Current Debates in Media

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
1	Introduction
2	Ideologies, Stereotypes and Agency	Hollywood Movies, Election Coverage, News Reports, Publicity, Social Representation of Identity (Race, Gender, Class)
3	Propaganda, Censorship and Net Neutrality	Propaganda or Censorship in China / Russia / Middle East, Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Net Neutrality
4	Violence in Media and Video Games	Violence and Women, Censoring Violence, Violent Video Games
5	From Big Data to Big Brother: Surveillance and Privacy in the Information Age	Drones, Google, etc.
6	Digital Hacktivism, Civil Disobedience and Piracy	WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden
7	Digital Rebellion, Direct Democracy and Cyber Left Guest: Lara Baladi, Egyptian-Lebanese artist and activist	Occupy Wall Street, Idle No More, Protests in China / Greece / Madrid, Protests Against Police Violence
8	GamerGate Controversy	AAA Video Game (Fable, Lara Croft, Grand Theft Auto), Indie Games
9	From Gamification to Gamepocalypse Guest: Sebastian Deterding, Professor at Northeastern University	Nike+, Mint, Foursquare, Fold it, Serious Games, Advergames
10	Socialization and Intimacy in Digital Environments	Cyberbullying, Dating Websites
11	One-on-one Appointments to Discuss the Final Paper
12	Collective Intelligence versus the Expert Paradigm	Specialized Information Sites, Crowdsourcing, Millennium Project, Second Life
13	Participatory Culture, Intellectual Property and Media Panic	Memes, Creative Commons, Micro-celebrities, Lifestreamers
14	Artificial Intelligence, Posthumanism and Technological Apocalypse    Dissertation due	Dystopian Films, Smartphone Applications, Robot, Cyberterrorism