E1 05/27-07/03 08611 ONLINE ASYNCRONOUS CHAMBERS
R1 07/07-08/13 00953 ONLINE ASYNCRONOUS CHAMBERS
In this course, students explore media literacy through the analysis and creation of myriad forms of digital media. The focus of this course is twofold: to develop critical thinking skills around narrative within a digital context and to create ‘original' multimedia projects, dissolving the divide between fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essay, journalism, and personal narrative. We investigate if it’s possible to be ‘original’ in 2023 and whether or not it’s useful to designate the media we consume and/or produce as singularly ‘fictional’ or ‘nonfictional’ (spoiler alert: it’s probably … not, and that’s actually quite fun).
Students will experience a vast array of written, auditory, and filmic texts as burgeoning theorists and artists. Multimedia projects in this course emphasize digital media literacy by way of the curation of Twitter Journals, sound art, narrative interviews, podcasts, short films, and other forms of digital ephemera. They will further study how writers, sound artists, filmmakers, and content creators harness the power of digital media to produce narratives relevant for our complex world and to gain further insight on the impact digital communication and storytelling possess in our individual lives and for the digital global village in which we reside.