Academic Calendar 2017/2018 - Gender and Social Media

GEND 2047  Gender and Social Media

Prerequisites:

Any 18 credits completed.

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

In this course students explore the role of social media in shaping, reflecting, and re-negotiating dominant ideas of gender, using a feminist cultural studies approach. Issues for consideration may include citizen journalism, virtual realities, e-commerce, gaming, cybersex, access and participation (or lack thereof), modes of production, surveillance, (dis)embodiment, media convergence, and the ""digital divide.

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