COMM 425 - Digital Cultures

Units: 4
Identifies how computers, networks, and media technologies reproduce, reinforce, and rework cultural trends, norms, and values. Addresses media innovation and debates over social computing, artificial intelligence, virtual communities, virtual reality. Considers alternative ways to imagine and forecast emerging communication technologies.

Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Describe key theories of consumer culture and the social construction of identity;
Critically examine the role of digital technologies and cultures in shaping consumer practices of identity construction;
Theorize the relationship between political economies of consumption and the cultural shaping of identities.