ENG 3710 - Critical Digital Media Theory

Goals: To have students intervene in current scholarly debates on how digital media has transformed, or should transform, our conceptions of politics, communication, art, law, and life.

Content: Whatever 21st century technologies – or human reactions to them – are most scandalous or interesting when the class meets, which are studied via current scholarship in the digital humanities, drawing primarily from the traditions of rhetoric, media, and cultural theory.

Taught: Once per year

Prerequisite: FYW 1120 or its equivalent

Credits: 4