Ethnography of Digital Media

3 Hours

Investigate new digital technologies and their impact on social worlds, survey old media paradigms (the novel, the newspaper), and explore new social kinds (the troll, the hashtag, the GIF archive, the emoticon, the TikTok challenge). Focus on the "practical" contributions to conversations about media, but also consider classical theoretical text to develop a rigorous understanding of new media forms, and to design ethnographic data collection methods for projects that can answer a variety of questions about digitally mediated interaction. Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies 388 (Topic: Ethnography of Digtl Media) and 388 (Topic 3) may not both be counted.