Digital technologies have shaped the playing field upon which much interaction takes place between humans, and between humans and machines. This course will combine theories of the digital with case studies from different cultural groups to explore how humans and technologies are co-constituted within and across digital platforms of interaction. The course will pay particular attention to tensions and conflicts with regard to race, gender, and disability. We will explore dynamics on sites such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, and online contexts such as texting, dating apps, and gaming. We will discuss how the particular characteristics of digital technologies impact human beings in terms of their identities, politics, relationships, memory, privacy, and death. The goal is to become more aware of how the special properties of the "digital" are influencing humanity, and giving rise to what some scholars call the "posthuman."Social Science and History (SSHIS) courses develop students' critical thinking skills through the study of history and the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology, economics, political science, anthropology, geography), as well as through contemporary interdisciplines that draw heavily on these fields (e.g. feminist and queer studies, media studies, urban studies, ethnic studies). Subject matter in these courses contributes to students' cultural literacy while instructional materials and classroom assignments introduce basic research problems and techniques.

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