COMM 2220 New Media and Internet Studies

COMM 2220 New Media and Internet Studies
New Media and Internet Studies
An investigation of the histories and theories associated with the Internet and other forms of new media. The main course objectives are to learn how to analyze Internet settings and employ new media methods. Conceptions of new technologies and newness will be theorized and examined. We consider how new media technologies are identified as tools and the ways they are critiqued for producing gendered, racial, and sexual identities. Topics include: afrofuturism, cyberfeminism, science fiction, the web, social networking, fan fiction, hypertext, Internet authorship, and surveillance.
credit hours: 3