https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ 2024-11-07T02:25:56-0500 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/global_media_literacy?rev=1609573171&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 2023-11-11T16:29:32-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/disruptive_entrepreneurship?rev=1699738172&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 2021-10-07T23:39:37-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/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 2021-10-04T00:19:19-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/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 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/hacker_culture_s2018?rev=1609573171&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 2024-10-28T16:17:20-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/internships?rev=1730146640&do=diff Internships This page provides a general outline of what I expect for a successful student internship that I supervise at CU Boulder. The details will be worked out on a case-by-case basis. Learning objectives * Identify a critical, scholarly perspective that can inform a work experience text/html 2024-10-01T13:48:07-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/digital_culture_and_politics?rev=1727804887&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 2024-04-19T19:25:41-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/media_activism?rev=1713569141&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 2021-10-07T23:38:35-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/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 2023-11-26T23:51:03-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/whitepaper?rev=1701060663&do=diff Whitepaper A whitepaper is a kind of document little-used in academia but much more common in business and policy contexts. It is a semi-formal, persuasive document that outlines and analyzes a project or proposed course of action, generally intended for limited circulation among readers directly involved in the process at hand. There's some interesting text/html 2024-04-23T18:40:00-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/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?