Disaster Media

  • News
  • Short history
  • Media examples
  • Class resources
    • Syllabus
    • All texts and multimedia
    • Reading response doc
    • Writing assignment #1
    • Writing assignment #2
    • Writing assignment #3
    • Final project
    • Student work folders
    • Skillshare signup
  • Week 1. Introductions & course overview
    Week 1. Introductions & course overview

    January 24 & 26

  • Week 2. Accidents and the state of exception
    Week 2. Accidents and the state of exception

    January 31 & February 2

  • Week 3. Representing disaster, communicating crisis
    Week 3. Representing disaster, communicating crisis

    February 7 & 9

  • Week 4. Epistemology of disaster: design and visualization
    Week 4. Epistemology of disaster: design and visualization

    February 14 & 16

  • Week 5. Disaster porn and the complexity of “aid”
    Week 5. Disaster porn and the complexity of “aid”

    February 21 & 23

  • Week 6. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”: The neoliberal disaster
    Week 6. “Never let a good crisis go to waste”: The neoliberal disaster

    February 28 & March 2

  • Week 7. Broadcasting disaster
    Week 7. Broadcasting disaster

    March 7 & 9

  • Spring break
    Spring break

    March 14 & 16

  • Week 8. Networks, resiliency, and routing around disaster
    Week 8. Networks, resiliency, and routing around disaster

    March 21 & 23

  • Week 9. Software crisis & maintenance
    Week 9. Software crisis & maintenance

    March 28 & March 30

  • Week 10. “Be prepared”: Voluntarism, mutual aid, prepper culture, and the Cajun Navy
    Week 10. “Be prepared”: Voluntarism, mutual aid, prepper culture, and the Cajun Navy

    April 4 & 6

  • Week 11. Virtual empathy and community
    Week 11. Virtual empathy and community

    April 11 & 13

  • Week 12. Project initiation
    Week 12. Project initiation

    April 18 & 20

  • Week 13. Trauma, memory, memorialization
    Week 13. Trauma, memory, memorialization

    April 25 & 27

  • Week 14. Flex week, “knowledge-on-demand”
    Week 14. Flex week, “knowledge-on-demand”

    May 2 & 4

  • Week 15. Project presentations

    May 9


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