The instructor of record for the course, I'm nonetheless hoping to learn quite a bit from the class as well. I want to be able to think more globally and holistically about the relationships between the various artifacts and practices we call "new media," but I'm already wondering just how possible that is to do: there are so many distinct and related but not totalizing characteristics of these various media that it seems unlikely we'll develop any kind of unified theory about them.

Short of completing that project, I hope to begin to see the connections between and among specific media artifacts and practices, as well as deepen my knowledge of them, especially of video games, which I have known too little about for too long.