New Media: Carleton College Student Podcasts

For a look into how students at Northfield MN’s Carleton College are approaching the world of new media, you might want to check out a recent entry on their professor John Schott’s website, Ratchet Up . Students were assigned to analyze different media–filesharing, mobile internet, wikipedia, blogging, etc.–and record a podcast on their particular project. One of the participants is a philosophy major at Carleton, and this reporter’s son.