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Important informationTuesday 28th October
Room 6B10 (the room in which the lectures were held)
9:30amThe quiz questions are all based on this semester’s lectures. Some of the answers are in the lecture notes available online. Some are to be found in the recommended readings, and some by doing a small amount of research into some of the ideas/concepts/terms raised.Thanks to a collective course effort, we also have a pretty good resource at our delicious page.Notes/slides from all the lectures are now on this site. Go for it.Revision (some clues)Lecture 1: What networked media isWhat mediums are we talking about? What mediums aren’t we talking about? How do they differ?Get a grasp on the basic history of the internet, its core technologies and cultural effects.Lecture 2: BlogsWhat makes a website a blog? What are some of the effects of this medium? On media consumers, on media industries? What technologies have contributed to the rise of the blog, and how do they work?Lecture 3: Carving up the worldHave a good look at the lecture, make sure you understand (and can explain) the main terms raised. How is the organisation and classification of online content changing?Lecture 4: Web 2.0What technologies have prompted this shift in the internet? What is actually changing for users? For artists and media producers? For industry?Lecture 5: MultiplicityMake sure you really understand the ‘wisdom of crowds’ concept.Lecture 6: HTML and CSSJust make sure you understand what HTML and CSS actually do.Lecture 7: Data. Everywhere.Read the lecture, follow some suggested links, enough so to be confident in talking about data visualisation as a concept.Lecture 8: Remix, API, MashupYou’ve all played with some applications and interfaces built using APIs: think about how they might work.
October 23, 2008
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Admin, Lectures
Attached are the lecture slides for Max’s lecture on APIs
October 07, 2008
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Lectures
I started this lecture by discussing how we can use scale, colour, shape, position, movement to help us understand data. As humans, we’re more easily able to apprehend and compare quantities when they’re well presented. I showed a couple of TED videos - Hans Rosling on visualising development economics, and Jonathan Harris about his social-media projects, including the amazing WeFeelFine. We finished with a look at the Radiohead video for House of Cards, which is one giant datavisualisation. Along the way we looked at some other visualisations from NYTimes.com, as well as some pretty work based on archive records, and one on internal crossreferences in a well-known piece of religious literature.Big PDFs of the presentation attached: delicious-ed links in the feed. -MH
September 30, 2008
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Lectures, Data Visualisation
Attached are the slides from Max’s lecture on HTML and CSS.
September 23, 2008
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Lectures
In this lecture I started with an anecdote about the wisdom of crowds, from James Surowiecki’s book of the same name. I talked about various aspects of the notion of multiplicity -“many-ness”- as it relates to networked media.
I discussed and gave examples of sampling, iteration, combination, collaborative filtering, and so on. I then showed some example of the aesthetics of multiplicity, from the 1K project to Aaron Koblin’s Flightpatterns, through to MC Escher and the opening ceremony at the Beijing Olympics.We finished with a video from TED demonstrating Photosynth. Which rocks. (Also: an analog precursor)
August 26, 2008
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Lectures
Lecture notes now up!This week’s readings:
Wired 13.08: We Are the Web
What is Web 2.0?
August 12, 2008
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Lectures, Reading
This lecture was about structure, and taxonomy, and hierarchies, and tags, and design patterns, both in the physical world and online. Lecture notes below. As always, happy to discuss any aspects of the lecture by email at michael@icelab.com.au. - MH
August 05, 2008
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Lectures
Below are the lecture notes for the week 2 lecture on blogs.Here are some links I spoke about that you might find handy:Blog search engine and resource: Technorati
Browser based RSS feed reader: Bloglines & Easy-sub ‘sub with bloglines’ button
Blogging platforms: Blogger and Wordpress
Microblogging: Twitter
Social bookmarking: del.icio.usThere are plenty more within the pdf.Now get out there, find an RSS feed reader, some blogs you like and subscribe to them. Why not subscribe to the rss feed of this site while you’re at it, and you’ll always be up to date.If you’re feeling brave sign up for your own blog before this week’s tutorial, you’ll have a head start and you can spend the tutorial writing your first blog post.Welcome to the blogosphere.
Nathan
July 29, 2008
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Lectures
People: below, a couple of versions of the lecture notes for Lecture 1. In the lecture I also encouraged you to read Vannevar Bush’s seminal article As We May Think.I also recommended you go to the Introductions post and, well, introduce yourself.-Michael
July 24, 2008
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Lectures