MCOM 220 - Digital Storytelling 3 s.h.

Digital storytelling is about enabling ordinary people to use everyday media tools (e.g. smartphones, affordable cameras, social media platforms and mobile apps) in order to create short stories about their own lives and experiences. This course seeks to examine digital storytelling as a means for self-expression and social and political empowerment, in addition to some of its commercial applications. Merging critical analysis and practice, students will examine techniques of successful digital storytelling across multiple media and platforms, such as web television, online documentaries, podcasting, animation, social media storytelling, interactive journalism, digital history projects, and infographics. Students will then apply these skills and models to create their own original audio-video works, emphasizing nonfiction personal narratives. A-E Only. Offered Fall and Spring.
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