AMST118 PO - Digital American Studies

When Offered: Last offered Spring 2023
Instructor(s): W. Boyer
Credit: 1

This course examines American Studies methodologies and topics that have accompanied the emergence of new media technologies in recent decades. We will approach such topics as online political movements, representation and identity, algorithms and justice, and issues of sovereignty and surveillance, with special attention to the kinds of methodologies that prove effective to understand them. We will also examine how American Studies intersects with the digital humanities, digital ethnography, electronic archives, and online pedagogy, to better comprehend how new media changes what has always already been an interdisciplinary field. Assignments will allow us to think critically about how online terrains and protocols change the relationships between identity, power, and agency.

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3;