DCD
Module 1
New Media
It's interactive.
Nesting
The way things are written or described. The way things are written are different in new media compared to how they used to be in old media.
The Medium is the Message
Marshall McLuhan
Extension
WHAT
“when an individual or society makes or uses something in a way that extends the range of the human body and mind in a fashion that is new”
Module 2
Mastering Memory
Alan Lightman
People use phones over face to face interaction.
technology is taking over
We are dependent on computers.
App project
Google knowing
System 1
Automatic filtering of information in our receptive state occurs
Google will only benefit you if you know the real news from the fake news.
Module 3
Determinism
Hard Determinism
certain communication device can be two options, these two options being a sufficient condition or a necessary condition meaning it needs more precautions
Soft Determinism
communication technologies are positive things and that they only lead to opportunity and don't need to be taken up by society
Social Determinism
Technological Determinism
technologies are completely determined by political and social factors
belief that technology is the main cause that develops social structure in society.
"Notes on The Gaze"
The gaze is the way that a viewer looks at a person in a visual medium or text
"Her" film analysis
Formalist, Realist, or Contexualist analysis
Module 4
The Social Debate
Larry Rosen
Technology is making people less sociable and using less face to face interaction.
Keith Hampton
Technology is enhancing peoples relationships with one another.
The Internet Debate
Clay Shirky
Technology will take over the world and people choose the internet over books.
Nicholas Carr
The internet makes us dumber and books are better.
William Poundstone
Google effect
when people know they can just retrieve facts, like from the internet, they are much less likely to actually be remembered
Bored and Brilliant
Creativity comes from daydreaming so cell phones are affecting this.
Module 5
The Social Network
Video Games and Violence
Video games make kids more violent.
Augmented Reality
Meta 2- holograms
Virtual reality and goggles/glasses that extend iphones
Second life
People create second lives that they live through the web.
Module 6
The Digital Degree
Online classes are expanding and becoming an cheaper alternative for in class university classes
Higher education is not a mixtape
Online classes wont take over because students don't get the full university experience they look for.