https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-09-22T22:56:53+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2015-12-11T00:22:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/syllabus_of_questions?rev=1449793353&do=diff A Syllabus of Questions Instructor * Who is in charge here, and why? * What do we need to know about the instructor? * What is the instructor's role in the course? Overview * What did I think I was signing up for? * Why did I sign up for this course? text/html 2025-01-31T20:02:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/agreements?rev=1738353745&do=diff Agreements * We will work together to foster a respectful, mature, convivial community based on discussion, accommodation, and attention. * When problems arise, we will seek to address them collaboratively—first through dialogue, then through revision of these agreements, then through recourse to the instructor or administrators. text/html 2026-08-21T16:36:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/future_histories_of_technology?rev=1787330194&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 2026-04-30T04:05:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/graduate_advising?rev=1777521945&do=diff Graduate advising I see graduate advising as an opportunity to build a creative, collaborative relationship. To ensure it works well, it's important that we have some basic agreements in place. I expect that the students I advise: * Are familiar with and continually refer to the relevant program handbook and related policies text/html 2026-04-30T03:54:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/resources?rev=1777521287&do=diff Resources * Academic honesty * Agreements * Campus resources * Class etiquette * Citation standards * Email etiquette * Engagement with assigned sources * Graduate advising * Hypothesis * Peer review * Scholarly sources * Screen devices * Syllabus of questions * Technology requirements * University policies * Whitepaper 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 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.