2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog

CM 253 Digital Culture

Considers digital and technologically mediated environments as "mass media" in the tradition of film radio or television. Using a variety of approaches including historical sociological economic technological cultural and aesthetic the course looks at questions such as how does the Internet codify reality? How are communities both created and thwarted? What are the characteristics of the global media culture? Readings screenings and written assignments required.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

CM 101 Introduction to Media Culture