new media 2

SPRING 2011: INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA

readings

individualized reading programs

Andy

  • week 1:
    • http://www.markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/icons-symbols-and-a-semiotic-web
    • http://www.snap2objects.com/2009/07/03/semiotics-a-powerful-communication-tool-for-designers/
    • The Relevance of Semiotics to the Internet: How Web Designers use Metaphors in Web Development - Sherson
  • week 2:
  • week 3: Erickson - Working With Interface Metaphors
  • week 4: "Iconic Semiotics on the Web" Cardenas, Benito and "The Semiotic Web: Don't Forget the User Among all the Semantics" - Frey, Jeremy G

Amanda

  • week 1:
    • Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It ch 1-2
  • week 2:
    • Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It ch 3-4
  • week 3:
    • Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It ch 5-6
  • week 4:
    • Jonathan Zittrain - The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It ch 7-8

Annalise

  • week 1:
    • designing interfaces for children article
  • week 2:
    • "Design for Use" (Ch 1 of John Cato - User-Centered Web Design)
  • week 3:
    • "Discover, Design, Use" (Ch 2 of John Cato - User-Centered Web Design)
  • week 4:
    • "Designing the System" (Ch 4 of John Cato - User-Centered Web Design)

Ethan

  • week 1:
    • "What is New Media?" in Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
    • Kim Cascone, "The Aesthetics of Failure: 'Post-Digital' Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music"
  • week 2:
    • "Art in the Age of Digital Distribution" - Mark Tribe and Reena Jana in New Media Art
  • week 3: "The History of the Interface in Interactive Art" - Soke Dinkla
  • week 4: "The Art of Interactivity: Interactive Installations from Gallery to Street" - Martin Rieser

Candice

  • week 1:
    • "Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings" (Jakob Nielsen , Alertbox, August 20, 2007)
    • "Fancy Formatting, Fancy Words = Looks Like a Promotion = Ignored" (Jakob Nielson, Alertbox, September 4, 2007)
    • "The Most Hated Advertising Techniques" (Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, December 6, 2004)
    • "Feature Richness and User Engagement" (Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, August 6, 2007)
  • week 2:
  • week 3:
  • week 4:
    • ch 4 & 5 - Creating Flash Advertising - From Concept to Tracking - Microsites, Video Ads and More Jason Fincanon

Heather

  • week 1:
  • week 2:
  • week 3:
    • "Information Rights and Intellectual Freedom" - Julie E Cohen
  • week 4:
    • "Banned Books: A Study of Censorship" - Jennifer Rossuck

possible resources

new media

Lev Manovoch excerpts from The Language of New Media

Borges

interface design

"Characteristics of Attention and Visual Short-Term Memory: Implications for Visual Interface Design" - Greg Davis (available through JStor - log in to UB Libraries and search for the title under "Articles")

Essl, G. "On Gender in New Music Interface Technology," Organised Sound, 8:1, 19-30, 2003. (pdf is available on author's website link)

what is an interface?

McGonigal, Jane. "The Curious Interface: A Design Manifesto in Favor of Play." linked from authors website (search for "manifesto") (there are two versions of the manifesto)

Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology André Nusselder (info and sample chapters)

Galloway, Alexander R. "The Unworkable Interface." (available through Project Muse - log in to UB Libraries and search for the "Alexander Galloway" under "Authors")

User Interface: A Personal View by Alan Kay (pdf available)

other

The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It - Jonathan Zittrain

GltchLnguistx: The Machine in the Ghost / Static Trapped in Mouths - Curt Cloninger
The Construction of Experience by David Rokeby
Behind the Blip: Essays on the Culture of Software by Matthew Fuller
Democracy Begins Between Two by Luce Irigaray
Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas by Richard Wolin

interent advertising/marketing

Nielsen, Jakob. "Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings" http://www.useit.com/alertbox/banner-blindness.html

"Internet Advertising: Is Anybody Watching?" by Xavier Drèze (this text and others availabel at author's website)

Brandt Dainow - 1/26/2010 A marketer's guide to overcoming banner blindness http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/25737.asp

Verma, P. and Verma, D.C. "Internet emergency alert system" http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1606109