LitMUSE

This assignment will ask you to use iMovie to create a digital story that uses some of the themes and images of a work that we have read this semester. Start with a small, simple idea that is inspired by a poem, short story, or any work that we have read this semester. Find images, [...]

Now that we have finished reading and discussing Murray’s Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace, it’s time that we synthesized the knowledge we gained from the text. In your groups, summarize the main points of your assigned chapters on the blog (please use the “Holodeck” category). Assign one person to write [...]

In Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins defines convergence culture as: the flow of content across multiple media platforms, the cooperation between multiple media industries, and the migratory behavior of media audiences who will go almost anywhere in search of the kinds of entertainment experiences they want. (2) As we have seen, Jenkins emphasizes participation, community, and [...]

You will be creating a spatial story on LitMUSE for this exercise. Using the ideas from the reading this semester, especially Jenkins’ “Game Design as Narrative Architecture,” try your hand at environmental storytelling by building a space in the MOO for enacted narratives, embedded narratives, and/or emergent narratives — perhaps recalling another text that that [...]

Now that you have had some experience in the converging of media in the Flickr Story, we want to take it a bit further. This assignment will ask you to use iMovie to add sound and motion to your narrative: think convergence.

In an effort to begin to think about narrative in ways other than the printed of a novel or short story, we will start our experimentation with photographs. For this assignment, you can either get out the old shoebox of photos to scan, or take new digital photos. You may work as a team on [...]

An excellent way to begin Podcasting is by starting with This I Believe. Read or listen to several of the works at NPR’s This I Believe web site, like Jason Sheehan’s “There Is No Such Thing as Too Much Barbecue,” Jamaica Ritcher’s “There Is More to Life Than My Life,” or Penn Jillette’s “There Is [...]

You have been asked to begin revising the Criterion essay that you took at the beginning of the semester. Here is the topic: According to the law in many states, you become an “adult” at age eighteen or twenty-one, but for most people the sense of being an adult does not depend strictly on chronological [...]

Choose a song that has been a favorite of yours for a long time. Find the lyrics and print them out so you can analyze them, like you would a short story or a poem. As you listen to the song a couple of times, make notes about The tone of the music: is it [...]

This assignment has you constructing an annotated bibliography on our novel, Norman Mailer’s An American Dream. First, go to the library and find at least three critical articles (from books or scholarly journals) or books that address Mailer’s novel. Your job will be to read and summarize each article or chapter in a paragraph after [...]