Course Description

The primary question that this class will address is, how has writing and genre changed in the context of network culture? On the one hand, standard design principles for writing web sites have already been established and the web is full of print genres published online. On the other hand, digital environments have produced the emergence of a variety of new genres. While the course will look at some "remediations" of print, the primary aim is to investigate what it might mean to write in an "un-remediated" manner with an eye toward producing and inventing genres that are particular to writing digitally. Students will be expected to read diligently, attend technology workshops outside of class, create and maintain a blog, do smaller web-writing assignments, and produce one larger digital project at the end of the term.