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- Course name
- New Media, Culture and Society
- Institution
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Instructor
- Veronica Paredes
- Wikipedia Expert
- Adam (Wiki Ed)
- Subject
- Media and Cinema Studies
- Course dates
- 2016-01-20 – 2016-05-11
- Approximate number of student editors
- 45
Despite persistent utopian promises that ever faster and “smarter” computing will make our lives better and easier, technology remains influenced by social and cultural practices at every level. From the infrastructural to the intimate, technology is designed with specific audiences and aims. In this course, you will learn how to interpret how these messages about technology are communicated in and through media. This means that you will be asked to consider not only what is represented in the media texts that we will review throughout this semester, you will also learn how to interpret media forms as technology embedded in culture and society.