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Project 2
Multimodal Portfolio
Due Date: Dec 10th
DESCRIPTION:
Your final project for this class will be a multimedia analysis or creation on a topic of your choosing, related to the content of the class. Your two options are to either 1. educate or inform on a topic or 2. use your new found digital strategies to create a project or online platform.
Similar to Project 1, you will need to include multiple materials in your project, including text, video, photos, etc. and you must consider and address issues of audience, ethics, diversity, and design. Some examples: an informative webpage about the histories of social media, an visual explanation of the internet of things, A webzine of readings about emojis, an article published on Medium about the intersections of digital identities and selfie-culture, a webpage of algorithm results, etc.
The idea here is to use your creativity to visualize, design, present, and/or organize data and information across multiple contexts. I encourage you to tap into your own interests to create something you are proud of and that can be used in your future portfolio. I also encourage you to steer yourself towards a project that incorporates your design/information system interests. Are you more interested in community engagement within web based formats? Are you interested in data collection/visualization? Theorizing on a digital topic? Are you interested in more analog formats such as books or zines reimagined in a digital format? Use this opportunity to combine your interests with what you’ve learned in this class and the DTC program in general.
Your finished project will be evaluated on creativity and evidence that you engaged with the concepts and ideas presented in this class this semester. You may work solely with collecting and presenting information, or you may do something more community or aesthetically oriented, but whatever you produce should be comprehensive. You will also turn in a one page reflection with your project that will allow you to explain your ideas, decisions, and interests with your project so I have plenty of context for your final product. Again, the format you choose is completely up to you. Everything from a PDF to a webpage are acceptable.
Inspiration:
Rural Conversation Prompts
Place Talks
Palouse Hotline
Trans/Space
riseup.net
https://the-life-and-death-of-an-internet-onion.com/
http://emojitracker.com/
https://emojinalysis.tumblr.com/
https://anthology.rhizome.org/
http://distributedweb.care/
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/digital-downloads
Past DTC Student work
Work by DTC Chair Kim Christen
https://soulellis.com/work/index.html
https://letusaffirmourdesiretokeepswimming.com/
https://ctrl-shift.org/
https://www.somewheregood.com/
Platforms:
Medium
GitHub
Wordpress
WIX
Weebly
Persona
Are.na
Strikingly
Tumblr
Text Adventures (game creator)
DELIVERABLES:
~ Your finished project link or file.
~ Your one page reflection describing your choices, considerations, techniques, your strengths and weaknesses, and any other relevant info with this project.
~. Works cited (if you are using sources/info from other sources for your project).
* Submit all materials via blackboard.
SYLLABUS ✧ SCHEDULE ✧ READINGS ✧ PROJECT 1 ✧ PROJECT 2 ✧ DISCUSSIONS & REFLECTIONS