Social Media and Culture
Rutgers University
This course takes a critical approach to understanding new media environments, especially concerning “social media,” “participatory culture,” “convergence,” and “interactivity.” The course seeks to situate these ideas in broader social, political, and historical contexts. We examined the role of social media and Web 2.0 in aspects of cultural life like friendship, intimacy, labor, celebrity, power, gender, race, sexuality, activism, and surveillance. The course Tumblr is linked below.