Course Overview
IS312: Reading and Writing Data
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Course Description
This seminar explores how we tell stories and make arguments in the age of the internet and “big data.” We will study both traditional and electronic literature to see how writers and readers have grappled with the political, social, and expressive implications of computational media and data. In addition, we will explore both creative and scholarly works that experiment with the forms of expression that digital and online media make possible, and others that question the consequences of those new forms. We will analyze historical interplays among technology, new media, and culture in order to better understand the upheavals of our own technological moment. Students will develop skills for making sense of textual data in a variety of media. Students will read data and read critically about data while gaining greater capacity to both write about and with data.
Course & Instructor Information
Course Information | Instructor Information |
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Course Title: Reading and Writing Data Course Number: IS312 Semester and Year: Fall 2022 Classroom and Class Time: MWF 11:00-11:50am Weekly Contact Hours Required: Course meets 3 times per week for 0:50 minutes |
Name of Instructor: Ryan Cordell Name of Instructional Assistant(s): Matthew Kollmer |
Acknowledgments
This course benefits from many colleague's models, which I try to acknowledge in specific assignments, but especially to Paul Fyfe's "Data and the Human" course Links to an external site. at NCSU.
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