COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Spring 2008 -- SPCM 280, Prof. Sandvig
 
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February 11, 2008

Lecture: What's special about digital media?

Key concepts: digital, analog, advantages of digital, convergence
Examples: digital compression of a sentence and a photograph


Class Reader: Numerical Representation

Manovich, L. (2001). The Language of New Media. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (pp. 27-30, "Principles of New Media #1: Numerical Representation.") Password Protected Online Full-Text (PDF) [Get Password Help]


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