Screen Studies is a site where film, television, media and cultural studies come together to address a digital age. We?ll track the evolving forms of screens alongside the changing nature of our relationships with them. We begin by addressing what is specific to each screen medium, and then expand beyond the screen to look at the cultures that form around screens and their impact on our daily lives, politics, and identities. This course will survey para-social relationships with branded YouTube celebrities, pop-cultures, subcultures, fan-cultures, and cancel-cultures.

This course combines reading and discussion with application of theoretically informed methods in the study of everyday social interaction. We will: 1) Read and discuss representative studies of social interaction and communicative behavior in cultural context. 2) Do graduated classroom and field exercises to assemble methodological tools and accumulate data for your final paper. The final paper will be based on accumulated data - especially recordings and transcripts - from your field site. Satisfies the Integrative Experience requirement for BA-Comm majors.

Algorithms and data increasingly power our private and civic life. Companies, nonprofits, and governments have invested heavily in data mining, the bulk collection of user behavior data from web platforms to understand public opinion and to forecast trends. A lot of fashionable terms, such as artificial intelligence and big data, are being thrown around these days.

This is a stand-alone independent study designed by the student and faculty sponsor that involves frequent interaction between instructor and student. Qualitative and quantitative enrichment must be evident on the proposed contract before consent is given to undertake the study.

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