This might be short: I feel like I've done a ton of work already this week (because I have) for this course and I'm kinda done with it for now and right now. However, I do want to say that the structure of the prompts and assignment on this week's readings worked very well for me. It was helpful to not read the texts to explore/understand their meaning or critically read their content but to read the texts to see whether they were doing media culture or studying media culture in the way that the Mitchell & Hansen introduction say it should/could be done.
I'm finding that changing the wiki pages is challenging. I'm hesitant to change things without checking it out with others first. I'm especially hesitant to delete content. Adding seems okay. Deleting seems a bit rude without discussing it first, but with trying to explain it later. I don't know, I tried it both ways this week...with the medium and technology definitions.
Yes, I saw the thought you put in this week, Deedee, and appreciated how you started things off. It is good to hear that ways I asked you all to read were useful; I need that sort of feedback, for I want class to be just the right amount of challenge for people, and for the readings to be focused.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking that it will be soon time to have an "all class" discussion on the wiki: I do understand that editing the words of others is hard, seems rude, etc. What would you think of a discussion in which we addressed both how everyone feels that tension but also how that tension could be understood in terms of a sense of word-ownership coming out of print culture? Does that make sense?