Digital Society

Catalog description

Technological advances have created a dynamic and ever-changing landscape for social experiences in life online. This course will focus on the shift from the industrial age to today’s information age dominated by digital technology. Using a social science lens, students will examine the way technology has increasingly shaped individual and social experiences. The course traces the establishment of the early internet to current trends in social media and explores society’s responses to changing technology. Students examine the way social movements, political participation, and social support have been shaped by new opportunities for people to connect digitally.