This is the question (really, the paragraphs…) I emailed Jeff the other day. I’ve been thinking about this concept of The Real that we’ve been talking about lately, as well as the concept of “an experience” from earlier. It seems that part of the definition of The Real that we’ve been dealing with implies that…
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Here’s an experience for you: sit back, close your eyes (but not really because then you won’t be able to read the post. Unless you ask that person sitting next to you to read the rest aloud for you), think of Italy-the delectable food, the canals of Venice, the Alps. Now you’re stretching your arms…
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The critique assignment is due by midnight, February 29 (thank leap year!). make your writing concise and don’t go too much over the word limit iterate on your ideas throughout the process from constructing your outline to written drafts use the writing tutorial services , number = 812-855-6738 Critical reflection on the course: We began…
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Here are the notes from today’s lectures: (Get better soon, Bob! You’re much better at this than I am! LOL) Announcement: One of the authors of the article we are to read for Thursday’s class is Phoebe Sengers, and she is: 1. coming to our class on Thursday , SO PLEASE DO YOUR READING FOR…
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Last week Jeff talked about an mp3 player being more “real” of an experience than a CD player because you have access to an entire library of songs, and thus can choose the song that is most appropriate to any given situation. But there’s a bit of a problem to this theory. There is an…
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All, I’ve posted notes from today’s lecture. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu All,
All,I’ve posted notes from today’s lecture. You can find the notes using either of the two links below: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants commented on how cool mix tapes were yet how rarely he creates playlists in iTunes. I started to wonder about the differences between old and new music media formats. In particular, I was interested in the differences between mix…
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All,Finally, here are the notes from last Thursday, 31 January 2008: Freemind Format (open in Freemind) XHTML Format Regards, -Bob rmolnar[at]indiana[dot]edu
Jenny Brown sent around a link to this website. I believe it does a nice job illustrating many of the aesthetic concepts we struggled with yesterday (especially hypermediation!). http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf p.s. if it is illegal to post this link for some reason, I take full responsibility for it and ask you to forget that I mentioned…
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