| Introduction to Digital Media (Winter 2010)
Media beyond the horizon of cinema and television present unique problems of definition and analysis. Taking the digital - information represented as discrete values - as a reasonable approximation of the mechanics and fantasies of computation, course surveys theoretical approaches to code, networks, and cyberculture. Taking familiar formations like web sites and video games as objects by which to learn how thinkers have understood and envisioned emerging media from the mid-20th century to the present. Students to develop own methodological tools for becoming more critical users of digital media. |
| Television on the Internet (Spring 2007)
Beginning from theoretical questions about the structure of media texts and their production, distribution, reception, and regulation, this course analyzes how the collision of broadcast and broadband is reshaping the media landscape. We'll explore contemporary intersections of TV and the internet, including web-based TV shows or tie-ins, political and entertainment blogging, internet fan culture, corporate web portals, and commercial and peer-to-peer online delivery. |
| Teaching Assitanceships | Fall 2006: Television Studies |
Spring 2006: Cinema and Stardom | |
| projects | Fall 2005: Intro to Digital Media |
| lecture | Spring 2005: Intro to the Study of Television |
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Fall 2004: Intro to Modern Culture and Media |
