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21W.780 Communicating in Technical Organizations, Spring 2005
(2005-06)
This course has two parallel aims: To improve student writing about technical subject matters, including forms of writing commonly employed in technical organizations, and Critically to examine the nature of technologica ...
CMS.S60 / CMS.S96 Technopanics: Moral Panics about Technology, Spring 2013
(2013-06)
Hacking and trolling; mass murders and bullying. What do these have in common? One theory holds that these are all "deviant" social behaviors, occurring both online and off, which have purportedly been brought ...
CMS.998 / CMS.600 Videogame Theory and Analysis, Fall 2006
(2006-12)
This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary study of commercial videogames as texts, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. Students play and analyze videogames ...
21W.765J / 21L.489J / CMS.845J Interactive and Non-Linear Narrative: Theory and Practice, Spring 2006
(2006-06)
This course covers techniques of creating narratives that take advantage of the flexibility of form offered by the computer. The course studies the structural properties of book-based narratives that experiment with ...
21W.784 Becoming Digital: Writing about Media Change, Fall 2009
(2009-12)
"Becoming Digital" traces the change in practice, theory and possibility as mechanical and chemical media are augmented or supplanted by digital media. These changes will be grounded in a semester length study ...
CMS.600 / CMS.998 Videogame Theory and Analysis, Fall 2007
(2007-12)
This course will serve as an introduction to the interdisciplinary academic study of videogames, examining their cultural, educational, and social functions in contemporary settings. By playing, analyzing, and reading and ...
21W.730-4 Expository Writing: Analyzing Mass Media, Spring 2001
(2001-06)
This course focuses on developing and refining the skills that will you need to express your voice more effectively as an academic writer. As a focus for our writing this semester, this course explores what it means to ...