designing sociable media |
This project based course explores new design strategies for
social interaction in the computer mediated
world. Through weekly readings and design assignments we will
examine topics such as:
The course emphasizes developing visual and interactive literacy. |
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overview |
We live in an increasingly virtual world. We interact over email and
IM; we meet new people and keep up with friends via their online
profiles. We are continuously building a vast record of our various
transactions, a personal portrait in clicks, words and video. And
our communications are becoming integrated into the walls of our homes
and offices, a ubiquitous blanket of connectivity.
This virtual world is wholly synthetic: the design of the underlying system shapes how you appear, what you can see and hear, and who has access to what. As designers, we are responsible for thinking about the impact of our creations: we can envision a future in which technology expands our sociability, making an extraordinarily creative, communicative and cooperative world, but we can also envision a dystopic future where friendship has become a conduit for marketing and awareness of universal surveillance choreographs our every move. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
requirements |
Requirements include weekly reading and design projects, active
class participation and a final project.
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syllabus |
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