CULT 824: Internet Cultures

Examines internet cultures and their cultural, social, political, economic, and aesthetic implications. Introduces students to scholarly fields like internet studies, social media studies, platform studies, video game studies, critical AI and data studies, influencer studies, celebrity studies, or software studies. Includes traditional emphases from cultural studies, potentially including political economy, women’s and gender studies, race and ethnic studies, queer theory, postcolonialism and decolonialism, ecocriticism, affect theory, and more. Students will explore the ways that communities form online and how they impact their constituents, the way that identities are explored, formed, and represented online, the ideology and political economy of internet technologies, the way that internet technologies shape content creation, and other ways that the internet shapes culture and culture shapes the internet.Offered by Cultural Studies. May not be repeated for credit.