50169 Writing and New Media

8cp
Professional Strand - Writing - 200 level

This subject explores the impacts of new media on writing. Students examine a range of works in which writing and new media intersect, with a focus on blogs, hypertexts and other nonlinear interactive works. They investigate the emergence of the Internet as a publishing space for writers, the rise of blogs, and approaches to writing nonlinear works. They look at the relationships of image and text in new media writing, and explore emerging spaces for writing such as mobile phone/sms delivery. They learn how to structure writing projects for online/interactive delivery, and issues concerning writing for the Internet. Students gain skills in developing basic online works, develop a piece of collaborative writing in the form of a hypertext, and an individual project.

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http://www.hss.uts.edu.au/subject_descriptions/50169.pdf

Typical availability

Spring semester, City campus

Fee information

2007 contribution for post-2004 Commonwealth-supported students: $832.67
2007 amount for undergraduate domestic fee-paying students: $2,760.00
Subject EFTSL: 0.167
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Access conditions

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