https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-08-17T20:07:40+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2026-07-21T22:48:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/wiki:syntax?rev=1784674098&do=diff Formatting Syntax DokuWiki supports some simple markup language, which tries to make the datafiles to be as readable as possible. This page contains all possible syntax you may use when editing the pages. Simply have a look at the source of this page by pressing 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 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 2026-01-30T22:50:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/wiki:welcome?rev=1769813421&do=diff Welcome to your new DokuWiki Congratulations, your wiki is now up and running. Here are a few more tips to get you started. Enjoy your work with DokuWiki, -- the developers Create your first pages Your wiki needs to have a start page. As long as it doesn't exist, this link will be red: text/html 2021-10-04T04:19:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/citation_standards?rev=1633321159&do=diff Citation standards Appropriate citations are a highly contextual matter. There is no one style of citation that is appropriate for every case. Rather than stipulate a particular citation style for all times and places, I encourage students to learn to determine for themselves what standards they should use in a given context. By the end of one's education, one should be familiar with a variety of citation techniques. 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 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 2026-06-30T19:58:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/academic_honesty?rev=1782849519&do=diff Academic honesty I expect that all my students adhere to an ethic of academic honesty: a practice of actively embracing the task of creating original work and crediting the contributions of others. The university defines academic dishonesty as cheating, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration, falsifying academic records, and any act designed to avoid participating honestly in the learning process. Academic dishonesty also includes, but is not limited to, providing false or misleading informati… 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 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 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 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. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator's favorite. Built in text/html 2016-09-23T19:37:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/technology_requirements?rev=1474659425&do=diff Technology Requirements For online courses, you need a consistent, high-speed Internet connection to view the lecture videos and the other content. For accessing D2L, we recommend Mozilla Firefox with Java and cookies enabled. I use an Ubuntu Linux operating system and a variety of community-developed, open-source software. Therefore I prefer that coursework be turned in using open formats such as .txt, .md, .odt, .odp, .png, or .svg. I can also accept .pdf, .docx, .pptx, and .rtf, though be a… 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.