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AP/CMDS 3551 3.00
Advanced Issues in Digital Media and Culture
This course investigates some of the transformative effects of digital communications technologies within realms of culture as diverse as politics, romance and mating, industry, medical and pharmaceutical practice, commerce, finance, the arts, scientific enquiry, and contemporary warfare. Relevant to class discussions are phenomena such as world order transformation, cybernetics and automation, interoperability, databases, computer modeling, information overload, artificial intelligence, virtuality, networks, social networking, biometrics, and the global positioning system. The course concludes by addressing questions regarding what constitutes the good digital life.