A Syllabus For Change: Cultivating Internet and Social Media Literacy, and Reading and Composing The Self Online

Abstract

This project proposes a syllabus for an upper-level composition course about internet and social media literacy that is focused on students’ understanding of the self (and the online “public”) as it is represented in digital spaces. One of the key objectives of this proposed course is for students is to develop a better understanding of the construction and dissemination of texts, images, and videos online. Simultaneously, students are meant to explore their own composition practices in these multimodal spaces. By the end of this course, students will be able to better understand the ethical implications of their “online citizenship” and develop some clear frameworks for approaching complex ethical situations in digital media.