Introduction to Media Theory

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• Overview


• Requirements



• Media: Dead or Alive


• Introduction to the History of Technology and Art


• Structures of the Internet

Hypertext, Hypermedia
Web-based Art

• Wireless Internet

Games

• Privacy, Surveillance


• Free Software Movement, Open Source, Peer-to-peer


• Software Art


• Databases, Maps, Visualization


• Tactical Media, Hacktivism, Activism


• After Mechanical Reproduction


• Copyright/ Copyleft


• Online Identity, Translation


• Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality


• Collective Media, Participatory Cultures