MC23: Digital Media

This course introduces students to the study of digital media. Moving from video games to alternative art installations, from cyberpunk fiction and films to social media sites, it focuses on the theory, history, politics and aesthetics of digital media. Special attention will be paid to the tensions between our perceptions of technology and its actual operations and to technology’s intersections with social/cultural formations (gender, sexuality, race, global flows) and with issues of control and freedom.