04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W
Online
Section Information for Fall 2020
This course will examine the cultural, social, political, economic, and aesthetic implications of social media. We will use the framework of platform studies to examine the ways in which users’ everyday practices are constrained by social media platforms – via code, laws, norms, etc. – as well as the ways that users subvert platform constraints and repurpose platform architecture for their own purposes. We will examine key themes in contemporary debates around digital media writ large, such as echo chambers, personalization, surveillance, censorship, radicalization, toxicity, monopoly, and spectacle. Throughout, we will engage numerous case studies highlighting key features of and scholarship about a diverse set of flagship social media platforms, like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Spotify, and Twitch.
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Credits: 3
Enrollment is limited to Graduate level students.
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