https://nathanschneider.info/school/ 2026-08-16T13:24:38+00:00 https://nathanschneider.info/school/ https://nathanschneider.info/school/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 2026-01-30T22:50:21+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 2021-10-08T03:38:35+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 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 2019-11-04T22:52:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/scholarly_sources?rev=1572907937&do=diff Scholarly sources When “scholarly sources” or “peer-reviewed articles” are expected for an assignment, this has a specific meaning. It means a certain class of journals or books, generally published through academic presses, that employ certain methodologies to ensure that publications are vetted by the academic community. Such publications have a level of prestige and reliability in academic discourse greater than that of journalism, raw data sets, or other research data. Scholarly articles ar… text/html 2023-06-23T21:35:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nathanschneider.info/school/class_etiquette?rev=1687556148&do=diff Class etiquette People come to my classes with diverse earlier experiences, and that includes different expectations about class behavior. As a result, I hope it is helpful for me to make my own expectations explicit, so that they don't become barriers to anyone's success in the class. For example: 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 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 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. 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…