JOUR 333 – Introduction to Interactive Media Design
Background, analysis, design, and production techniques relevant to interactive media, primarily focusing on the Web but appropriate for other emerging media.
Our world is changing. With the advent of Web 2.0 technologies, we are no longer passive consumers of information (such as through television or news print). We have become a “participatory culture” and expect to interact with the world around us…including our media.
As a result, professional journalists must become familiar with basic design concepts as well as contemporary tools that enable communication, collaboration and networking. These tools include blogs, microblogs, podcasts, social media, and more.
Designing interactive media content involves a combination of visual, writing, programming, and information design skills, as well as understanding evaluation and collaboration techniques. This course emphasizes gaining experience using these concepts and skills, which are essential for those intending to develop, manage, or in general analyze interactive media content. Ultimately, you will produce an example of your work for your portfolio.
The main goal of this course is to learn essential strategies for evaluating and creating interactive media content. You’ll contribute several short assignments to the class, and design, prototype, and revise a functional Web site. Because developing and designing media is an intensely collaborative as well as a technical process, you will need to work closely with and learn from your fellow students in this course.
Class Information
Tues-Thurs 10:00-11:15am
Greenspun Hall 1126
Twitter: @intmediadesign
Instructor:
Michael Wilder
Michael Wilder
Phone: (702) 879-8454
E-mail:
m1ch43lw1ld3r@gmail.com (preferred)
michael.wilder@unlv.edu (UNLV)
Faculty Web site: http://faculty.unlv.edu/wilderm/
Blog: http://vegas-times.com/blogs/michael/
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