Digital technologies are now deeply intertwined with human experience. We live digital lives. At the same time, tensions exist when engaging in various levels of mediation, which are nuanced and diverse. The course will explore how digital technologies impact our visual engagement with the world and our perception of ourselves, our memories, society's prospects for publicity and privacy, and individuals' fears of social invisibility. Questions that the course will explore include: What are the cultural values that are used to create digital media? How are these values made manifest visually? How do conceptualizations of the self and sociality change across different types of visual media? We will examine visual engagements from a wide variety of sources including social media, videos, advertisements, films, television programs, photographs, ethnographic documentary, and performance art. Through ethnographic exercises, critical readings of visual material, and individual engagement with new media, theorists and practitioners will develop an ability to participate in and contribute to scholarly conversations surrounding the visuality of digital theories, interaction, and practice.

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