Let me explain. One week the class read Eden Medina\u2019s award-winning book, Cybernetic Revolutionaries<\/em><\/a>. As with any interesting work, Medina\u2019s contains difficult concepts and slippery ideas. Articulating these ideas is crucial to fully understanding them, but sometimes as we discuss books in class overly-verbose articulation slips into narrative and endless example. While narrative and example are useful tools with which to think, they are a means to the end of understanding, a way of getting to the kernel of insight that one eventually hopes to highlight.<\/p>\n That\u2019s where the comics come in. We had the class discussion (all 2+ hours of it), and then it was time to nail down the kernels of insight, stating them as compellingly and concisely as possible. In order to facilitate this, I asked students to use a comic-making app<\/a> for their IIT-issued iPads. <\/a>Their goal was to make a \u201cone page\u201d comic that crystallized a point of their choosing from Cybernetic Revolutionaries<\/em>. In particular, I asked them to keep in mind how the STS theorists we read so far <\/a>(Winner, Latour, Pinch, Kline, and Balabanian) might be brought to bear on the text to create or clarify their main insight.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/mariehicks.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CyberneticRevsComicBookApp.jpg\")
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