I've had 300-level (and grad) students in my media studies courses create Twitter bots as a way of exploring agency, materiality, inscriptions, infrastructures, etc. It's worked for nontechnical students too (a related assignment in grad school is actually how I learned Python). The bots don't need to be technically complex or challenging to be intellectually interesting. Here are the relevant snippets from my syllabus last year: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XuajU_4F2wigVbk0DQCoRmGhVXaUhqmHtZC4pCMD... ___________________________ Sent by the magic of mobile technology
On Jul 14, 2017, at 8:10 AM, Jeffrey M Keefer (NYU) <jk904@nyu.edu> wrote:
I offer my graduate research students a Twitter Extra Credit assignment, and have it on my website for anybody to use: jeffreykeefer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SPSRPM-Twitter-Extra-Credit-090616v5.docx <http://jeffreykeefer.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/SPSRPM-Twitter-Extra-Credit-090616v5.docx>
Hope it can be useful for anybody here!
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On Jul 10, 2017, at 5:17 PM, Franklin Yartey <fyartey@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Colleagues: Do any of you have any meaningful and effective Twitter assignments for 100 and 300 level social media classes you could consider sharing with me? I look forward to your responses.
Thanks.
Franklin
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