💻 Online Writing: Ethics, Appropriation, and Social Media

Upper-level undergraduate course

This course focuses on issues of responsibility, ownership, and access with regards to online-mediated composing. Writing, that is, composing and participating in any genre requires an awareness of discourse communities, a target audience, motivation/purpose, and writing conventions that one might follow or challenge. Studnets in this course therefore research and write online content that explores the ethics and accessibility of texts in technological cultures that both facilitate and prevent access, reviewing strategies utilized across writing contexts and invites students to create their own digital writing pieces individually and alongside classmates in a collaborative environment.