Back from the Wilderness
…In no way literally. Just summer. But ready to get back to work. Things on my mind these days that I’m hoping to write more about in the coming weeks:
- What is the role of non-industry-oriented digital media production in a Media Studies program?
- How much a part of a games education within a Media Studies program ought to involve the study of non-digital games?
- What are we really asking students to reflect on and practice when we teach Screenwriting in a liberal arts context?
- Is it productive to maintain a distinction between “digital story” and “video essay” when discussing new media forms?
- Is Digital Humanities problematic in the way Ian Bogost describes? If not, why not, and if so, are those problems surmountable? And how so?
All of this is on my mind. Plus my 3-year-old seems to hate school. Why. Why?! Hopefully I’ll get to some of it between class-related posts this semester.
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essay or story… depends on the rhetorical situation, and what you’re trying to accomplish. Perhaps focus on creativity: are you trying to elicit or corral it?
Bryan Alexander - 2 September 2011 at 10:26 pm |
Good point — at some level the distinction is more epistemological than ontological, as there are lots of similarities between the two. So when to use one or the other can require strategic judgment.
But then there is that ontological sense as well, that the two terms — essay and story — identify different sets of tendencies in an author’s needs with regard to audiences.
More thinking required.
bboessen - 7 September 2011 at 7:09 pm |
I wonder how far student discussion can go with this. The distinctions can ascend up the theory scale pretty quickly.
Bryan Alexander - 8 September 2011 at 2:18 am |
I’m about to post a longer chunk on this, linking it to what I’m doing in my Digital Video Production course. Stay tuned.
bboessen - 8 September 2011 at 2:16 pm |