Weekly Schedule
Impact of New Information Resources:
Multimedia and Networks

taught by Howard Besser

Jan 24

Introduction to the course

Jan 31

Background, History, Review of Terminology
Deconstruction of Social Phenomena

The Internet and changing social structures

• Before class read:
  • Movies-on-demand May Significantly Change the Internet appeared in the October 1994 ASIS Bulletin theme issue on Entertainment Technology and Information Services
  • The Information SuperHighway: Social and Cultural Impact Chapter from Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information, edited by Jim Brook and Iain Boal, City Lights Books, 1995

Feb 7

Continued discussion on the Internet and changing social structures
Formation of Working Groups

• Assignment due next week: (see Feb 14 list)

Feb 14

Changing Cultural Institutions, Changes to Processes (like photography)

• Before class read:
  • Read The Transformation of the Museum and the Way it's Perceived, draft of chapter to appear in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), Museums and Emerging Technologies, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1996
  • Read The Changing Role of Photographic Collections With the Advent of Digitization, draft of chapter to appear in Katherine Jones-Garmil (ed.), Museums and Emerging Technologies, Washington: American Association of Museums, 1996
  • At your leisure, visit the University Art Museum and spend at least half an hour using the hand-held computerized museum tourguide
  • Assignment due next week: Your focus group should watch the 1st science fiction film

Feb 21

Changing Cultural Institutions, Changes to Processes (like photography)
Guest: Gary Handman on Evaluation of Multimedia
Begin discussion of the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project (MESL)

• Assignment due next week: Spend at least an hour or two learning about the Museum Educational Site Licensing Project
  • browse the MESL web site
  • look at the Berkeley-based Mellon grant to study the economics of network access to visual information
  • look at a longer version of Berkeley's original proposal to Mellon

Feb 28

• Assignment due next week: Familiarize yourself with the MESL sites, and peform 3 identical queries at all the sites

Mar 7

Discussion of Multimedia Reviewing Process
Discussion of why the same query yields different results at different MESL Sites

• Assignment due next week: Compare image display and user interface at all the MESL sites

Mar 14

Comparative discussion of image display and user interface at all the MESL sites

• Each focus group should be prepared to give a 10-minute presentation on what they've been doing
• Your focus group should watch the 2nd science fiction film
• Send a one-paragraph description of your final project to Kim Ta (kimta@uclink2.berkeley.edu)

Mar 21

Summary & Overview of New Technology Impact

Discussion of differences between the MESL sites
Introduction to Evaluation of Multimedia Programs

• Assignment (due Apr 4):
  • Read at least 2 evaluations of multimedia programs
  • Find guidelines or criteria for reviewing multimedia programs
  • Find guidelines or criteria for reviewing other types of works

Mar 28

Holiday

Apr 4

Metadata for Networked Information
Rights Management

Apr 11

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• Multimedia Reviews due

Apr 18

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*Apr 25

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May 2

Final Presentations in Class

• Final Papers/Projects due

May 9

Final Presentations in Class

• Last date final Papers/Projects accepted

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