Digital Cultures examines the complex relationships between digital technologies and human cultures. The course will examine digital technology’s relationships to structures like race, gender,
sexuality, class, and ability focusing on the practices involved in the creation, circulation, and experience of digital technologies. While digital technologies may seem materially new and technically innovative, they are built on longstanding power relations that structure both their potential for existence and use. In short, the “digital” component
of this class is a lens through which we will come to understand larger questions of culture: such as
identity, politics, power, love, war, sex, influence, and status. We will examine modes of researching, understanding, and engaging with digital technologies. Beyond the hype of increased connectivity and the democratization of information,
how can we come to understand digitally-contoured social patterns and processes, some of which are old questions that persist in the study of social life?
- Dozent/in: Siri Lamoureaux
- Dozent/in: Philipp Meinert