KateModern = Homework?
At the University of Texas at Dallas, the Storytelling For New Media class has been assigned to watch the first 35 episodes of KateModern as homework.
About the course: “With the rise of digital literacy, what was once marginal “geek” culture has come to dominate the social landscape. While storytelling used to take place via a relatively narrow set of channels, born digital narratives are now opening up new structural possibilities (hypertext, blog fiction, YouTube shows, digital games). Criticism has ranged from outright dismissal (“nothing has changed”) to hyperbolic (“nothing will ever be the same”). Regardless of where one takes up position along this spectrum, the now ubiquitous potential of the digital text raises two crucial questions: What/How much changes in the digital text? And perhaps more importantly, how does this move to the digital text affect us as readers? In class we will ask these questions (along with a host of others) of a variety of narrative forms. In order to adequately address these issues, we will read creative works from a variety of genres (novels, hypertext, digital games, web fiction), while supplementing our approach through the reading of critical texts. Students will produce critical and creative work for class.”
January 9th, 2008 at 11:23 am
Wow, I wish I could watch KM for homework
January 9th, 2008 at 11:44 am
i did my undergrad dissertation on this focusing on lg15 and i’m doing a more indepth srudy as my Master’s dissertation!!! how cool is that!!!! thanks for the details… see lg15/katemodern is educational!!!!
January 9th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Thats pretty impressive!
January 9th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Well… I’m a french teacher, in Communication and “Internet culture”. Since 2006, I always start the semester by showing two or three episodes of LG15 (that i’ve subtitled in french, of course…) to my student. And we all analyse the phenomenon…
LG15 is definitely educational…
January 9th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
oh, i so hope that tampax ad was in the first 35 episodes.
seriously though, look at that class description. “Regardless of where one takes up position along this spectrum, the now ubiquitous potential of the digital text…”?? you need a Ph.D. to write (bull)shit like this, its a requirement.
“Students will produce critical and creative work for class.”
(p.s. lighting your farts and posting video of that on youtube WILL qualify for course credit)
January 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
oh, i forget to say in my snark, that is is pretty cool that college students have to study KM. there’s no doubt that KM and LG15 are groundbreaking and influential.
January 9th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
this is so cool!
January 11th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Whoa! Another reason for me to go there! I’ll have to see if I can take that this fall!
January 12th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Ha! How ironic, my homework has been seriously neglected at the hand of LG15.
But that is awesome. There’s not a young person alive today who has access to the internet and doesn’t know who Lonelygirl15 is. In my book that qualifies as worth studying.
January 14th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I am the instructor for this class. Actually there are two courses, one graduate seminar and one undergraduate. Both classes are viewing KateModern along with a range of other digital and analog works. The students are part of an Arts and Technology Program, aimed to produce and critique art in the age of computers.
(and no, lighting your farts on fire will not get you credit, unless of course you are able to persuasively argue for “fart lighting” as an important and influential digital art form . . . )
January 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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