Instructor
Spring 2012

This course offers an introduction to the historical development and cultural impact of various forms of media including print, radio, television, film, and interactive electronic applications. Students will gain familiarity with canonical texts and will develop the skills to analyze contemporary and historical media through various lenses. 

Course themes include: representation, illusion, semiotics, structuralism, the uncanny, aura, mass media, modernism, reception, digital media, technological determinism, postmodernism, remediation, convergence, and mixed reality.

Teaching Assistant to Professor Jay Bolter
Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2011

In this discussion- and project-based course,  the forms and functions of contemporary media are investigated through the theoretical lenses of both cultural studies and performance studies. Students design, execute and evaluate original research of such digital forms as: blogs, MMOs (Second Life, World of Warcraft, etc.), social media sites (Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, etc.), and other manifestations of remix culture. 

Students learn to analyze digital media practices and applications with a view to their historical and cultural contexts, work together in teams to produce an original research project of such practices or applications, and further develop their research skills as well as written and oral communication skills.

Teaching Assistant to Professor Blair Macintyre
Spring 2011

In this project-based course students explore the creative potential of Augmented Reality (AR), using primarily the Argon mobile AR Browser developed by the Augmented Environments Lab in the GVU Center at Georgia Tech. Students design, implement and evaluate original AR projects, drawing on a range of disciplines, reading and discussing articles on MR technology, HCI, location-based experience design, social computing, performance, museum studies and new media design.