What is the digital? How does the digital reconfigure our understandings of truth, the everyday, power, and space? How is the digital like and unlike older media? How have digital studies been organized and institutionalized? This course examines various methodologies and theories through which scholars have engaged digital media in order to think through these questions and others. Our concerns will be multiple. We will consider digital media through a variety of lenses: as a technology, as platforms, as code, as a cultural experience, as a variety of texts, as ideology, and as industrial practice. We will focus primarily on digital media within the context of the U.S., but we will also examine the digital’s global contexts at key junctures, and you are invited to introduce international comparisons from your own experience and interests. A small number of labs will also introduce students to various technical materials and skills.
Upon completion of the class, you will have improved you ability to analyze digital media through aesthetic, formal, and cultural registers. You will also have a solid understanding of the ways in which intellectuals and scholars have grappled with digital media as an emergent and powerful phenomenon, including a variety of methodologies that have been utilized in the study of digital media. Finally, you will better grasp the ways in which digital media shape our experiences of self, other, nation, race, gender, sexuality, temporality, and place.
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