Democracy, Governance, and the Digital Network

Note: There is no formal class meeting on this Tuesday, instead you have time to work on the assignment for Thursday. (This doesn’t mean that you might not want to come to class, and use this as lab time to work, since it is already carved out of your day.) Thursday you will be presenting [...]

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For Thursday we will finish up some of the terms from Tuesday’s article (Aarseth), but spend most of the time discussing Douglas and Hargadon, “The Pleasures of Immersion and Interaction,” make sure you read both the article, and the response (the article is on the top part of the page the response is below the [...]

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On Tuesday we will be discussing Espen Aarseth’s “Nonlinearity and Literary Theory.” You can get yourself a copy of this essay via eReserve. (If you have forgotten the password email me or one of your classmates.) This is a critical essay, i.e. not a piece of fiction, as such it will probably take you longer [...]

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We will continue looking at print short stories. This time read Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” and Ellison, “The Deathbird,” both of these were passed out during class. If you need a copy (i.e. you were not in class) stop by my office. If I am not there I will leave extras outside my [...]

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On Tuesday we will be reading two short stories. The first, Murders in the Rue Morgue, is a famous piece of detective fiction by Edgar Allen Poe. Do yourself a favor and don’t read anything about this story elsewhere prior to reading the story, that way you can avoid any spoilers. Second read A Medieval [...]

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We will begin our examination of digital narratives by looking at one of the more “successful” (at least in terms of viewers) examples, KateModern. At this point there have been two full seasons of KateModern, which is far too many hours worth of footage for our class. Instead begin by watching Episode One and then [...]

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And so begins another semester . . .For Spring ’09 I will be teaching ATEC 4346. I will often refer to this class as Digital StoryTelling, or Digital Narrative, two terms I prefer, but since I don’t write the catalog copy the official name will have to be “Storytelling for New Media.” You can download [...]

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