StoryTelling for New Media

Thursday will be the first day for the presentation of projects. Everyone should come to class prepared to present and discuss his or her creative or critical project. This will give you a chance to obtain feedback on your work before its final iteration.
Note: Attendance Thursday is mandatory, unless you clear it with me ahead [...]

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For Thursday you should read Part One of Lolita up to Chp. 24 (pg 103 in my version). Note that there is a rather long introduction by Alfred Appel, you do not need to read this.
Also you should visit the class wiki and set up a pbwiki profile. Once you have the profile set up, [...]

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Today the first episode of Season Two of KateModern was released. This means that some of the links below might not work. If you are having trouble accessing season one, click here, which should take you to the last video of season one hosted on the lg15 site, you will have to navigate from the [...]

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This is the first post for ATEC 4346-StoryTelling for New Media. You can find course information below, or download syllabus.
Course Info:
With the rise of digital literacy, what was once marginal “geek” culture has come to dominate the social landscape. While storytelling used to take place via a relatively narrow set of channels, born digital narratives [...]

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The fall semester is now over, if you are looking for information on this class you can look thru the archives from August 2007-November 2007. The syllabus from this semester is also available for download.

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For Tuesday your primary homework is to use and become familiar with Twitter. (See below for some additional Twitter info, but post (tweet) at least 10 times over the weekend.) You should also read How Twittering Creates a Social Sixth Sense Clive Thompson, from Wired and Friends Swap Twitters and Frustration&Wall Street Journal. These [...]

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There will be no class on Thursday (Oct. 11), on Tuesday I will hand out a revised syllabus, and we can talk about scheduling a make-up class if needed.
For Tuesday read:
<free culture>” Lawrence Lessig, (online presentation)
A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t its Copyright? Mark Helprin
Against Perpetual Copyright (Wiki Response to Helprin)
Pachbel Rant(short video)
You should also [...]

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You readings are short (should only take 30-45 minutes), and you do not need to post to your blog (unless of course you are behind in posts). Reminder midterms are do Monday 10:00 AM my office (ATEC 1.502).
The Long Tail” Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine
The Long Tail Blog, Chris Anderson

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For an example of Wikipedia at its best visit the rapidly changing article on the Burmese Protests. The military juanta in has a long record of violent response to uprisings. With traditional media often ignoring, or not having access to information in Burma the power of the Smart Mob has taken over.

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As a demonstration of the Panopticon and related to the Smart Mobs assignment for next week, consider the following: A professor at Pitzer now teaches a class on and thru YouTube. In other words all of the assignments, class meetings, etc are posted for all to see. The class page can be found here on [...]

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