Global Technology & Digital Culture
Examines how digital media, devices, and networks reshape global cultures, analyzing local differences in technology use and the impact on offline community experiences.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Analyze global technologies, industries, and infrastructures from a historical and cultural standpoint.
Describe concepts related to cultural globalization and transnational flows, and explain how digital technology impacts them.
Explain how the design of specific digital technologies and access to them can lead to imbalances in social power.
Evaluate how global adoption of technologies leads to changes in local cultural practices.
Analyze concepts such as participatory culture and consumption and apply them to social and cultural contexts across the globe.
Analyze how existing relationships of social power (for example race, gender, and class) can be exacerbated or resisted through digital technologies.
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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.50 GPA, 73.1% A/AB (n=26 letter grades).
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Topics
- Digital media, devices, and networks in cultural fabric
- Meaning of 'global' in technologically facilitated changes
- Impact of technologies on offline community experiences by identity markers
- Cultural globalization and transnational flows
Skills
- Analyzing global technologies, industries, and infrastructures from a historical and cultural standpoint
- Describing concepts of cultural globalization and transnational flows and explaining digital technology impacts
- Explaining how digital technology design and access lead to imbalances in social power
- Applying concepts of participatory culture and consumption to global social and cultural contexts
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