Weekly Schedule
Impact of New Information Resources:
Multimedia and Networks

taught by Howard Besser

Sept 26

Background, History, Review of Terminology

Oct 3

Metadata for Networked Information
Rights Management
Deconstruction of Social Phenomena

Oct 10

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

Oct 17

Continued discussion on the Internet and changing social structures

• Multimedia Reviews due

Oct 24

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
• 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

*Oct 31

Halloween

Nov 7

Changing Cultural Institutions, Changes to Processes (like photography)

• At your leisure, visit the University Art Museum and spend at least half an hour using the hand-held computerized museum tourguide
• 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)

Nov 14

Summary & Overview of New Technology Impact

Nov 21

Final Presentations in Class

• Final Papers/Projects due

Dec 5

Final Presentations in Class

• Last date final Papers/Projects accepted

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