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First Day Assignment

dave — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:37:45 +0000

I realize we have yet to meet, but with a limited number of meetings throughout the semester we need to take advantage of every meeting. So in preparation for our first meeting you should read the following articles:

Two Pieces from Democracy and New Media-both are available on eReserve. If you did not get the eReserve password already in an email, email me to find it out.
“The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” (Again email me if you did not receive a link via email.)
John Perry Barlow, “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.”?

See you on Thursday.

Syllabus

dave — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:53:37 +0000

If you are interested you can download a draft of the syllabus. Fair warning, I might change this before the first day of class.

Required Readings

dave — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:34:32 +0000

Here is the list of books we will be reading for the semester. Note that the Morozov text is not yet published but will be available by the time we are scheduled to read it.

-Blown To Bits: Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion by Abelson, Ledeen, and Lewis ISBN 0137135599

-The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society by Jurgen Habermas ISBN 0262581086

-Digital Media and Democracy by Megan Bowler ISBN 0262514893

-Premediation by Richard Grusin ISBN 0230242529

-Connected: The Surprising Power of Out Social Networks and How They Shape our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler ISBN 0316036137

-Networks and States by Milton Mueller ISBN 0262014599

-The Exploit: A Theory of Networks by Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker ISBN 0816650446

-The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov ISBN 1586488740

-Republic 2.0 by Cass Sunstein ISBN 0691143285

-Code 2.0 by Lawrence Lessig ISBN 0465039146

-Access Controlled: The Shaping of Power, Rights, and Rule in Cyberspace by Delbert, Palfrey, Rohozinski, Zittrain, Haraszti ISBN 0262514354

All the books will be available at Off Campus Books.

Other material will be made available on reserve.

Beginning the Semester

dave — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:14:41 +0000

This is the class blog for EMAC 2321: Introduction to Emerging Media and Communication of as some literature has it Introduction to Writing and Research for Emerging Media. Regardless this is the blog. You might want to visit the the main class site as it has all the general info you might be after. This blog will have my own personal thoughts and ramblings about the class, but the wiki is the collaborative space for the class, the hub of the learning community. If you want the syllabus go there, or download the somewhat antiquated and already dated paper version.

Welcome to Storytelling for New Media

dave — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 19:17:57 +0000

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 the syllabus, if you are ambitious, but as we will be mostly dealing with digital texts this site is a much better object to consult with questions about the class. You can also access the class wiki from here. We will cover all of this and more on the first day. But, welcome there are a lot of exciting uses of digital media being used to tell stories in innovative ways. Although we will only begin to scratch the surface of the possibilities, I expect this class to be enjoyable and thought provoking.

Beginning–StoryTelling for New Media

dave — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:54:13 +0000

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 are now opening up new structural possibilities (hypertext, blog fiction, YouTube shows, digital games). Criticism has ranged from outright dismissal (“nothing has changed”) to hyperbolic (“nothing will ever be the same”). Regardless of where one takes up position along this spectrum, the now ubiquitous potential of the digital text raises two crucial questions: What/How much changes in the digital text? And perhaps more importantly, how does this move to the digital text affect us as readers? In class we will ask these questions (along with a host of others) of a variety of narrative forms. In order to adequately address these issues, we will read creative works from a variety of genres (novels, hypertext, digital games, web fiction), while supplementing our approach through the reading of critical texts. Students will produce critical and creative work for class.

So Sad . . .The End of the Semester

dave — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:51:48 +0000

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.