general issues: 

readings & summaries: every week there will be a reading assignment. and students have to post a ~500 word summary of the readings to your blog.(*every class week thursday 24:00) one or two students will be appointed in each class for presenting reading summaries to the class. the appointed students are supposed to lead discussion of the appointed reading. at every class every students should contribute at least a comment, question or observation in the course of the class discussion.

papers: for this course you will write two papers. each will be two pages in length. the mid-term paper will examine open api via comparison with a web crawler. your paper should examine issues of new media uses, or artistic uses. the final term paper will analyze a media artwork using network that is chosen by each student freely. the point of this second paper will be to explore the new media technology in terms of media art. (fullname.doc)

weblogs & mailing list : you will be required to create a weblog, and subscribe to a class mailing list.

policy: 

attendance is manditory. four or more absences will result in no grade.  

all assignments must be completed on time.  late submission of outlines and papers will receive a mark-down of 10% per day.  

late submission of reading summaries will receive no credit.

missed reading presentations will not be rescheduled and thus will result in no credit.  

grading:

• relative grading will be applied.
• weblog (written reading summaries): 20% (there will be 10 assignments, each worth 2% of your final grade)
• reading presentation: 15% (you will be asked to lead discussion of one of the readings) * w/o presentation, you can compensate your grade using class participation.
• class participation: 15% (to receive full credit for class participation you will need to contribute at least one comment, question, or observation to the discussion every class meeting)
• papers: 60% (there will be 2 such assignments each worth 30% of your final grade. *get caution of the plagiarism.)
• attendance will be applied to the grade flexibly.