Media & Social Change in the Digital Age

Catalog description

This course uses an inquiry-based approach that is centered on contemporary questions affecting individuals and cultures centered on social and personal transformation and social justice. This course serves as an inquiry into human cultures as socially constructed realities that form between media, technology, science, art, and spirituality. Through the study of theories of consciousness, scientific studies, new media programs and theories, and other cultural artifacts, this course traces how new media and artificial intelligence challenge our understanding of what it means to be human, and how social engagement in the digital age is altered by the acceleration of time and the collapse of space.