Comments on: Launching the Emerging Media Major http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/launching-the-emerging-media-major/ Thoughts on Emerging Media and Higher Education Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:17:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bayan azdirici http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/launching-the-emerging-media-major/comment-page-1/#comment-188312 Bayan azdirici Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:05:01 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=364#comment-188312 Wow! I think digital literacy is something that is very needed, although it sounds like this course goes well beyond that. Does it offer specialistations in social media use in terms of use eg education/communications/knowledge m’mt? I agree with your suggestion that the course won’t look the same in a few years time, things change so fast. Wow! I think digital literacy is something that is very needed, although it sounds like this course goes well beyond that. Does it offer specialistations in social media use in terms of use eg education/communications/knowledge m’mt? I agree with your suggestion that the course won’t look the same in a few years time, things change so fast.

]]> By: Rachel Lehman http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/launching-the-emerging-media-major/comment-page-1/#comment-125663 Rachel Lehman Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:23:53 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=364#comment-125663 It's really exciting to see fresh, innovative majors like this becoming available. Great work! It’s really exciting to see fresh, innovative majors like this becoming available. Great work!

]]> By: Mollybob http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/launching-the-emerging-media-major/comment-page-1/#comment-124431 Mollybob Mon, 31 Aug 2009 07:53:50 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=364#comment-124431 Wow! I think digital literacy is something that is very needed, although it sounds like this course goes well beyond that. Does it offer specialistations in social media use in terms of use eg education/communications/knowledge m'mt? I agree with your suggestion that the course won't look the same in a few years time, things change so fast. Wow! I think digital literacy is something that is very needed, although it sounds like this course goes well beyond that. Does it offer specialistations in social media use in terms of use eg education/communications/knowledge m’mt? I agree with your suggestion that the course won’t look the same in a few years time, things change so fast.

]]> By: Rob Vann http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/2009/launching-the-emerging-media-major/comment-page-1/#comment-123582 Rob Vann Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:02:11 +0000 http://academhack.outsidethetext.com/home/?p=364#comment-123582 Great to read a bit about the Emerging Media major you're working on. I'll be transferring to UTD in the Spring and look forward to intersecting with some the relevant coursework (though my focus is user-interface design and human computer interaction through Cognitive Science). One thing that struck a chord within your syllabus excerpt was, "[k]nowledge is a communal process even if we have been taught to treat it as an individual product." Are you at all familiar w/ FA Hayek and his essay on "The Use of Knowledge in Society"? [http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Economics/HayekUseOfKnowledge.html] While his influence was primarily in the realm of economics (especially of the Austrian, Chicago, and other free-market schools), I found this essay highly interesting in how it parallels the concepts of social media and distributed knowledge. Extrapolate the concept to social media sites like Digg or Reddit and knowledge becomes a currency all its own in proportion to the value it holds to a particular community. I'm excited for a future where academic rigor and open discourse embrace, rather than rebuke, the social media waves crashing into the shores of our consumer-driven, globalized civilization. The fact that you seem to find hope for empowerment and expression -- rather than despair over privacy rights and corporate coopting -- reinforces that excitement. Great to read a bit about the Emerging Media major you’re working on. I’ll be transferring to UTD in the Spring and look forward to intersecting with some the relevant coursework (though my focus is user-interface design and human computer interaction through Cognitive Science).

One thing that struck a chord within your syllabus excerpt was, “[k]nowledge is a communal process even if we have been taught to treat it as an individual product.” Are you at all familiar w/ FA Hayek and his essay on “The Use of Knowledge in Society”? [http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Economics/HayekUseOfKnowledge.html] While his influence was primarily in the realm of economics (especially of the Austrian, Chicago, and other free-market schools), I found this essay highly interesting in how it parallels the concepts of social media and distributed knowledge. Extrapolate the concept to social media sites like Digg or Reddit and knowledge becomes a currency all its own in proportion to the value it holds to a particular community.

I’m excited for a future where academic rigor and open discourse embrace, rather than rebuke, the social media waves crashing into the shores of our consumer-driven, globalized civilization. The fact that you seem to find hope for empowerment and expression — rather than despair over privacy rights and corporate coopting — reinforces that excitement.

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