https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ 2024-11-07T02:46:46-0500 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/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 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/gould?rev=1609573171&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 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 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 2024-04-19T19:25:41-0500 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 2023-06-23T17:35:48-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/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 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/wiki/syntax?rev=1609573171&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 the 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… text/html 2024-08-16T10:22:12-0500 Anonymous ([email protected]) https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/academic_honesty?rev=1723818132&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…