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COGN 280 Advanced Workshop in Communication Media: Interactive Documentaries and Non-fiction Games

Prof. Brian Goldfarb

Term: Winter 2007

 

 


Links/Resourses

week: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |

Week One (Jan. 7): Introduction
Cards

 

Interactive projects:

archives

Week Two (Jan. 14): Documentary Theory: Realities and Representations

 

Week Three (Jan. 21): Documents and Activism

Week Four (Jan. 28): Playful Interaction. Forms Drawn from Games

 

Week Five (Feb. 4): Games, Play, and "the Real World"

Week Six (Feb. 11): The Web and Database as Cultural Forms. Network Space and Multimedia Forms

 

Week Seven (Feb. 18): Thinking through Search Engines and Browsers.

Beurau of Inverse Technology http://bureauit.org/

Week Eight (Feb. 26): Circulation of Images. Image rights and fair-use doctrine.

Week Nine (Mar. 3): Nonlinear Texts

Week Ten (Mar. 10): Wrap Up. Presentation of Final Projects