New Media, Spring 2007

Schedule

Note: The schedule is continously updated. However, important info regarding activities from today's date and one week ahead can be regarded as stable. I.e. whenever you check out this page, there will be no major change to activities one week into the future. Changes to the schedule will mostly regard activity content, not time and place of activities.

day, date	time, place	type	content	who	primary literature	other literature / links
Tue 03/20	13.15-17.00, MA378	L	Introduction & course overview A generic new-media model		Janlert (2005a)

Tue 03/27	13.15-15.00, MA378	L	Hypermedia		Balasubramanian (1993) Bieber et al. (1997)
Thur 03/29	23.59	DL	assignment 1 deadline
Fri 03/30	13.15-15.00, MA378	L	Cyberspace		Janlert (2005b)

Tue 04/03	13.15, HUMlab		Located media and the question of manifestation in archaeology	Christopher Witmore, Brown University	http://www.humlab.umu.se/node/471	(not part of the course but relevant)
Tue 04/03	23.59	DL	assignment. 2 choice of subject deadline
E A S T E R
Tue 04/17	13.15-15.00, MA378		Cyberspace (updated)
Wed 04/18	23.59	DL	assignment 2 draft report submission deadline
Thur 04/19	15.15-17.00, lecturer's office (D447)		assignment 2 report discussion with lecturer	group by group		obligatory
Fri 04/20	13.15-15.00, MA378		Cyberspace 2		Articles 40 and 51 in the course book

Tue 04/24	13.15-15.00, MA378		Hypermedia 2		Articles number 02, {08, 16}, {11, 21, 30}, 54, 42 in the course book
Thu 04/26	23.59	DL	assignment 2 final report and slideshow submission deadline
Fri 04/27	13.15-17.00, MA378		student-held seminars	presentation schedule	submitted material	obligatory

Wed 05/02	23.59	DL	assignment 3 choice of subject deadline
Fri 05/04	13.15-15.00, MA378 + meeting room C		Workshop: designing a new medium

Tue 05/08	13.15-15.00, MA156		Virtual media		Articles 38, 25, 34
Tue 05/08	23.59	DL	assignment 3 draft report/prototype submission deadline
Thu 05/10	14.00, HUMlab		Transdisciplinarity in Cyberspace Ethnography	David Hakken, Indiana University	http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/research/profiles/dhakken.asp	(not part of the course but relevant)
Fri 05/11	13.15-16.00, lecturer's office (D447)		assignment 3 discussion with lecturer	group by group		obligatory

Wed 05/20	23.59	DL	assignment 3 final report/prototype & slideshow submission deadline

Tue 05/22	13.15-17, MA146		assignment 3 presentations			obligatory

Sat 06/02	9.00-15.00, Östra paviljongen, room 2		Exam

Fri 08/31	9.00-15.00, Östra paviljongen, room 6		Re-exam

Fri 01/11/08	to be determined		Catch-up exam

Schedule for assignment 2 discussion with lecturer Thu 04/19 in his office (D447)

15.15 Group 1: Erik, Ali, German

15.35 Group 2: Petter, Fredrik

15.55 Group 3: Angelina, Elvira

16.15 Group 4: Waseem, Imran, Asrar-ul-Haq

16.35 Group 5: Henrik, Christine

Schedule for student lecture event Fri 04/27 in MA378 (preliminary)

9.30-10.10 11.20-12.00	Laptop w. network connection available in lecturer's office. Groups are encouraged to install and try out their presentations in one of these periods so that no time is spent on technical problems in the afternoon.
13.15-13.20	Introduction	LEJ
13.20-13.45	Macromedia Flash	Erik, Ali, German
13.45-14.10	Semantic Web	Petter, Fredrik
	coffee break / buffer
14.25-14.50	AJAX	Angelina, Elvira
15.15-15.40	PHP and HTML	Waseem, Imran, Asrar-ul-Haq
15.40-16.05	WIKI	Henrik, Christine

Schedule for assignment 3 discussion with lecturer Fri 05/11 in his office (D447)

13.15 Group A: Petter, Fredrik (Semantic MP3 player)

13.35 Group B: Angelina, Elvira (Bulletin board for entertainment events)

13.55 Group C: Ali (The digital divide – Internet access around the planet)

14.15 Group D: Waseem, Imran, Asrar (…)

14.35 Group E: Erik (Computer games...)

14.55 Group F: German (P2P networks and copyright)

15.15 Group G: Henrik, Christine (…)