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MIT 3401F/G   Special Topics in MIT: The Politics of Digital Media

Course Description
The increasing ubiquity and accessibility of online digital media has led to popular and academic discourse that extols their liberating and even revolutionary potential. Others, however, have noted how this discourse masks the exploitation and surveillance of users and inhibits—rather than promotes—civic participation. This course examines current issues and theories concerning "user-led" sites, social networking sites, and other user-generated media such as citizen journalism, and interrogates the current relationship between digital media, Internet freedom, and democracy.

This course is no longer active. Please contact FIMS Undergraduate Student Services, fims@uwo.ca, for more information.



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