TOPICS: BODIES AND DIGITAL MEDIA in Fall 2024 (CM2091A)

This course will examine the significance of digital media and technologies in how bodies are performed, perceived and policed online and offline. It will focus on politics of representation, examining Hollywood’s narrative of bodily enhancements and comparing it with qualitative scholarship on the everyday experience of a range of bodies interacting through and with digital technologies and media such as, voice recognition, augmented reality, virtual reality, and assistive AI. Students will learn to interrogate gendered and able-bodied narratives, challenge existing paradigms and re-examine the blurring between facts and fiction.