Unit One: Writing Technologies
Tuesday, August 27th
NCTE Position Statement on Multimodal Literacies
Thursday, August 29th
Switched on Pop: “How to Listen to Music in 4 Easy Steps”
Tuesday, September 3rd
Cheryl Ball, et al.: excerpts from Writer/Designer
Thursday, September 5th
Grace Lee: “David Lynch: The Treachery of Language”
Tuesday, September 10th
Thursday, September 12th
Tony Zhou & Taylor Ramos: “Postmortem: Every Frame a Painting” (text + videos)
Tuesday, September 17th
Video: A Cabinet of Curiosity: The Library’s Dead Time
Unit Two: Remixing
Tuesday, September 24th
Thursday, September 26th
Tuesday, October 1st
Thursday, October 3rd
Meg Shields: “Imitation Game: The Difference Between Homage and Plagiarism”
Adam Neely: “Why the Katy Perry/Flame Lawsuit Makes No Sense”
Tuesday, October 8th
Lindsay Ellis: “Product Placement and Fair Use”
Kirby Ferguson: “Everything is a Remix Remastered”
Thursday, October 10th
Nick Statt: “Fortnite Keeps Stealing Dances—and No One Knows if it’s Illegal”
Johanna Blakley: “Lessons from Fashion’s Free Culture”
Tuesday, October 15th
Mark Ronson: “How Sampling Transformed Music”
Switched on Pop: “Lil Nas X: Country at the Crossroads”
Unit Three: Self-Reflection
Tuesday, October 22nd
LifeLock: “What’s Your Digital Identity?”
Lindsay Ellis: “YouTube: Manufacturing Authenticity (For Fun and Profit!)”
Thursday, October 24th
Blake Culley: “What It’s Like Growing Up Transgender and Deaf”
Tuesday, October 29th
Zara Rahman: “The Problem with Emoji Skin Tones that No One Talks About”
Emojipedia: “Google’s Three Gender Emoji Future”
Thursday, October 31st
Lauren Michele Jackson: “We Need to Talk about Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs”
Tuesday, November 5th
Janelle Shane: “This Neural Net Hallucinates Sheep”
Joy Buolamwini: “How I’m Fighting Bias in Algorithms”
Tuesday, November 12th
WAM: Fall 2019 