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WMST 240 - Gender in Popular Media

Semester Offered: Fall
1 1 unit(s)
Topic for 2019/20a: Gender and the Digital. In this course we explore how the gendered body is represented, consumed and (dis)embodied through digital media. Beginning with an interrogation of our own colonized modes of media consumption, we proceed to acknowledge the first coders and digital laborers, specifically the work of women of color, cisgender women and queer pioneers. Turning to media processes and interfaces, we examine how gender, race and class are transversally present in issues such as the digital divide/generation/revolution, media-making, algorithms, surveillance, revenge porn, social media, cyberbullying and gaming. Interrogating our assumptions about the analog, the digital and cyberspace, we study constructions of avatars, hackers, cyborgs and androids in texts such as Ex MachinaWestworld, Isa, Alita and others. We end by analyzing the future of gender in a post-media, post-human era, on the cusp of the singularity. Assignments offer students opportunities to theorize gender and the digital through both writing and multi-media projects. Eva Woods.

Prerequisite(s): WMST 130 .

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS



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