CMST&MM 717 / Youth, New Media and Culture

3 unit(s)

Prerequisite(s): Must be enrolled in Graduate Plan in Communciation & Multimedia or CNMCS

This course explores the relationship between youth and new media and from critical media studies, critical political economy, and feminist studies perspectives. The course considers how childhood and youth are constructed and experienced via the production and reproduction of social, cultural, political and individual lives via new media. Questions around the power of self-expression, self-representation, and youth social activism will be investigated alongside investigations of social phenomenon involving new media. How media represent youth and technology will also be addressed. Attention will be paid to how gender, race/ethnicity, sexuality, class, abledness, and other positionalities structure youth’s engagement with new media technology. The class will engage in debates around digital literacy and digital youth/childhood.