MCC-UE 1 Lecture 26: 12:4
27 Apr 2016
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The basics of information theory and especially as it applies to transmission and compression. Thinking of this with media and technology examples. The ways that digital networks and media systems change how we perform our identities. New media technologies change how we understand of what it means to be observed. Information in terms of information ow and appropriate ow. Privacy not just in general but as a contextual process. How new media and new technology systems shift our understandings of context and potentially create new contexts. The way that these systems create breaches (moments when things breakdown) Books are a form of analog media. What information theory does is takes all of this information and says all of these letters words and stuff doesn"t have to be printed on the page and doesn"t just apply to books but also music, lm, other. All of this information can all be converted to binary code.
