Networked Media Sampler

(subtitle: DIY NETWORK TOPOLOGIES & PROTOCOLS)

Reading List

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

What kind of input?

INSTEAD: THROUGH invited guests, students are given a critical at the limitations of contemportaty 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.

(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.