Courses of Study 2013-2014 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 6113 - Race, Technology, and Visuality

(crosslisted)
(also AAS 6113 , AMST 6113 , FGSS 6113 )
Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with AAS 4130 /AMST 4113 /ARTH 4113 /FGSS 4113 /VISST 4113 .

M. Pham.

This course examines how new information and communication technologies have altered the ways we visualize and perform identities. In this course we will question the popular assumption that the “digital revolution” has made it possible and even desirable to transcend differences by exploring: 1. How racial, gender and other hierarchies have informed debates around techno-literacy, creativity, ownership, visibility and agency; 2. How race and gender are embodied (through visual, sonic and linguistic cues) in the ostensibly disembodied domains of virtual media; 3. How consumers’ racial, ethnic, and gender identities shape their uses of interactive, online, electronic entertainment, and mobile technologies.



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