First-Year Seminars 110CY - Cyberpunks in the Digital Age

For several decades now, journalists, artists, and scholars have attempted to articulate the ways the Internet and digital culture has transformed how we live and think. Examining novels, movies, blogs, and other digital media, we will consider how the digital age shapes our understandings of gender and sexuality and how notions of femininity might help us define 'being digital.' As we develop reading and writing skills, we will also experiment in groups with new digital tools such as distant reading, advanced searching, and media remixing. Topics may include the Internet and brain science, avatars and fembots, virtual relationships, as well as cyber-bullying, hacking, and networking.

First-year students only, by placement.