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Mia Zamora, Ph.D.

http://miazamoraphd.com

MA in English, Writing Studies

http://keanwritingstudies.org

The official class site for Dr. Mia Zamora’s Spring 2023 "Networked Narratives" course.

Welcome to Networked Narratives, 2023

#NetNarr: The Human Nature of Writing is the current version of “Networked Narratives” – a connected learning course at Kean University. It is the sixth iteration of this unique course, designed in Spring 2023. Previous iterations of the “Networked Narratives” course live in another place.

Also known as #NetNarr, this open, networked, experimental course is the brainchild of two friends and colleagues – Mia Zamora and Alan Levine. Collaborating and co-teaching from a distance (as it has always been done), they were originally inspired by a laboratory-collaboratory concept for learning and a modern version of alchemy. Embracing the idea of both Kean students and open participants tinkering, mixing, remixing elements in their digital laboratory, they designed a unique course about storytelling in a networked world.

Emphasizing creativity and production-centered forms of learning, “Networked Narratives” (a.k.a. #NetNarr) is a playful connected learning environment for building digital skills and literacies. While the playful spirit of #NetNarr always lives on, we will use this year’s collaboratory to focus profoundly on the impact of artificial intelligence as we question “The Human Nature of Writing.”

We will pursue a synergistic and exploratory approach to new AI writing tools and storytelling, while thinking further about impact and implications. We will also produce public scholarship. Our course will generate weekly reflective writing and expression in multiple forms of networked media. #NetNarr 2023 will culminate in a student forum about the impact of AI on both writing and learning. The scholarly forum will be an open online public event, sponsored by the global Equity Unbound network, and proceedings will be published in the The Arganee Journal.

Open participants can follow along via the #netnarr twitter hashtag.

Learn more about the history of “Networked Narratives” a.k.a. #NetNarr from our January 2021 podcast with Terry Greene and Anne-Marie Scott as an episode of Check the O.L.: Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning.

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The official class site for Dr. Mia Zamora’s Spring 2023 "Networked Narratives" course.