HUMA 25203 - Digital Networks:Social Media and Public Spheres

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University of Chicago

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Description:

Online and offline, digital media generate societal networks that transform our spatial and temporal environments for living and working. In this postindustrial relation of technology and society, digital networks reconfigure our basic cultural capacity: how we communicate with each other and ourselves, in public and private, as well as our cultural production and civic participation. Assuming that we not only shape our media but we're also shaped by it, this course investigates instantaneous mass self-communication and global information exchange in practices of social media, online games, and citizen media. Our critiques will examine 'digita l literacies ' developed and used in hypermediated environments with regard to media convergence, participatory culture, and collective intelligenc e. M. Browning. Autumn.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

Phone Number:

(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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