DICE 4020 - Global Digital Cultures

5 credit hours
This course explores the roles of digital technology in other cultures and in the process of globalization. Students examine the possibilities and limits of new technologies to reproduce and disrupt culture. Students also explore how specific technologies perpetuate and/or disrupt local and global markets, nationalist identity, and cultural reproduction. Topics include globalization, cultural imperialism, micro-lending, national firewalls, digital witnessing, “right to be forgotten” laws, digital propaganda, and global activism.

Registration Restriction(s): NCS students only
Prerequisite Course/s: DICE 3000, 3050
Terms Typically Offered: Variable: this course offered two quarters per year