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One of many tutorials to be found online. The use of this software for your Lightning Talk preparation requires you to compile image and text on 20 slides. These sort of basics are covered in first 3 pages of this tutorial. You will also need to change the "start transition" to automatic, and "delay" to 20.0 s within the Slide Inspector. I'll review this part in class, it's essential to automating the playback of slides. Education Technology Services "Keynote Tutorial" Accessed April 25, 2014. https://blogs.ksbe.edu/ksedtech/

A PDF of Program or be Programmed Douglas Rushkoff "Program or be Programmed" 2010, http://www.scribd.com/doc/47990572/Rushkoff-Douglas-Program-or-Be-Programmed-Ten-Commands-for-a-Digital-Age

Because why stop at distorting just images. Why not how we speak as well?

In this glitch-art maker, you can create your own glitched reality using found images online. While I find the thought of glitches and breaks in internet reality terrifying, this, for a brief moment and almost countering the definition of glitch in it's production, puts the power to break that reality in your hands.

Carl Sagan talking about 3 dimensional creatures living in a 3 dimensional world, but maybe that is not the case. Imagining that the universe is expanding and and can be beyond dualistic thinking is an amazing concept. That the universe can be finite AND unbounded is interesting. This is in discussion of the meta-reality discussion

This audio-visual overview of the Internet of Things was published by IBM's Social Media cohorts in 2010. Combining voice-over and well crafted, legible motion graphics, it provides a summary of the underlying concepts of the Internet of Things. In 2004, when Bruce Sterling was first writing about spimes, he mentions the Internet of Things, a then emergent infrastructure linked to build out of RFID enabled gizmos, and eventually, perhaps, spimes. "The Internet of Things" posted by IBMSocialMedia on March 15, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEbMV295Kk Accessed March 21, 2014

This beautifully animated four-minute mini-film provides a simple yet profound response to a poignant question: What is the connection between social networks and being lonely?

Nice! This is very powerful example of critical media practice. Augmenting traditional rhetorical appeals and persuasive gestures with the affordances of digital animation and sound design.

One of several excellent online collections of Data Visualization endeavors. Browse the many different categories, keywords, authors and approaches to comprehending 'big data'. Along with aesthetic variation along the metaphorical to modernist continuum, there are many new media trends covered. Those of you exploring social media in your final research paper may well find this useful reference, too! Visual Complexity. Last updated February 19, 2014. www.visualcomplexity.com/vc. Accessed April 6, 2014

Here's a collection of the NSA slides, revealed by Edward Snowden by way of the Guardian news. The slides detail the various pervasive and invasive methods of surveillance, tapping into phone and social media networks, as orchestrated by the National Security Agency. This is the internet-of-things-that-go-bump-in-the-night. Also, as discussed in class, the layout and design of these slides is often horrendous, complicating or obstructing clear communication of information. "NSA Prism program slides" The Guardian News. Published Friday 1 November 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/nov/01/prism-slides-nsa-document. Accessed April 6, 2014

This website catalogs the growing trend of utilizing animated infographics to convey information. Not only is it becoming necessary to continuously filter the great amounts of data we experience into slick new ways of perceiving, a database that houses these new tools of perception becomes useful. Of particular interest to me is the combination of database with social media on vizualizing.org - the site hosts contests and challenges to better suss out interesting new designs in organizing information.

The Cantor Art Museum at Stanford is hosting a new exhibit that is the result of a body of work designed and implemented by a host of medical experts. James Chang MD is the chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery and has long had an affinity for observing the hand conditions he often treated in sculpture by Rodin. In this project, the bronze hands were scanned and the internal structures superimposed digitally, which are then viewed by a museum patron with a smart phone or pad via an augmented reality application. This is a lovely example of the collapse between disciplines - medicine and art - that advances in imaging technology allows.

