https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-09-20T13:56:28+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 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 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?