2. Digital Technology =
Digital Media |
New Media

3. Digital Arts: Production and examination of objects produced by and for computer technologies, such as video, animation, website, digital installation or performance, etc., theory and practice
Digital Humanities: Production and examination of texts, with a focus on digitalization of analog objects for the purpose of preservation and dissemination; theory and practice
Media Communication: Focus on producing media-rich information for news or business; theory and practice
Media Studies: Critique and study of media (both analog and digital); theory-based program
Information Studies: Focus on networks and information systems, including the development of databases; theory-based

4. What is digital media?

5. Digital: objects produced with the help of computers
Analog: objects produced without computers

6. Old Media = Analog
New Media = Digital

7. Media > “middle” (Latin); media is the plural of medium

8. Media are “systems of production and dissemination of information and entertainment and of exertion of various kinds of social controls.”
Klaus Krippendorff, Dictionary of Cybernetics
Media are “vehicles which carry messages. Common media channels are televisions, radios, telephones, and newspapers. Less common media are building materials, paintings, sculpture, dance and other means of communicating ideas. See also the singular form, Medium.”
“My Journey Home”

9. Media = “Any form of information”
(PCMag.com)
Multimedia = “Multiple forms of information”
PCMag.com

10. Mass media are channels of communication through which messages flow, produced by a few for consumption by many people (“My Journey Home”).

11. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001
“Texts distributed on a computer” (19)
Involves:
1. Numerical Representation
2. Modularity
3. Automation
4. Variability
5. Transcoding (27-48)

12. Websites “The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot” (1999)
by Stephanie Strickland

13. Virtual Worlds “Plante en croissance interactive” (1993)
by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau

14. Virtual Reality
“Osmose” (1995)
by Char Davies

15. Multimedia “A Full Moon in March” (2003)
by Kirby Malone & Gail Scott White, designers

16. Computer Games “nybble-engine” (2003)
by Margarete Jahrmann & Max Moswitzer

17. Interactive Installations
“Body Movies” (2001)
by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

18. Computer Animation
“Homestar Runner”
by The Brothers Chaps

19. Digital Video
“Link of the Moon” (1996)
by Mariko Mori

20. Digital Cinema
“Revenge of the Sith” (2005)
by George Lucas, Director

21. Human-Computer Interface
“Brautigan Bibliography and Archive” (2007)
by John F. Barber

22. Digital Music “Contact” (2003)
by Steve Gibson, Randy Adams, & Jim Andrews

23. Internet Radio

24. Digital Photography
by Harrison Higgs

25. Media=
1. Outlets (companies, organizations, invidivuals) that distribute information
2. Objects produced or distributed by information technologies; any form of information

26. Medium=* Medium: Method by which an object is produced or distributed
* Mediums is the plural of medium when it is used in this way since media has come to mean something completely different

27. Multimedia = Use of multiple media objects in a single work
Charles Sandison,
Utopia, 2007
Use of multiple media objects in a single work

28. Intermedia: Combining analog and digital practices in a single work
Peter Burr, performing with animation
Combining analog and digital practices in a single work

29. Transmedia= Use of different media for relaying the same information
Matrix, the game
Matrix, the movie

30. Digital Media Programs
Digital Music
Journalism
Visual Arts
Video/
Experimental Film
Digital Media Programs
Rhetoric/
English
Architecture
Game
Art & Design /
Studies
Computer
Science
Performing
Arts

31. Guiding Principles of Born Native Scholarship
1. A computer is not a tool or prosthesis that helps us to accomplish something; rather, it is the medium in which we work. (Oliver Grau, MediaArtHistories, 2007)
2. Text is any form of information by which we communicate an idea, feeling, or concept. (Mats Dahlstrom, “When Is a Text Text?,” 2002)
3. The medium affects the message. (Marshall McLuhan, The Medium Is the Massage, 1967)
4. Digital media are material texts. (N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, 2002)
5. The artifact of new media is just as important as the process it took to produce it. (Jan Van Looy & Jan Baetens, Close Reading New Media, 2003)
6. Making is not separate from thinking. (Stephano Vannotti, “Let Us Do What We Do Best: But How Can We Produce Knowledge by Designing Interfaces?,” 2008)
7. The design of information is a conversation about ideas––not about persuading people to do things. (Robert Jacobson, “Information Design,” 2000).
8. Criticism of digital media should be specific to digital media and relies on the sensory modalities of the body for that critique rather than abstract ideas or theories. (N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines, 2002)
9. Digital media involves an interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary study of art, science, and technology (Edward Shanken, Telematic Embrace, 2003) & the Humanities.