https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ 2024-11-07T00:49:06-0500 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/communication_policy?rev=1609573171&do=diff Communication Policy Because of my unpredictable schedule, I do not keep regular office hours. However, I strongly encourage students to find times to meet with me in person by appointment (or by phone if you are studying remotely). To make an appointment, or to ask brief clarifying questions, please email me at [email protected]. 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/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 2024-10-28T16:17:20-0500 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 2024-04-23T18:40:00-0500 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 2023-12-03T10:17:18-0500 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 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 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 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/wiki/dokuwiki?rev=1609573171&do=diff DokuWiki wiki:dokuwiki DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files