Media Literacies and Composition

Catalog description

When we integrate computational systems into the core of our cultural and social practices, we reinvent how we tell stories. The roles of creators, critics and audiences are blurring at the same time that digital tools allow us to infinitely reproduce and remix narratives, radically changing what we mean by the 'work' or 'text.' These new media platforms empower us to create, share and respond to cultural narratives that defy traditional notions of how stories operate, demanding new literacies. Explores our powers and responsibilities as readers, writers and creators of new cultural languages, including new forms such as games, digital video, electronic literature and social media. Students study relevant media narratives and cultural ecosystems from the 20th and 21st centuries, acquiring a set of literacies that they hone through practices of authorship, critique and collaboration, culminating in the presentation of their own digital media narratives.