https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ 2024-11-07T02:43:02-0500 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2023-12-03T10:17:18-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/introduction_to_social_media?rev=1701616638&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 them 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 2024-04-19T19:25:41-0500 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 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? 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 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 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 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/media_and_the_public?rev=1609573171&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 2024-08-16T10:29:58-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/university_policies?rev=1723818598&do=diff University of Colorado Boulder Policies Classroom Behavior Students and faculty are responsible for maintaining an appropriate learning environment in all instructional settings, whether in person, remote, or online. Failure to adhere to such behavioral standards may be subject to discipline. Professional courtesy and sensitivity are especially important with respect to individuals and topics dealing with race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual or… text/html 2024-07-28T00:51:34-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/sidebar?rev=1722142294&do=diff These pages contain course materials developed by Nathan Schneider at the University of Colorado Boulder. They are an open educational resource. Suggestions are welcome. ---------- * Connected Media Practices * Digital Culture and Politics * Disruptive Entrepreneurship * Future Histories of Technology * Global Media Literacy * Hacker Culture * Internships * Introduction to Social Media * Media Activism and Public Engagement * Media and the Public * Religion in American Life * Resou… text/html 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/religion_in_american_life?rev=1609573171&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 2024-10-27T11:40:06-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/future_histories_of_technology?rev=1730043606&do=diff Future Histories of Technology This class explores both literature about future technologies and literary technologies that move across periods, regions, and disciplines. Our cultural and historical approach to future histories of technology will illuminate how race, gender and sexuality, class, and nationality structure seemingly neutral research and development, usage, and innovation. Ultimately, our goal is to see how we’re not passive consumers but active participants in reimagining the pre…