(English 295, BYU, Spring, 2011)
- Bayles, Greg
- Blog: "New Horizons"
- Novel studied, The Fountainhead
- Tweethis: "Is creativity yet an individual ideal, or has it become a collective and collaborative process?"
- Final Paper: "The Fountainhead of Human Creativity"
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Boud, Holly
- Blog: "Is There Felicity in the World Superior to This?"
- Novel studied: Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Tweethis: "The 'social text' is replacing traditional literary texts. We now experience and ought to study a combination of multiple formats, including a social layer that links text and contexts."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "The Social Text"
- Coleman, Emily
- Blog: "A Ghost-Ship Setting Sail"
- Novel studied: Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
- Tweethis: "Though digital culture is causing great social change, women use the new media to strengthen their traditional roles."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "'Tomorrow is Another Day': Using the 'New Day' of the Internet to Strengthen Gender Roles"
- Davis, Anna
- Blog: "S'hada Elbib"
- Novel studied: The Poisonwood Bible
- Tweethis: "Blogging and other social networking have the power to help us work toward a great moral goal: the deconstruction of societal institutions and removing the harmful, immoral and unhealthy parts of the symbolic order."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "Deconstruction in Blogging and Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible"
- Hickey, Alan
- Blog: "Bravely Becoming Part of the New World"
- Novel studied: George Orwell, 1984
- Tweethis: "If we are not careful, large media companies like Google or Facebook will exercise ideological control over us, like Big Brother in 1984."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "Thoughts on Control: Hegemony and Choice in the Digital Age"
- Jenkins, Sam
- Blog: "Makin' Franken-sense"
- Novel studied: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Tweethis: "The internet is the laboratory where we lose control of our creations."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "The Internet: A Creation Out of Control"
- Lewis, Ashley
- Blog: "O Shakespeare, Shakespeare!"
- Work studied: William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- Tweethis: "Ophelia's identity was controlled by others, leading to her death. It can be dangerous if we allow ourselves to be puppets of traditional formats, like the research paper."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "Ophelia Drowning: Cleansing Herself of Social Roles"
- Oldroyd, Erica "Go Placidly Amidst English 295"
- Novel studied: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
- Tweethis: "Social media create communities that encourage confession."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "Confession Spells P-O-W-E-R"
- Phillips, Makenna
- Blog: "Around the World of Literature in the Digital Age"
- Novel studied: L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- Tweethis: "The Internet -- and blogging in particular -- changes the way that we imagine"
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "Imagination in the Blogging World"
- Simons, Whitney
- Blog: "Writing in the Digital Age"
- Novel studied: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- Tweethis: "Technology can remove communication problems and improve romantic relationships."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper:
- Sorenson, Adam
- Blog: So I Read Somewhere That..."
- Novel studied: Lois Lowry, The Giver
- Tweethis: "Because of social media and the ability to collaborate, is the individual hero needed any longer?"
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper:
- Winterton, Jen
- Blog: "jblawgs"
- Novel studied: Bram Stoker, Dracula
- Tweethis: "We need to master digital collaboration tools in order to take on the natural and man-made monsters of our day."
- Video "trailer" for final project
- Final Paper: "Collaboration in the Digital Age: Fighting the Draculas of Today"
Writing about Literature in the Digital Age
(English 295, BYU, Spring, 2011)
- Clements, Derrick
Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman, Assassins - Gilbert, Taylor
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters - Harrison, Matthew
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game - Letts, Ariel
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game - Lewis, Ashley
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
- Matthews, James
Henry David Thoreau, Walden - McGrath, Samuel
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Nelson, Ashley
James Joyce, Dubliners - Ostler, Andrea
Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon - Rutter, Alyssa
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird - Schiel, Rachael
Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths - Silvester, Nyssa
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground - Wagner, Benjamin
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby - Wallentine, Carlie
E.B. White, Charlotte's Web - Whitaker, Amy
Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows - Zabriskie, BriAnne
Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
