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February 12, 2007

Lecture: What's special and important about digital media?

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

Textbook: 9: The Internet

Read Chapter 9, The Internet, from Media Now. Key concepts: Note examples of contingency and constitutiveness in the history of the Internet, the Internet as a new source of cultural diversity or fragmentation