FMST 102. Convergence

This honors seminar explores the cultures and content of the contemporary mediascape through formal, technological, and political lenses, reading emergent paradigms such as virality, paratextuality, and collective intelligence against equivalent historical moments of media evolution. Particular attention will be paid to the concepts of “the digital”; rhetorics of revolution and continuity; and the intersection of information, entertainment, and capitalism within a dominant episteme of new media. Course majors and other students with relevant background can apply for instructor’s approval to take the seminar.
Humanities.
2 credits.
Eligible for DGHU
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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