DGST 101:
Intro to Digital Studies

Studying digital culture, practicing digital creativity, and using digital methodologies.

We're nearing the end of the first week of this class. Your working hard on the tasks you've chosen for your "Digital Creativity" module, so for the final day of new material for the week, I want to take a unified look at digital creativity in some different manifestations.

Now that you've got your domain set up and are hopefully getting comfortable with Slack, it's time to get started on the real work of the semester, exploring the first of three categories of modules. In this first case, the focus is on "digital creativity." Modules are self-guided, self-paced, and s...

Now that you've got your domain registered, it's time to add content! Today's activities will be about setting up your site for posting content, reflecting on your existing digital identity, and thinking about our class as a community.

Let's begin! This is the first day of class, and this post contains your first major task to complete. Your website will be a fundamental part of this class, so your first major task is to get that ball rolling by registering that domain and creating some content on it. This is a pretty important first step, so let's get to it with some things to read and some things to do.