Lec: T9-11am, Lab: R10am, (E15-335)
In this course we examine the disruptions in the TV industry by asking the questions “how are new technologies changing the way television fits into society” by positioning television as the creator of communities: people, devices and stories. The course will first take a systemic look at the various ways television was historically produced and socialized and how the Internet and the mobile network are impacting the notion of TV itself. TV is not a device or a technology but provides a common experience.
The class will cover the building blocks of the new more social television of the future and invite subject experts for lectures on specific topics. There will be a particular emphasis on those new technologies that place television at the center of one’s community. In addition new paradigms for content and program acquisition and generation will be explored.
The classwork for the course is team and project focused, culminating in each team developing a new socialized TV application. The projects allow the teams to explore the multiple facets of TV innovation from video technology challenges, to user interfaces, to content consumption and to business cases.