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...seemingly all-encompassing term, new media describes the use of electronics, computers, and communications systems to create unique content as well as the dissemination of that content for consumption. Facebook, YouTube, and Wikipedia all fall under the scope of new media, as do video games and interactive art exhibits like “Lossless.” In fact, “Lossless” utilizes several new media elements. Besides its methods of image distortion, the project’s online element includes a Wiki—or user-modifiable Web page—that holds pictures and information...
...Internet] has changed the way people gain access to information and entertainment, and the actual content and form of information and entertainment,” says Jason A. Kaufman ’93. Kaufman, a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, recently taught a sociology course called “Media and the American Mind,” which studied American society through advertising, telecommunications, regulation, entertainment, and other forms of media. Kaufman says that as an Internet-based digital culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high...
...It’s now more and more possible to join a niche community that’s built around common taste in some esoteric form of cultural consumption,” Kaufman says. As the volume and variety of multimedia content available on any computer across the globe increases every day, artists within these enclaves gain the ability to distribute their work to anyone with a keyboard. “Rock bands are just as likely to emerge through self-promotion via MySpace or YouTube as they are through major record companies,” Kaufman says...
...Voice. Through reader comments on The Voice’s website and related blogs, the publication seeks to create a consistent dialogue between its print and digital forms, Flanzraich says. The Voice also recently began a partnership with Harvard-Radcliffe Television to provide a significant amount of online video content...
...current Shakespeare requirement will remain, professors said, although it may be expanded to encompass the Bard’s contemporaries. Faculty members would not comment on the content of the fourth requirement...