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Course name: Writing 2 - Digital Futures

Institution: Baruch College, CUNY

Instructor: Zach Muhlbauer

Wikipedia Expert: Ian (Wiki Ed)

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Course dates: 2022-02-01 00:00:00 UTC – 2022-05-30 23:59:59 UTC

Approximate number of student editors: 20

In this course, the second semester required writing course at Baruch, you will develop your ability to read, write, and think critically. One of the most important abilities you’ll develop over the course of your studies (and hopefully throughout your life) is the ability to discern how the way we think is shaped by language and other semiotic codes such as sound and images. This course will ask that you think critically about the arguments of others and in turn develop and communicate your own ideas and arguments.

For the theme of this course, we will focus our attention on the established and emergent technologies that mediate communication at a distance, inflecting the ways in which we create meaning and share knowledge in the age of social distancing. We will therefore read, write, and think about the evolving discourse of new media technology by reflecting on our personal experiences with social media and networked communication. If indeed language makes worlds, then we’ll consider how digital mediums work to mold those worlds and give them shape, often in ways that are not obvious to our familiar eyes. Inundated by information and preciously dependent on new media technology to navigate our days, we will also address the possible futures currently at stake among the digital universe. In doing so, we will engage with a variety of discursive genres ranging from essay, poetry, and fiction to film, audio, and meme.

Such inquiry will lead us to ask difficult questions about the relationship of contemporary technology to the construction of the social self, prefiguring an array of discourse communities in which we find belonging and relationality on a daily basis. These conversations will ultimately converge on what it means to compose and communicate our thoughts through new media formats, and how in turn we can assume more control over our lives as digital citizens of the world.

Student	Assigned	Reviewing
America5293	Information economy, Criticism of capitalism, Communism in Russia, Shaw v. Reno
Iky234	Criticism of Google, Datafication, Information economy, Religious music	Jeen-Yuhs
Jw330	Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, The Social Dilemma
Robert.pellicane	Personalized marketing, Commercialization of the Internet
Raina623	Riverdale, Bronx, Surveillance, Shaw v. Reno, Riverdale Monument
Kacperlojek	Digital citizen, The Social Dilemma, Commercialization of the Internet, BMW 5 Series
Ctourdot4	Shaw v. Reno, History of art criticism, Ballet
Funkymonkey69000	The Social Dilemma
Gkusi18.	Datafication, Information economy, Jeen-Yuhs, Religious music
Jessielin416	Google+, Commercialization of the Internet, The Social Dilemma, Personalized marketing, Big data
Sjiang5628	The Social Dilemma, The Billion Dollar Code
Z1016	Criticism of Google, Datafication, Jeen-Yuhs, Religious music	Information economy, Jeen-Yuhs
Edelinek	Personalized marketing, Commercialization of the Internet, The Social Dilemma
Springdc26	Shaw v. Reno
Jwang9480	TikTok, Commercialization of the Internet, The Social Dilemma, Personalized marketing
Ankyrth	Religious music
Oikam	Nike Air Max, Information economy, The Social Dilemma, The Billion Dollar Code
Sammyklez	Surveillance, Disease surveillance, Antisemitism in the United States, Shaw v. Reno
Beataver	Religious music