This course explores past, present, and emerging practices and trends in digital culture. We will consider a range of digital tools, platforms, and cultures, closely examining how such tools and practices influence how we create, share, and preserve texts and other cultural artifacts.
This semester, we’ll engage with historical and contemporary theories of digital culture, and you’ll get to practice creating your own digital artifacts.
As we read and explore ideas of digital culture together, we’ll dip in and out of many types of discourse and media, sampling theory and critique on a range of topics– from social networking platforms, open source principles, fandoms and gaming communities, to crowdsourcing and crowdfunding initiatives, vlogs, blogs, web series, podcasts, and social justice movements.