About the Course

This course will explore new media writing for the Web, including blogs, websites, digital photo essays, and social networking.  More specifically, we will be concerned with the visual as it relates to language: how text and image interact to create meaning, establish voice and tone, and elicit interactive responses from the reader/viewer.  In addition to performing critical analysis of existing new media forms, students will produce examples of these forms.  Our projects will include a website, a digital photo essay, and a social networking experiment.  Each student will also co-author an academic blog where s/he will discuss course readings, explore ideas about the interaction of text and image, analyze examples of the new media forms we are studying, and examine his/her own production of new media writing.