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Visual Literacy Seminar (A First Course in Methodology) · Language in Society (A Third Course in Methodology) · The Writer's Guild
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Communicative Objective #1 (CO1): The Re-patent · Presentation/Gaming Activity: "Shopping Happens" · The History of "this" Space: UMBC Food
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Explanation of How to Read "This" Objective · Parameters for Recontextualizing Authorless Text
The Authorless Text Narrative · The Authorless Text Goals, Choices, and Process Narrative-Sketch · The Authorless Text Rolling Credits
The Authorless Text Lost and Found · The Authorless Text Workshops One and Two: Brainstorming Ideas Within a Social Context · The Authorless Text that was Researched, Tested, and Abandoned
Authorless Text Blackboard Community Post
“This” objective provides a brief synopsis of my life through business cards (Authorless Text) using a de- and re-contextualization method. My objective is to tell a story that many people will be able to identify with in a way that cannot be told through the strict adherence of using text. The communication will be an exercise in multi-modal communication and interactive for the reader. In other words, the reader will not be a passive consumer of the text by simply reading, but will interact with the text by performing “actions” to obtain the communication: audio, video, text, and images. Sorry but I have yet to figure out how to produce smell, touch or taste through a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Below is the collection of the Authorless Text (business cards) that I will be using to de-contextualize and re-contextualize into my tale of “Altered States, Analog to Digital: A brief synopsis of my life told through business cards."
The Altered States is a play on words and ideas and will encompass the following:
The reader will have to click on the hypertext below a business card, as an example Farmingdale Evening College and have a hypertext message that reads, “Click here if you feel stressed out." When the reader clicks on the hypertext, a new window will open providing a brief explanation of what was happening in my life when I obtained the selected business card.
As with the “Re-patent” communication objective, there will be many pages explaining the entire design of the communication.
Autobiography Part 1 · Autobiography Part 2
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