Poster
Oriana Gatta
PhD Candidate, Rhetoric and Composition 2CI New & Emerging Media Fellow Department of English
Georgia State University
Biography
Oriana Gatta is a Rhetoric and Composition Ph.D. candidate in Georgia State University’s Department of English, and her research interests include Visual Culture/Rhetoric, Postmodern and Postcolonial Feminist Theory, Comic Book Studies, Critical Pedagogy, New Media, and University Writing Program Administration.
Abstract
Humanities-based undergraduate programs in the U.S. offering digital media-based coursework abound. It is possible, for example, to get a degree in art and technology studies, computer animation, conceptual media arts, design interactions, digital arts, digital media arts, digital storytelling, electronic music and multimedia, interactive multimedia, media art histories, media architecture, media creations, new media, sound in new media, technoculture studies, transmedia, and visual communication design. However, much of the scholarship on digital pedagogy bases its findings on individual case studies and/or anecdotal evidence from a few programs. This is undoubtedly in part because no digital archive cataloguing these programs and tagged metadata currently exists. To remedy this situation, I have begun constructing such an archive.
The presentation will therefore begin with a brief introduction to the archive, its taxonomy of tags, and its research potential. The core of the presentation will be my own initial comparative analysis of the 200+ archived programs’ definitions of digital media and the pedagogical objectives of their curricula.