Digital Culture - Undergraduate

Abstract

Idealist thinking marked the development of the Internet and digital technologies, especially in the 1990s. Writers, both academic and popular, imagined a more democratic world where information would be unrestricted, communication would erase space, and technologies would free our time. In many ways, rhetoric about the Internet and other digital...

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Subject Area(s):

Communication and Information Technologies

Resource Type(s):

Syllabus

Class Level(s):

Any Level

Class Size(s):

Any

Learning Goals and Assessments

Learning Goal(s):

1. Students will demonstrate the ability to identify the contradictions of digital technologies.
2. Students will demonstrate the ability to critique the way that power operates with digital media.
3. Students will demonstrate the ability to understand how meaning is created about digital technologies.

Goal Assessment(s):

1. Students will write a digital technology critique in which they identify contradictions in digital technology.
2. All students must write a final research paper in which they critique the way power operates with digital media.
3. Through the semester's midterm, students can show that they learned how meaning is constructed about digital technologies.