CMN 622 (01) - Digital Rhetoric
Digital Rhetoric
Term: Fall 2024 - Full Term (08/26/2024 - 12/09/2024)
Grade Mode: Letter Grading
CRN: 16614
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | HORT 110 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | HORT 110 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 12:40pm - 2:00pm | HORT 110 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 2:10pm - 3:30pm | HORT 115 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | TR | 5:10pm - 6:30pm | HS 344 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 12:40pm - 2:00pm | HORT 304 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | W | 3:40pm - 5:00pm | HS 105 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | W | 3:40pm - 5:00pm | HS 105 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | TR | 9:40am - 11:00am | HORT 110 |
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | TR | 11:10am - 12:30pm | HORT 215 |
Course Description: How many YouTube videos have you watched today? How about videos on Instagram or TikTok? What about livestreams on platforms like Twitch or Facebook? Digital video, much of it amateur or semi-professional, has come to dominate social media and the internet—accounting for everything from entertainment to political activism. YouTube, founded in 2005, began the transformation of the primarily text and image-based internet to a more video heavy experience. This class is designed around studying the history and cultural impact of YouTube, as well as social media-based video more generally. We’ll study the history of YouTube, and immerse ourselves the present culture, forms, and genres of YouTube. We’ll look at the phenomenon of ‘YouTube stars’ and the emergence of influencer culture on the platform. We’ll study the growing body of scholarship andpopular commentary and criticism of YouTube and related platforms. We’ll look at the debates around free speech and concerns over political extremism and conspiracy theories. YouTube will be our focal point through which we will examine many of the larger topics related to video-based social media platforms: entertainment, identity, journalism, education, cultural production, fandom, politics, community, marketing, and public discourse. In addition to the expected components of a writing intensive class, students will also have the opportunity to use the modality of video to enhance their scholarship: curating, remixing, and even creating original critical video pieces.
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8/26/2024 | 12/9/2024 | MW | 5:10pm - 6:30pm | HORT 115 |
Course Title: Podcasting - Podcasting has exploded in popularity over the past few years. As a means of self expression, sharing information, instruction, marketing, or expressing opinions, podcasting at its best and most effective is not just a casually produced audio report on an issue, or high points from an interview. Creating an engaging, substantive podcast provides and
opportunity to inform and express on a high level, and deliver a finished product in a relatively short period of time. We will listen to the work of many of the top podcasters, who spend hours carefully constructing their episodes. We will learn and use many of the same methods of writing, storytelling, speaking, audio production and post production traditionally used in podcasts today. Each student will choose from myriad topics and develop a series on a chosen topic. There will be a requirement of a minimum of one podcast episode every other week. Over the course of the semester, students will work at developing and enhancing their ability to produce sophisticated content which includes strong narrative communication.