IFI7101: Essay topics

These are presented in relation to each lecture.

1. What characterizes new media?
2. New media – a technology or culture?
3. Is interactive media a subset of new media?
4. Do we drive interactive media or does it drive us?
5. How is interactive media facilitated and what does it facilitate?
6. How does a community serve as a "cultural interface" to mediate communication with computers?
7. Does new media narrative change our identity? (Will new media lead us back to the global tribe?)
8. What are new standards for writing narratives with new media?
9. Mixed media perception – how we may perceive one new media application? For this essay choose one new media application that is largely based on mixed media information. How can you explain the effect of new media on people, using this new media application as an example?
10. Learning at hybrid places: applications of the triplet Content-User-Tag (geotag). In this empirical essay you should investigate and explain interaction, knowledge building and learning possibilities in hybrid environments (combined from real locations and new media).
11. Digital ecosystem – a fertile metaphor or the new type of ecosystem that uses ecological principles? In this empirical essay you should describe how you conceptualize digital ecosystem concept using the examples from new media environments.