New Media Research Studio

Next week we will start our first NMRS journal series. Please follow these instructions:

1. Watch Adam Curtis’s The Trap: What Happened To Our Dream Of Freedom
2. Each choose 1 topic that stood out, intrigued, irritated, disturbed or made you tick in any way and try to discover the discourse around it through research and expand it through your own commentary.
3. Write at least one posts to the class blog before the end of Sunday. Make sure to include references and links where needed and to expose the discussion in an enticing post that would make the rest of the class interested enough to discuss it.
4. Choose at least three of the posts published by other students in the class and comment on them using the blog’s commenting interface.
5. Be prepared to present the posts you chose to react to next week to the class.
6. Additionally: Write a short post about how do you see the relevancy of the trap to the new media discourse.

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