https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-09-18T01:09:31+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2018-05-03T18:50:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/hacker_culture_s2018?rev=1525373416&do=diff Hacker Culture MDST 2012 it seems to me sometimes I've entered some inverted zone, some mirror world where the dorkiest shit in the world is completely dominant. The world has dorkified itself.---Mercer in Dave Eggers, The Circle (2013) What is this course about? text/html 2024-04-23T22:40:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/hacker_culture?rev=1713912000&do=diff Hacker Culture MDST 2012 it seems to me sometimes I've entered some inverted zone, some mirror world where the dorkiest shit in the world is completely dominant. The world has dorkified itself.---Mercer in Dave Eggers, The Circle (2013) What is this course about? text/html 2017-10-14T15:34:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/global_media_literacy?rev=1507995256&do=diff Global Media Literacy Take a collaborative tour of the global media environment. This course unveils the hidden ways in which our media lives intersect with people an economies in distant places. Understand the ways in which politics, cultures, business models, and conflicts shape the media we encounter—and those we don't. text/html 2017-01-12T18:23:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/religion_in_american_life?rev=1484245420&do=diff Religion in American Life: Discovering the Past, Encountering the Present What this class is about Religion is omnipresent, so to speak, and it influences our society in immense ways. Yet we are often taught not to think, discuss, or even notice it. This course will teach the opposite lesson. Together we will learn about the power, diversity, and creativity of religion in the history of the United States of America. We will study text/html 2021-10-08T03:38:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/engagement_with_assigned_sources?rev=1633664315&do=diff Engagement with assigned sources My courses frequently require engagement with assigned sources. Let me explain what that means in more depth than the syllabus allows. The purpose is to evaluate students' comprehension with the texts and other media assigned in the course syllabus. Think of it as an open-book quiz. I do this so that more artificial evaluations like exams are not necessary. But in order for this purpose to be achieved, I want to see that you can do the following: 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 2026-01-09T20:17:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/media_activism?rev=1767989847&do=diff Media Activism and Public Engagement MDST 5002 Depending on whom you ask, media-powered activism can sound like either a silver bullet or a lost cause. It's often both at the same time and more in between. Through examining the strategies and tactics of movements, past and present, we'll discover how media can shape social change and how we can become more savvy media practitioners ourselves. text/html 2017-10-14T15:35:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/media_and_the_public?rev=1507995357&do=diff Media and the Public In this class, we will learn about what it means to be a mediated public by becoming one and reflecting on our practice. As we discuss critical and primary readings on media, democracy, and the public sphere, the class will undergo a process together. We will cultivate our own public sphere, setting rules and adjusting them as we go. The midterm and final projects are short exercises in established genres of media intervention. text/html 2024-01-30T04:09:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/hypothesis?rev=1706587778&do=diff Hypothesis Several of my courses require the use of the Hypothesis annotation platform. Hypothes.is is an open source, non-profit project designed to develop an open protocol for annotation across the web. It is also specifically focused on supporting academic use. However, because it is an attempt to simulate a layer of the web that doesn't otherwise exist, the technical implementation is less than seamless. I am in touch with the Hypothesis team, and we'll be sharing the results of our experi…