Digital Media Studies

Catalog description

Digital media technologies have radically shifted U.S. society and culture. Almost all forms of media are now digital, even broadcast television and movie theatres now use digital technologies. To understand our new media landscape, we must understand technology and computation in addition to media theory. Provides the interdisciplinary tools necessary for analyzing digital media. Outlines foundational concepts with particular emphasis on analyzing hardware and interface design and understanding computational elements such as algorithms. Then examines these issues by exploring algorithm advertising and marketing as well as interactivity and collaboration in videogame spaces.