Our discussion topic is: what is “new media”?  We will examine media from the perspective of information theory, cybernetics and symbolic processing before moving on to new media and its role in some nascent fields in the academy, like digital humanities and art practice.

 

Readings can be found at the Townsend page here: http://townsendgroups.berkeley.edu/document/fall-2014-week-1-what-new-media