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Week 15.0: The Final Final Checklist
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Alan Levine feels weird writing about himself in the third person. A 1990s pioneer on the web and early proponent of blogging, he shares his ideas at CogDogBlog.com. His interests include web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), mocking MOOCs, daily photography, bending WordPress, and randomly dipping into the infinite river of the internet.
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Week 14.0 (and beyond): Conceptualizing E-Lit about This Digital Life
Alan Levine on How can Electronic literature be used to express your ideas, worries, forecasts for what it means to experience the theme of this course– This Digital Life?
Video Interlude (it has some bearing on E-Lit)
The NetNarr Project
Last week we explored examples of the genres Electronic Literature. For …
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Week 13.0: Exploring Electronic Literature
Alan Levine on What is Electronic Literature? What is the difference, overlap with “regular” literature? What kinds / genres appeal to you as a form you might want to create?
Note: As a reminder, we do not meet in person this week; this work is mostly a reading and exploration assignment, a week …
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Week 12.0: Bot, Not, What?
Alan Levine on Computers can be platforms for software agents that “acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency.” More specifically Chatter Bots are ones that “convincingly simulate how a human would behave as a conversational partner.”
Marrying responses of software agents with greater amounts of artificial intelligence (mining …
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Week 11.0: The Game Board of Digital Redlining
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Week 10.0: Games as Story, Story of Games
Alan Levine on As this course has Narrative in its name, this week we turn to look at the elements of the games we have been discussing and sharing, in particular the role of a story in the creation of a game experience and the story behind games.
The Opener
The Extra Credits …
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Week 9.0: Seriously Yours, Games
Alan Levine on We’ve explored a bit about games we enjoy for our own amusement, distraction, fun. This week we ask if the same methodology can be used for quote / unquote serious purposes- to educate, to connect, to generate empathy. Do such narrative / serious games accomplish this? Why (or why not)?…
Miscellaneous
Twitter Chat: Exploring Serious Games (Mar 20, 5:30PM ET)
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Studio Visit with Remi Kalir and Keegan Long-Wheeler (Mar 19 @ 4:00pm EDT)
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Week 8.0: This is a Game
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Week 7.0: GIFfing It All Together
Alan Levine on In our last week of the Digital Art Segment, following up on Week 6, we continue looking at the art and style of the animated GIF, working to assemble our own miniature GIF movie made of multiple pieces of media.
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Studio Visit with Amy Burvall and Michael Branson Smith (Feb 26 @ 6:30pm EDT)
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Week 6.0: Reading GIFs is Fundamental
Alan Levine on Hatched as means to send video-like content over extremely limited bandwidth of the late 1908s internet, the Animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) has evolved from tiny pixelated cartoonish media to something evocative as art plus virally animated memes in social media.
Miscellaneous
The #SelfieUnselfie Project
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Week 5.0: Looking into (and out from) the Selfie
Alan Levine on Like meme images we studied last week selfies are something we probably do not need to explain to you. They are a form of public media expression that has evolved into a thing of their own because of networked social media, and to many, a genre of digital art.