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Loyola University Chicago, Fall Semester 2019
MM_COMP101: Section A - MWF 10:00-11:00 am; Crown Center, Rm. 114
Instructor: Ms. Taylor-Cate Brown
Email: tbrown18@luc.edu
Office: RM 019 - Cudahy Library
Office Hours: M,TUE - 11:00 am-2:00 pm, and by appointment
MultiModal COMP 101 aims to help students build on their existing digital and language literacy to prepare them to participate in the many discourses that make up their lives. In taking this course, students will gain exposure to a number of computational methods, workflows, and concepts in addition to working through any aversions they have to the writing process as they compose, share, and reflect on class assignments and readings in our public GitHub repository. By engaging with the course theme, Social Protest in Viral Networks, through two acclaimed texts, students will develop a greater awareness of the power structures that govern their digital and IRL communities, all the while cultivating a digital identity in a safe-guarded, structured forum that facilitates positive and meaningful peer-review. Follow us as we explore what it means to be a member of a community in flux—a critical netizen.
Purchase Link:
Mina, An Xiao. Memes to Movements: How the World's Most Viral Media is Changing Social Protest and Power. Penguin Random House, 2019.
Also Available on Amazon in the Following Formats: Hardcover, Audio Book, and Kindle eBook.
Purchase Link:
Tufekci, Zeynep. Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest. Yale University Press, 2018.
Also Available as an Open Access Document Online