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Week 1: Introduction. What defines digital media.
Lecture 1: Wednesday, 8/31, Course overview and Introduction.
Lecture 2: Friday, 9/2, History, Digital Media I.
Week 2: Digital Media, Tattoos on the Heart
Lecture 3: Monday, 9/5, Digital Media II.
Lecture 4: Wednesday, 9/7, Digital Media--Cultural forms; "Tattoos on the Heart".
Lecture 5: Friday, 9/9, Digital Media III, Immersive Experiences.
Week 3: Economics of information age, Media convergence, The Matrix
Lecture 6: Monday, 9/12, Economics of Information age.
Lecture 7: Wednesday, 9/14, Media convergence.
Lecture 8: Friday, 9/16, "The Matrix"
Week 4: Media Convergence, Digital Inequality
Lecture 9: Monday, 9/19, Media Convergence II.
Lecture 10: Wednesday, 9/21, The Digital Divide
Lecture 11: Friday, 9/23, Digital Divide, Evaluating sources.
Week 5: Introduction to Python Programming
Lecture 12: Monday, 9/26, Introduction to Python.
Lecture 13: Wednesday, 9/28, Lab 1
Lecture 14: Friday, 9/30, Strings, conditionals.
Week 6: Conditionals, Loops
Lecture 15: Monday, 10/3, Conditionals, Turtles
Lecture 16: Wednesday, 10/5, Lab 2
Lecture 17: Friday, 10/7, While loops.
Week 7: while loops, lists
Lecture 18: Monday, 10/17, while loops, etc.
Lecture 19: Wednesday, 10/19, Lab 3
Lecture 20: Friday, 10/21, Strings and Lists.
Week 8: for loops
Lecture 21: Monday, 10/24, for loops.
Lecture 22: Wednesday, 10/26, Lab 4
Lecture 23: Friday, 10/28, for loops, functions.
Week 9: functions, review
Lecture 24: Monday, 10/31, functions II.
Lecture 25: Wednesday, 11/2, Lab 5
Lecture 26: Friday, 11/4, Review for Exam.
Week 10: Privacy
Lecture 27: Monday, 11/7, Privacy.
Lecture 28: Wednesday, 11/9, Midterm Exam
Lecture 29: Friday, 11/11, Privacy II.
Week 11: Privacy, Politics
Lecture 30: Monday, 11/14, Privacy, Politics.
Lecture 31: Wednesday, 11/16, The Internet and Politics.
Lecture 32: Friday, 11/18, The Arab Spring.
Week 12: RefWorks
Lecture 33: Monday, 11/21, Using RefWorks to cite literature in your papers.
Week 13: Identity and the Internet
Lecture 34: Monday, 11/28, Identity and the Internet.
Lecture 35: Wednesday, 11/30, Discussion of "Alone Together, Part 2"
Thursday, 12/1: Screening of "Blade Runner"
Friday, 12/2: No Class
Week 14: Interacting with Robots
Monday, 12/5, Discussion of "Blade Runner".
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Montserrat 112G--Computers and Society
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