical computing
writing
web
graphic thoughts

   

Keywords: blogs, podcasts, vlogs, bitTorrents, RSS feeds, SMIL, cellphones, citizen reporters, interactive television, free speech

Instructor: Shawn Van Every

References: Jeff Jarvis, 'We, The Media' by Dan Gillmor, OhMyNews, EPIC 2014 (The Museum of Media History)...

Date: Spring 2005 on.

 

 

 

PARTICIPATORY MEDIA

 

"Traditional broadcast media (television and radio) are in a time of transition. Broadcast is being pushed in new directions by the increasing ease of producing compelling material, and by the interactive and social nature of the internet. Blogs and other internet based social networks have given rise to an audience that is eager to engage with and participate in the creation of media. This appetite is quickly moving into the realm of television and radio with new avenues for distribution and new means for audience interaction offering serious challenges to traditional broadcast. The goal of this course is to introduce students to new technologies and methods for creating participatory media and making it available".

 

 

 

  

BlogStarTheater

A collaborative project that aimed at revealing the real nature of the blog scene and combine it with the raising trend in video blogging, the popularity of home videos and the latest success of parodies of music videos.

The best known blogs offer independent reporting and alternative news, but blogging software is mostly used to keep online diaries, which has made public texts and materials that were kept zealously private before.

Presented to the Contagious Media Showdown organized by Eyebeam in May 2005.
   

Thoughts about the Participatory Media scene.

Thoughts about how the uprising of participatory media tools is affecting the way that news are produced and consumed.

 


 

On The Spot

In the cellphone applications section.

An SMS based application that allows user to report events happening in the street and also get events back that happened at a particular place.

 

  
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