Sections offered SPRING 2019:
#30703 |
ROBERT DOBLER |
F 10:10am-11:00am |
SY 137 |
CLASS NOTES: IUB GenEd A&H credit; COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
This section open to Hutton Honors College students only. For permission to enroll in above class, email rsteele@indiana.edu and include university ID number.
This course is an interdisciplinary approach to emergent community identities in online contexts. We will look at such varied online phenomena as memes and memetic genres, the rise and consequences of subcultural trolling, memorials created on social networking sites, the folklore of video games, evolving narrative forms on the web, and the linkages between participatory culture and internet fandoms.
Students who complete this course will be able to demonstrate more acute digital literacies built on nuanced understandings of the use of memes and social networking sites in the contemporary debates of “fake news” and the spread of misinformation. You will gain the critical thinking skills required to navigate and analyze digital forms that, while often innocuous on the surface, can reveal deeper layers of contemporary culture. You will learn to “read” YouTube videos, fan-created mashups and remixes of pop cultural artifacts, and to develop a deeper appreciation for the customs and beliefs (both affirming and marginalizing) that find expression among communities of gamers. We will also spend time contemplating and analyzing our own digital identities through assignments in which will call on you to analyze vernacular digital artifacts pulled from your own everyday experiences of the internet.