Abstract

This course serves as an advanced seminar in critical methods as applied to media and digital studies. This includes analyses of both text and platform. As a part of our inquiry we will first consider what it means to engage in critical work, situation our work within the larger field. We will then explore different approaches to this work, including production, audience research, and discourse analysis. We then consider methods specific to digital studies including CTDA and digital ethnography. Through careful analysis and play we will consider how the digital humanities allow us to ask new questions in new ways. Throughout the term we will continue to develop our own ethical guidelines for our work building on the work done in internet studies, critical race studies, feminist and queer studies, critical communication and philosophy. Finally, we will consider how the digital positions critical work for public audiences.