RSVP for Scott McCloud’s Free Public Lecture

The DSC, the Office of Campus Involvement, the Chancellor’s Office, the Department of English, and the Department of Fine Arts will host award winning cartoonist, author, and theorist Scott McCloud on April 7, 2015 at 6:30 in Penn 401. Author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics and the new…

Digital Studies Courses – Spring 2024

…refer to using tools of scholarly investigation and analysis to explore digital worlds, such as the digital worlds that make up popular online games. It can also refer to using digital tools, such as audiovisual equipment and smart phones, to do research in offline settings, such as hospitals and classrooms….

Fall 2018 DS Courses

…What kind of trash are we producing, and should we be considering more sustainable approaches to not only the digital devices that end up in landfills but also the text, images, sound, and video we distribute online? INTERNSHIP IN DIGITAL STUDIES 50:209:305 Hours by Arrangement Emmons DIGITAL STUDIES CAPSTONE 50:209:401…

2017-2018 Fellows

…the Remaking of Celebrity Culture (McFarland, 2013) and the co-editor of Controversies in Digital Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Theorizing Digital Rhetoric (Routledge, 2017). Her interdisciplinary scholarship on identity, politics, and digital technology has appeared in such journals as Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Transformative Works & Culture, Journal of Media &…