New Media in One Minute (it’s educational)

Posted: December 1st, 2009 | Filed under: I'll Learn You |

I teach in an area of questionable disciplinary distinctiveness - an area called “New Media.”  It’s a subject heading that few are happy with, in or out of the field - and I wonder if it will even be around in a few years. Meanwhile, once a year I have to explain my field to freshmen who are looking for a major. Each year I get better at reducing this fraught area to a few spare words. Here’s this year’s introduction, as a VERY short slideshow below.

I also distributed a handout/infodump of institutions and reference points for the field - now two years old and certainly not comprehensive, but perhaps of use to some of you. Download and share here.

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5 Comments on “New Media in One Minute (it’s educational)”

  1. 1 Charlie Roderick said at 3:35 am on December 1st, 2009:

    field closed

  2. 2 Charlie Roderick said at 3:36 am on December 1st, 2009:

    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3218/2407950450_37444ae598_b.jpg

  3. 3 Ned said at 4:35 pm on December 3rd, 2009:

    re academic disciplines serving new media, you neglected rhetoric, as most do

  4. 4 kham said at 4:45 pm on December 3rd, 2009:

    Fair enough Ned - I could have listed others too - I need to figure out how to quickly communicate where this thing is and isn’t meant to be comprehensive…

  5. 5 kham said at 4:46 pm on December 3rd, 2009:

    I need arrows into that slide with “other”! That’ll help…

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