https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-08-14T20:39:49+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2025-02-03T04:03:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/peer_review?rev=1738555425&do=diff Peer review Providing constructive feedback for peers is a powerful art. Doing it well means giving the gift of a new perspective to someone else, and the karmic rewards are sure to come back to you. Be sure to articulate both the strengths and weaknesses of a draft. It can also be very helpful to mirror back to the author what you understand their primary point and purpose to be. Be sure to refer to the text of the assignment to ensure that your recommendations are aligned with the assigned … text/html 2024-11-14T18:34:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/digital_culture_and_politics?rev=1731609268&do=diff Digital Culture and Politics MDST 3002 Examines issues at the intersection of digital media, culture and politics, such as regulation and network architecture, piracy and hacking, and grassroots activism. Engage with a range of theories about cultural politics, democracy, liberalism and neo-liberalism in relation to digital information and communication technologies. text/html 2025-02-22T17:38:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/introduction_to_social_media?rev=1740245937&do=diff Introduction to Social Media MDST 1002 This course introduces students to concepts for better understanding online social media---the technology and infrastructures that allow social networks to flourish, and the cultures that grow up through and around them. It explores how social media enables community, how it assembles and empowers agents of change, and how design informs individual and group behavior. text/html 2021-10-08T03:39:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/connected_media_practices?rev=1633664377&do=diff Connected Media Practices MDST 5001 What are the economies that underlie our connections? This course will undertake a journey into the practice and theory of media entrepreneurship, introducing the dominant norms of entrepreneurial cultures, together with avenues for critique and transformation. By turning a critical eye to the networks around us today, we will learn to design tools and economies for networks to come. text/html 2019-11-12T20:45:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/gould?rev=1573591550&do=diff In the mid-forties, on the fourth floor of the American Museum of Natural History, there stood the remains of a tyrannosaurus. Towering above hordes of awestruck kids, this pile of bones inspired two of the best-known careers in twentieth-century science text/html 2026-08-13T22:56:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/future_histories_of_technology?rev=1786661766&do=diff Future Histories of Technology MDST 2046 This course explores how visions of the future have shaped the development of technology, and how technologies shape visions of the future in turn. It reveals how claims over the future organize power relations and constrain imaginations. Coursework takes the form of a creative workshop, where students make original multimedia artifacts and engage in constructive critique with one another. text/html 2026-07-21T23:51:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/disruptive_entrepreneurship?rev=1784677907&do=diff Disruptive Entrepreneurship MDST 2011 Disruption has become a hallowed achievement in contemporary business culture. What, exactly, do entrepreneurs, investors, and Internet evangelists mean by the word? What have been the great disruptions of our time, and who wound up disrupted? text/html 2026-01-30T22:50:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/wiki:dokuwiki?rev=1769813421&do=diff DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. 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