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Machines are an extension of their inventor-creators…
~Amiri Baraka |
This course is about DIGITAL JUSTICE: the justice issue that moves you most right here and right now, the ways the issue lives and moves people via digital tools, and the digital footprint that you yourself will leave behind for that movement.
We move away from “writing a paper” TO “designing pages.” For many of you, this move away from “the paper” is work that you regularly do anyway: you maintain a tumblr page, you are on facebook, you tweet, you post to instagram or pinterest, you post to your blog, you have a vine. You are already a digital writer with an audience; you are already a designer. The focus on digital rhetorics in this class means that we will interrogate all of that kind of writing and designing even more. We will continually ask ourselves:
These are questions that you will answer based on the writing/designing that you do in this class, not abstract feelings and opinions about the internet and technology. It’s like Janie tells her best friend in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God: “ya gotta go there to know there.”
Though new technologies will drive the focus of this class, remember that technology can’t do ev’rythang. Technology does not RUN YOU! You run it! It is created and sustained by us to better fulfill some of our needs and goals. So, no, the technologies that we work with in this class won’t be able to capture all of the depth of our image, sound, thought, vision, and desire, but we can certainly work to bring it a little closer to us!
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