What is the world coming to? Check out the article below and try not to wince too much.
http://gizmodo.com/5477595/dramatic-chipmunk-phd-colleges-accepting-youtube-videos-as-part-of-application
~JV
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Week 1. 1/14. Introduction to the Course
Week 2. 1/21. : Thinking about
Media Technology
READ: Joshua Meyrowitz, “Images of Media”
Henry Jenkins, “Confronting
the Challenges of Participatory Culture”
Week 3. 1/28. Foundations in Medium Studies READ: Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message” Joshua Meyrowitz, “Canonic Anti-Text”
Week 4. 2/4 Comics as Medium
READ: Scott McCloud, Understanding
Comics excerpt.
Matt Madden, Exercises in
Style
Greg Smith, “Shaping the Maxx”
Week 5. 2/11 Remix Culture READ: Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture, Introduction, Chapters 1 & 4 Jonathan Lethem, “The Ecstasy of Influence”
Week 6. 2/18: YouTube and Online Video
READ: Burgess & Green, YouTube excerpt.
Week 7. 2/25 YouTube and Online Video READ: Burgess & Green, YouTube excerpt.
Week 8. 3/4 MIDTERM EXAM
Week 9. 3/11 Videogames
READ: Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games,
Week 10. 3/25 Videogames READ: Henry Jenkins, “Games, The New
Lively Art”, Jane McGonigal, "Why I Love Bees"Spring Break 3/15-3/19
Week 11. 4/1 Virtual Worlds READ: Cory Ondrejka, “Education Unleashed: Participatory Culture, Education, and Innovation in Second Life” Wikipedia article on Second Life
Week 12. 4/8: Media Convergence READ: Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture, remainder of book
Week 13. 4/15: Social Software
READ: danah boyd & Nicole Ellison, “Social Network
Sites; danah boyd, Why Youth Love Social Network Sites; Nancy Scola “
I like the idea for a couple reasons. First, Why not give people a chance to be more then just a name on a paper? As communication students, I think we've all hear that our major will get a few odd looks but we will kill at the interview. This is just a new medium to do that in. Also, we've heard of employers checking facebook, probation officers checking myspace to see if the guilty are following the program, the Navy uses the pictures and posts of friends and family to simulate torture while training. Why not in the world of "I'm out there" would we expect colleges to be any different?
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