[Air-l] RE: Course Readings

[Greg Wise]

You might try Graham Meikle's Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet
(Routledge, 2002) or Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers Cyberactivism:
Online Activism in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2003). I suspect, from
your description of your students, the former might work better.

greg


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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 14:25:56 -0500
From: Ed Lamoureux <ell at bradley.edu>
To: Air-l at aoir.org
Subject: [Air-l] course readings/esp. books
Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org

I'm starting to work on a 400 level (senior) undergraduate seminar for 
the spring focused on non-commercial uses for multimedia.

I'm pretty sure that I'm going to use Rich Media Poor Democracy as one 
of the texts (the one that "establishes the nature of the problem") . . 
.

but I'm not having much luck finding the "and here's what we can do 
about it with new media" text for the other side of the equation.

Any suggestions? Our students are very very practical . . . the program 
itself is a production major at a comprehensive institution . . . the 
students aren't very well positioned for "critical theory." I'm looking 
for practical ways to leverage what we do with  web/cd/dvd authoring as 
positive contributions to our culture as opposed to only showing 
students how to make stuff that works in commercial products and 
projects.

thanks for any suggestions.

Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D.
Interim Director, Multimedia Program and New Media Center
Associate Professor, Speech Communication
1501 W. Bradley
Bradley University
Peoria IL  61625
309-677-2378
Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion