Archive for the ‘Digital Media’ Category
WHAT IS A MASHUP? Mashups are hybrid forms on the Internet that use the API (Application Programming Interface) of two or more programmes to create a new interface with different functionality – that is greater than the functionality of the individual APIs. No longer do creatives need permission from proprietary software companies to make new [...]
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Tags: API, atom, Craigslist, feeds, Googlemaps, mashups, push/pull orientated data, rss, screen scraping, TuneGlue, Yahoo Pipes
The Power of the Network
HUBS AND MEANING-MAKING We might not realise it but we are all part of a network. Even if we largely keep to ourselves we use networks to navigate the world. Roads, trains, telephones, computers, friends associates – everything basically from the structure of our brain and arterial system in our bodies to the way we [...]
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Digital Media driving forces
This video from TED will provide the first screening for this module and gives an overview of the history and driving forces behind New Media. Many of the themes touched on in Hirshberg’s talk will be revisited throughout the term. Here are some of the links mentioned in the rest of lecture: Panoramas, cycloramas and [...]
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WELCOME 214MC
Welcome to all level 2 students taking 214MC Digital Media at Coventry University. This is a mandatory module (and an option) that runs in term 2 – Jan-March 2010. I will be uploading posts, documents and materials to this blog over the course of the term as well as giving links to relevant video, photography [...]
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