Final project presentations

Final project presentations will happen during our scheduled exam time.  We’ll meet from 9:30-11:00 AM on April 30th (note the later start time) in SOC #003.  Please come prepared to present your project and ask questions about the other groups’ work.

Meme resources and information about our Quimby’s visit

A couple of links from our discussion on memes:

• Internet meme timeline
• Rocketboom’s Know Your Meme series
• Michael Wesch’s YouTube anthroplogy talk at the Library of Congress

Next Tuesday (2/24) we’ll be meeting at 2:30pm (sharp) in the lobby of the SOC to journey to Quimby’s bookstore, which is located at 1854 W. North Ave in Wicker Park.

Camp Fandom 2.0

If you’re interested in all things fandom, you might check out Camp Fandom 2.0, happening the weekend of March 20 at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Here’s the description of the event:

Camp Fandom 2.0 is for fans, fan fiction writers, fan vidders, fan website maintainers, entertainment companies, convention dealers, convention runners, gamers, bloggers, professional authors, new media artists, fan artists, or people who have some investment in movie, television, music or speculative fiction fan communities.  The topics are should be geared around the web, social media, on-line activities, computers, gaming, or mobile phones as they pertain to that topic.  Camp Fandom 2.0 is about the back end of fandom, the support structures that go into being a fan.

It looks like there might be some pretty great opportunities for you to use this event for your final guerrilla/alternative media project – either by presenting a panel at the camp, by liveblogging the event, or shooting footage for a digital film documenting what goes on during the gathering.

Alternative media resources wiki

Our class wiki is located at cmun297.wetpaint.com.  We’ll be updating it regularly throughout the semester with links to more information about some of the topics we’re discussing during class.

Welcome to CMUN 297 – Guerrilla Media!

This is the official course blog for CMUN 297 begin taught by Adrienne Massanari in the School of Communication at Loyola University.  You can view student blogs by clicking on the links at the bottom of the page.  We’ll be reading, writing, and thinking a lot this semseter about alternative media and creating some of our own artifacts to share with the rest of the world.