Networked Media Sampler

Thematic Project Description

(subtitle: DIY NETWORK TOPOLOGIES & PROTOCOLS)

Through invited guests, students are given a critical at the limitations of contemporary idea of the "Web", social media nad the so called "Open Web" -- Through their work, students will build a working alternative network. Through incremental assignments students will build "nodes" which in some way respond to a specific problem posed by guests / tutors.

?ILLUSTRATION?

(AVOIDING: Pipeline for pipelines sake... pipe youtube into sound into a blog, woo!)

Ex: HTTP degrades when number of downloaders increases. Response: Bittorrent as a protocol (Students read Bram .. original Bittorrent protocol document.

Documentation

This section might need to link to standard practices within the Networked Media handbook

Next to following generic information, please add special requirements if necessary, or if the default requirements do not apply to your thematic project.

Each participant is supposed to create a wiki page to document the following aspects:

• Outcomes of weekly assignments
• Project plan and concept
• Annotated bibliography
• Final project and essay

Required readings and audiovisuals

HTTP

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html

BitTorrent - Protocol

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29
• http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0003.html

Douglas Rushkoff: The next net

• http://shareable.net/blog/the-next-net

Guests

TO BE DETERMINED

Planning

PLANNING to come.