21W.784 Becoming Digital: Writing about Media Change, Fall 2009
Author(s)
Miller, Ben
Alternative Title
Becoming Digital: Writing about Media Change
Date Issued
December 2009
Abstract
"Becoming Digital" traces the change in practice, theory and possibility as mechanical and chemical media are augmented or supplanted by digital media. These changes will be grounded in a semester length study of "reports from the front." These reports, found and introduced by students throughout the semester, are the material produced by and about soldiers and civilians on the battlefield from the introduction of wet photography during the Crimean and Civil Wars to contemporary digital content posted daily to Web 2.0 sites from areas such as Iraq and Afghanistan and possibly even the games and simulations they've inspired. Students will work through the ethical, aesthetic, technical and cultural problems raised by the primary content and secondary readings in three papers, a group project written with Inform 7, a presentation, and frequent discussion.
Subjects
Writing
culture
digital
computer
technology
daily lives
communicate
business
information
entertain
media
values
ethical
aesthetic
images
texts
sounds
people
property
history
identity
movies
games
music
digital channels
content outline
digital content
channels
digital media options
digital influence
digital marketers
digital destinations
behavioral targeting
digital marketing
digital platform
digital games
mobile marketing
smart agents
generating awareness.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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