Guerilla Media–Blogging…

Welcome to my first blog entry ever, inspired by the course I am teaching on Guerilla Media at Loyola University Chicago.   I am immediately stunned by how this moment integrates the emotions of performing on stage, writing in my journal, and scheduling Fall 08 courses (which I should be doing instead of this…)  Dancing in the Nutcracker pales in comparison, though…

Let’s  start with this page’s topic–creating blogs on guerilla media and finding shared interests.  I want students to post their ideas for their blogs on my site, and then, we’ll let democracy and interactivity do their thing…

The Guerilla Media course will cover the histories of several community media categories:  public access and indy TV; community, public and pirate radio; blogs and global internet access; guerilla marketing; digital storytelling; participatory media and fan culture.

I want my students to post their blogging interests related to media/technology:

Here’s what I’m interested in:

Digital Storytelling

Collaborative Storytelling

Birth of new medium for storytelling.

Body movement around, in front of, and represented in new technology–e.g., gaming and body movement (or lack of it).

Regulatory and political future of media access–internet, TV, radio.

How editorial practices and corporate branding techniques impact what stories get told.  Do old models work?  Do we want them too?  Who wins?  Who loses here…?

Performance art and the internet.

Art on screens.  Screens in museums.  In installations.

Presidential elections and media exhaustion

Third Party presidential candidates.  Is Ralph Nader online?  Is the Green party?

Post your interests….Include everything from jewelry making to pumping iron to post-modern humanism, and then let’s think about how the media or new technology have an impact on them.

Let’s see if this works now…..

elizabeth coffman

~ by ecoffman on January 24, 2008.