Social Media and Power

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Examines social media experiences with a focus on perspectives from critical theory. Covers a breadth of topics in the subject area, from doomsurfing and slacktivism to platform politics and cyberwar, and encourages students to adopt key methodologies and critical approaches, including ethnography, discursive and rhetorical analysis, semiotics, science and technology studies, and the critique of ideology. Prerequisite: 4.0 university credits.