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New Media??
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What Is It? Since the late 1970s "artists working with compters" have formed the "new media field" with "new institutions devoted to the production and support for new media" founded in Europe at the end of the 1990s, (Manovich). In Karlsruhe, [|The Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe], in Frankfurt, [|The New Media Institute]and in the Netherlands, [|The Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts].

Increase in Communications Technology spending -a result of increased househould spending on information and communications technology; "Between 1997 and 2003, average household spending on computer equipment and supplies rose to $326 from $299 - even more significant given that computer prices were falling during the same period," (Mxquigge).

__The Internet__ History/Evolution

-Prehistory 1843-1956 -Sputnik to ARPAnet 1957-1969 -The Network 1970-78 -"Because it's there" 1979-1984 -"The Wild Frontier" 1985-1990 -The World Wide Web 1991-1994 -Rising Popularity 1995-1998 -"Living on Internet Time" 1998-Present (http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/)

-Complete Internet Time Line http://www.greatachievements.org/?id=3736

-History of Communications: Internet: FCC

http://www.fcc.gov/omd/history/internet/something2share.html

-Short history of the internet http://www.library.yale.edu/div/instruct/internet/history.htm

Important People -Tim Burners-Lee http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm

Soc/Eco/Poli Factors

Pros/Cons

Internet for Education -In The Chair replaces Music Teachers (wired.com) -webvista, blackboard -download lectures ontop iPods at York (The Star article)

Works Cited:

Manovich. New Media Reader Michelle Mcquigge http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/061110/technology/technology_statscan_digital_times_2 (Nov 12, 2006). http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72092-0.html?tw=wn_index_19 (Nov 12, 2006). http://www.historyoftheinternet.com/ (Nov 12, 2006).