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MIT OpenCourseWare
Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media
Art: PSM V21 D055 The brewster stereoscope 1849, 1882 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Judith Donath
- Term
- Spring 2008
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 12 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare MAS.961 Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media, Spring 2008, Prof. Judith Donath — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Legibility and abstraction How to design environments that go beyond copying the everyday physical world, yet remain intuitively comprehensible
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Lecture 3: Design review: interaction space; depicting conversation Maps of conversations can show many things: who participated? What was their role? How did the topic evolve? And these maps can themselves be landscapes, the context for future discussions
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Lecture 4: Visualizing time and history The 4th dimension: clocks, calendars and other ways of marking time
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Lecture 5: Design review: personal history; varieties of portraiture Portraits depict appearance, but they have also be made of movements, musical compositions, shopping lists, etc. Introduction to the range and art of portraiture
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Lecture 6: Data portraits / depicting people What are the salient features about a person that makes them recognizable, as an individual or as a social type.
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Lecture 7: Design review: data portrait
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Lecture 8: Augmented realities: visible projections and invisible annotations Lozano-Hemmer; Naimark; Oursler; politics of public space augmentation
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Lecture 9: Final project proposals Discussion of proposals
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Lecture 10: Supertraces Surveillance and transparency
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Lecture 11: Final presentations
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Judith Donath, MAS.961 Special Topics: Designing Sociable Media, Spring 2008.
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