When I typed "meta-reality" into youtube, what I found was not exactly what I was expecting. These glasses are not using the term in the same way as the assigned readings, but they function in a fascinating way. The cyber reality functions similarly to how we navigate our touch screens, but rather than being confined by the screen, this product gives the illusion that it's projections are a part of one's 3d landscape. Globetrendy. "Trying on meta-reality glasses." Youtube, 14 November 2013. Web http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rj9nMJq1Vk

This brief video discusses how our senses are too limited to perceive everything is going on. The video suggests that technology has begun to form a sixth sense for us, one that tunes us into a reality that we cannot perceive with our own senses. Bizarre. qualcommsparks. "The Digital Sixth Sense." Youtube. 11 September 2012 Web

In this recent article, Ian Wallace explores the aesthetic of Post-Internet art. He examines the role of new websites, such as Tumblr, and discusses how this new era of art brings online elements into the real world and vice versa. There are a lot of post-internet artists mentioned in the article, along with links to other articles about them, which I found helpful in getting a better idea of the Post-Internet aesthetic. Wallace, Ian. "What Is Post-Internet Art? Understanding the Revolutionary New Art Movement." Artspace. http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/post_internet_art (accessed April 17, 2014).

An interview with Glitch Studies Manifesto author Rosa Menkman that discusses glitch as a genre and Menkman's influence's, inspiration and process. She goes into detail about glitch videos and talks about some artists who create work in the same category. I thought there was a lot of insight into Glitch Studies and there are some useful links at the bottom of the interview too that give more information. Rosinski , Andrew. "INTERVIEW WITH ROSA MENKMAN, DUTCH VISUALIST." DINCA.org. http://dinca.org/interview-with-rosa-menkman-dutch-visualist/5323.htm (accessed April 17, 2014).

This article written by John Crabb is about the sixth senses, hyper-space, of corse the fourth dimension. The article is a nice parallel to the Meta Reality reading because is discusses C.H. Hiltion and sources the The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art. The article explains the hows the ideas of the fourth dimension are not only associated with visual are, but also liturater. Giving examples of authors such as HP Lovecraft, and Lewis Carroll incorporating the ideas of the fourth dimension into their work. Crabb, John . "Notes on the Fourth Dimension | HiLobrow." HiLobrow RSS. http://hilobrow.com/2012/05/24/notes-on-the-fourth-dimension/

As I was reading the Cyber Space Alarm article at term struck my interest, "Cyber-Democray." So I Googled it and I found this very interesting article written in 1995 which discusses a lot of the key points that we have been addressing in class. Everything from the technology to the political involvement of the internet. This article also discusses MOOs and the internist as a "public sphere." All of these topics are addressed with the explaining the "cyber democracy. Poster, Mark . "democ.htm." democ.htm. http://www.hnet.uci.edu/mposter/writings/democ.html

Ctheory is a long running journal of theory, interviews with artists and critical essays on technology and culture. At least two decades of material here! We read the Paul Virlio article "Speed and Information" from this site. There are many great and illuminating articles and essays to be found here. You might try running some keywords from your research and see where it takes you. Ctheory ed. Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. Accessed April 25, 2014. http://ctheory.net/home.aspx

In an article published by Psychology Today, author Ray Williams writes about the affects of Facebook on a persons self-esteem and sense of self with an emphasis on Facebook's connection to narcissistic behaviors. The article references a study done at York University, which found that among Facebook users between the ages of 18 to 25, the people who used Facebook the most tended to have narcissistic personalities. In his research, Williams also found competing data that suggested Facebook may in fact boost self-esteem. Because the phenomena of social media is still so new to us, it is difficult to come to finite conclusions about the affects of social media. Williams, Ray. "Do Facebook and Other Social Media Encourage Narcissism?." Last modified June, 19th 2013, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201306/do-facebook-and-other-social-media-encourage-narcissism.

This is an excellent resource for researching a variety of primary source documents. Digitized films, rare books, zines, audio recordings from many diverse historical and contemporary sources. Of particular use to New Media Studies are the copious amounts of documents from the so-called "digital revolution" of the 1990s. This includes television programs like "Computer Chroncicles" (1983-2002) chock full of artists and technologists and the ideas that inspired them. The artifacts in this series including the various motion graphics, fashion and even jargon that permeated the computer cultures at this time! There are also fairly recent additions, including the cyberpunk zines "Reality Hackers" and "High Frontiers." These present a 'street-level' pulse on the countercultural charge of new media in the 80s and 90s. Finally, I want to point out a free service offered here that is called the Wayback Machine --- a searchable history of the Internet, billions of websites archived continuously since the Internet went commercial in the mid 1990s! The Internet Archive. "The Wayback Machine" https://archive.org/web/. (Accessed January 24, 2014)