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university of california, santa cruz / department of film & digital media

introduction to digital media

f i l m  &  d i g i t a l   m e d i a   2 0 c

 

 

announcements:
   

professor: 

warren sack <wsack@ucsc.edu>
office: porter college / room d215
hours: thursdays: noon-1:30pm and by appointment

lecture: 

oakes college  / room 105
tuesdays & thursdays: 2:00pm - 3:45pm

   

ta:

alana perlin <aperlin@ucsc.edu>

office: porter college / room d214
hours: tba

sections: 

communications building / room 11
wednesdays: 9:00am - 10:00am
wednesdays: 10:15am - 11:15am

   

ta: 

abram stern <aphid@ucsc.edu>

aim: aleatorybug

office: porter college / room d125
hours: tba

sections: 

communications building / room 11
thursdays: 5:15pm - 6:15pm
thursdays: 6:30pm - 7:30pm

   

ta:

nichole smith <nicisixx@yahoo.com>

office: porter college / room d213
hours: tba

sections: 

communications building / room 11
fridays: 9:00am - 10:00am
fridays: 10:15am - 11:15am

   
description: This course provides an introduction to critical studies of digital media.   Students will learn how to analyze the philosophical, political, and cultural forces and foundations that constitute, contextualize and are catalyzed by the technologies and techniques of digital media. We will read a number of historically significant texts from the last sixty years that helped define digital media. Lectures, sections, and demos will complement the readings by introducing students to a number of methodologies useful for the study and presentation of digital media. Throughout the term students will work on projects to explore, analyze and participate in some part of the Internet. By the end of the quarter students will be both critical observers of and participants in digital media.