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Instructor: Lester Faigley The release of the first Web browser, Mosaic, in late 1993 led quickly to the widespread publication of words, images, and sounds in digital formats. Digital technologies have profoundly influenced all media of communication, changing how we talk, listen, read, write, and view, but not in the ways we might have anticipated. As people increasingly spend their time engaged with digitial technologies--working, communicating, learning, and playing--digital media increasingly redefine live human relationships. Through such new phenomena as peer-to-peer file sharing, identity theft, blogging, Google, Craigslist, YouTube, Wikipedia, and Facebook, digital media have also upset established culture and have led to confusion and conflict. This course will serve as an introduction to theories of digital media, new and otherwise, with attention to the pre-history of the Internet systems we're now familiar with, the theoretical modes of reading that such technologies have helped give birth to, and the social and political effects that these technologies have had. A syllabus and other information about the course are available on Blackboard. Requirements:
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