Honors College 499DZ - HonorsThesis-DigiComm&GloblSoc

Digital communication can bring dispersed peoples and ideas closer together more rapidly than traditional mass communication, but it can also reinforce structures of domination, often along social differences, across the world more intensely. In this course, students will write an honors thesis that examines some aspect of the fraught relationship between digital communication and global society. We will ask how the impact of the new digital public sphere raises issues around free speech, privacy, information, and economic policy, among others. Centering the extent to which digital communication might serve public interest both at home and abroad, we will investigate both the possibilities and the limits of communication technology in society understood in a global perspective.

Sr & Jr COMCOL SOCIOL majors Students will meet in seminar format with the professor on Mondays. An additional time block is reserved on Wednesdays for students to 1) interact with the professor and each other online, 2) meet individually with the professor, or 3) meet in small groups.