Spring 2027

New Media and Society

New Media and Society explores political, economic and cultural relationships between new media of communication and society, including history, race, gender, class, globalization, national identity and everyday life.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jeremy Morris4.1/5

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Fall 2014: 3.28 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.66 GPA, 83.9% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Link key terms and course concepts to contemporary debates on technology and new media

  • Use a “new” media technology, while reflecting on the adoption process

  • Document the history and adoption of a new media technology, paying attention to its cultural implications

  • Demonstrate facility with theory and methodologies from the field of new media studies

  • Apply concepts, ideas and arguments from research in new media studies toward an original analysis of a new media object/technology

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
COMARTS 459

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Professors

Spring 2027

Jeremy Morris

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Raw average: 4.45/5 from 22 quality ratings. The adjusted rating blends this with the UW review average (3.66/5), weighted as 20 additional ratings. Smaller samples stay closer to that average. Each captured review is counted once in the prior; this does not correct who chooses to leave a review.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2013: 3.39 GPA, 63.4% A/AB (n=41 letter grades); Fall 2013: 3.17 GPA, 41.7% A/AB (n=24 letter grades); Fall 2014: 3.28 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JEREMY MORRIS is recorded teaching in Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Fall 2014. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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LEC 001Classroom Instruction0 / 400

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2014: 3.28 GPA, 56.5% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.66 GPA, 83.9% A/AB (n=56 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.61 GPA, 81.8% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Political, economic and cultural relationships between new media of communication and society
  • Issues of history, race, gender, class, globalization, national identity and everyday life
  • History and adoption of a new media technology and its cultural implications
  • Theory and methodologies from the field of new media studies

Skills

  • Linking key terms and course concepts to contemporary debates on technology and new media
  • Using a “new” media technology while reflecting on the adoption process
  • Documenting the history and adoption of a new media technology with attention to cultural implications
  • Demonstrating facility with theory and methodologies from the field of new media studies
  • Applying concepts, ideas and arguments from new media studies research toward an original analysis of a new media object or technology

Grades

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COMARTS 459 · Spring 2027

New Media and Society

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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