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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:

Possible questions for the final exam have now been posted here.

   

professor: 

warren sack <wsack@ucsc.edu>
office: porter college / room d215
hours: thursdays: 1:30pm-3:00pm and by appointment

lecture: 

oakes college  / room 105
tuesdays & thursdays: 10:00am - 11:45pm

   

ta:

elizabeth travelslight  <ewheaton@ucsc.edu>

office: porter college / room d125
hours: tuesdays: 1:30pm - 3:00pm; and, by appointment

sections: 

porter college  / room d240
fridays: 9:30am - 10:30am
fridays: 10:45am - 11:45am

   

ta: 

alex konrad  <konrad@ucsc.edu>

office: porter college / room d232
hours: fridays: 3:00pm-5:00pm

sections: 

porter college  / room d240
fridays: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
fridays: 1:15pm - 2:15pm

   

ta:

nikolaos hanselmann <nhanselm@ucsc.edu>

office: porter college / room d213  
hours: fridays: 12:00pm-1:30pm

sections: 

porter college  / room d240
fridays: 2:30pm - 3:30pm
fridays: 3:45pm - 4:45pm

   
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.