Cult-D. Digital Network: Produce, Play or Protest? Ulises Mejias, SUNY Oswego This Seminar is available to all students. No background required. Recommended for students interested in media and cultural studies As participation in social and civic life becomes increasingly mediated by information and communication technologies, online networks act as templates for organizing society, actively arranging individuals into structures that shape how they interact with the world. This seminar takes a critical look at the phenomenon of digital networks and their impact on society. The course includes a review of social network theories and an exploration of issues of control, participation, surveillance and production as they relate to digital networks. Through lectures, discussion and collaborative exercises, this hybrid (online and face-to-face) course involves students in asking: What kinds of relationships does the network prescribe? How are identities formed within the network? What does the network make possible or impossible for the individual to know or experience? What new models of contribution and participation does the network engender? What new forms of inequality and alienation are produced? Topics: 1. Understanding networks 2. Networks as social architectures 3. Network science 4. Algorithms and Big Data 5. Network economics 6. Network politics 7. Digital media and global protest movements nyi.spb.ru/seminars/cultural/cultural_17.html
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