This elective examines how the features of social media platforms function as annotation tools and how users' digital mark-making constitutes a form of civic writing. Quote tweets, hashtags, amended screenshots, reaction videos, stitches, and reply threads are all annotations — notes added to texts that circulate, contest, and construct meaning.
Designed for: Educators, students, digital literacy advocates, and social media users
Reframe social media features as annotation tools
Analyze how digital annotation enables counternarrative and community formation
Critically evaluate how algorithms shape whose annotations are amplified or suppressed
Compose civic digital annotation in response to a discourse you care about
Extends Course 5's Module 2 (Digital Walls & Platform Annotation) and Course 3's analysis of #SharpieActivism. Bridges Pathway B's critical focus with Pathway A's interest in digital tools.