Introduction to New Media gives students a hands-on feel for the history of new media technologies and their current social impacts. This year’s course features a special focus on the most disruptive technology of the present day, namely generative artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and DALL-E.
In the first half of the semester, students will write, code, and create media using digital tools to express themselves and connect to the world around them.
This week defines new media and acquaints students with the course.
This week introduces visual creativity with a focus on web design.
This week reveals how digital tools have made still and moving pictures easier to create but also less trustworthy.
This week asks how new media can reinvent storytelling in the form of rich media and games.
This week looks at how digital audio and virtual environments can isolate or reunite us with the world around us.
In the second half of the semester, students perform similar tasks to the first half, but this time using generative AI–all the time comparing their experiences in reflective journal entries.
This week you learn contemporary AI controversies as well as how to write with a chatbot.Students below a B- stay until caught up or class ends.
This week focuses on generating code and images with AI.
This week dives into more depth on text-to-image generators.
Flowers Blooming Backward Into Noise (2:50-26:30)
Quiz 7 Text-to-Image Generators
Guest talk by Eryk Salvaggio on AI images
Task 9: Illustrate a hoax with AI
This week looks at generating stories with AI with an emphasis on avoiding cliches.
This week asks whether AI-generated animation and audio is good or bad for artists.
Students use this holiday week to catch up on missing work.
This week focuses on AI’s future impact on education and jobs.
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