Monthly Archives: October 2014

New Media Production Week 10

WEEK 10. How is it already week ten? This requires that I reassess all the hopes and dreams I packed into the syllabus in order to identify what we can actually accomplish in the time we have remaining. I have … Continue reading

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Rhetoric and Gaming 10.1 / Research Resources

Today’s class has two primary objectives. First we will discuss the McGonigal reading. I think McGonigal opens interesting pathways into (re)thinking the value of games. Then we will move into the research project that I introduced in our last class. … Continue reading

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New Media Production Wk 9

Tonight we have 2-3 primary objectives. First, I would like to discuss Shipka, and what “A Composition Made Whole” means to you. I am especially interested in hearing from our folks outside of the R/C community. In doing so, I … Continue reading

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Rhetoric and Gaming 9.2 / The Research Project

Project 2 Reflection So far this semester, I have asked you to think about video games in terms of two common concerns of the humanities: art/aesthetics and gender/race. In the first project, we explored whether/how games facilitate higher-level aesthetic experience: … Continue reading

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Walter Ong: Writing is a Way of Being

Lecture notes on Ong: Below are my lecture notes on Ong. Here’s the quick version: Ong, along with Eric Havelock, were among the first scholars to argue that literacy was more than a tool that simply communicates what human think. … Continue reading

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Rhetoric and Gaming 8.2 Bogost, Rhetoric, and Procedurality

We’ll talk more about Bogost next week, after you have completed Project 2. In today’s class, you’ll take a quiz that will highlight some key terms. But I wanted to take a minute to explicate what I see as a … Continue reading

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Rhetoric and Gaming / 8.1 / Bogost and Reading Theory

Via request, I have extended the due date on the second project to next week, providing you with one additional weekend to work together. But I will start on our next units this week: both the unit dealing with rhetoric … Continue reading

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New Media Production / Week 7

Editing Audio In terms of sound editing, it seems like Audacity is still the best choice. It is a free, open-source project available for both PC and Mac: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Here’s some tutorials for working with Audacity. I’m sure you can … Continue reading

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New Media Production / Week 6

On tonight’s agenda: Share Kalman videos Talk about potential Kalman projects Check in re: sf0 and SuperBetter Talk about videography Stockman Old School / New School Zefrank 9-12: College 1 9-13: College 2 7-14: Ugly MySpace Ill Doctrine Rivers’ Series … Continue reading

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