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

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