https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ 2024-11-07T03:40:09-0500 https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/ https://www.lelandquarterly.com/school/_media/favicon.ico 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 2023-12-03T10:17:18-0500 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 2021-01-02T02:39:31-0500 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 2024-10-01T13:48:07-0500 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 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 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/syllabus_of_questions?rev=1609573171&do=diff A Syllabus of Questions Instructor * Who is in charge here, and why? * What do we need to know about the instructor? * What is the instructor's role in the course? Overview * What did I think I was signing up for? * Why did I sign up for this course? 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.