Early History of New Media as Disruptive Agent in the Music Industry

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Our first few classes have involved a little time travel to see just how significant were some of the shifts facilitated (or caused) by New Media. We have explored artifacts, (including memes and viral videos,) as a way to see how the elements of remediation, meta-generativity, and agency have shaped our 21st-century media landscape.

Students will complete viewing Michael Wesch's lecture "An Anthropological Look at YouTube" and will post their reflections, reactions, and take-aways.

Additionally, student will explicate an assigned song from a playlist - researching the history of the song, examining the lyrics, and deriving an interpretation of how the song speaks about the state (or history) of the Music Industry. Students will post their reflections, along with lyrics, links, or video in their blogs.

(Cheat: I did one of the songs a couple years ago - you can get the idea of what I'm looking for here.)

 

 SNEAK PEEK: What Google knows about you

 

Writing in a Whole New Way (Electronic Writing)

 Students will look at the blog responses from Week 1 (Reading in a Whole New Way, Reading on Screens, letter-writing exercise) and will "re-write" the blogs to take advantage of all the affordances of electronic writing in the digital blog environment. Here are some of the ways students will enhance their blog entries.

Using Hypertext Links: For example, instead of just saying, "I read the article Reading in a Whole New Way," they would say, "I read the article
Reading in a Whole New Way," so that the actual article opens in a new window.

Embedding Images: students will enhance their blog entries with appropriate imagery. For example, in referring to the "Reading on Screen" article, the might accompany their comments with a picture like the one on the left.

Embedding video: students will embed video to enrich their blog entries. For example, when referring to the Sullivan Ballou letter we read in class, they could embed a video from You Tube like the one at the bottom of this post.

Students will use other creative enhancements as well - and will inspire and collaborate and do a great "multi-modal" blog entry!

Welcome to CM410: Digital Communication 1!

This is the Instructor's Blog - or as we will call it, the Class Blog. You will check here for reminders of assignments, summary instructions, and other feedback from the Professor. This page will also feature links to your colleagues in this section (and to colleagues who have gone on before you.)

You could think of this as a "hub" for our class bloggers, but in reality, each of your own sites will, in pretty short order, be "hubs" of their own, connecting with your colleagues.

The main site for resources will be our Canvas Course which will grow as the term progresses.

Bookmark this blog site, explore the Canvas course site, and you will be off and running!

Now let's get this show on the road... 

FIRST ASSIGNMENT: Reading on Screens!

For our first reading/thinking/blogging assignment, students will post their thoughts and reflections on two articles, as well as the class experience writing a letter with pen and paper:

1. Everything Science Knows About Reading on Screens by Annie Sneed
2. Reading in a Whole New Way by Kevin Kelly

Students will experiment with a few interactive digital artifacts as they explore the affordances new media brings to composition and reception of electronic "texts."

Check the Blog List to the right to see their posts!

All the Answers to the Final Exam are here!

 the Final Exam are here!