2. WHY IS DTC IMPORTANT TO ME?
➤ My majors in undergrad were:
English and Philosophy with a
History minor.
➤ I had friends who were
computer science majors.
➤ My friends knew how to
program, maybe read science
fiction, but often didn’t think
about the political or cultural
questions that came with
these technologies.
3. WHAT IS DTC?
➤ Website: “an interdisciplinary degree program that combines the
creative production and critical exploration of digital media.”
➤ Early 1990s, Tim Hunt at WSU-Vancouver, quoted from Patty
Ericsson “Sustainability and Digital Technology: Program Analysis Via a
‘Three-Legged’ Framework”
“[C]ultures experience profound reorganizations when their
modes of transmitting and storing language change.” “[T]he
emergence of electronic media and computing… will likely turn
out to have been the most fundamental reconfiguration of our
means of learning, enacting, transmitting, and storing language
since the massification of print (perhaps since the emergence of
writing).”
4. “Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy
is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to
teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out
what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is
incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And
our political system doesn’t help.”
5.
6. ➤ 336: Composition and
Design, Kristin Becker
➤ 354: Digital
Storytelling, Rebecca
Goodrich
➤ 356: Information
Structures, David Squires
➤ 475: Digital Diversity,
Anna Plemons
