ENGL 380 - Identity and Social Media

3 Credits

Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course explores social media platforms from a cultural perspective, exploring this rapidly changing interactive environment where users are actively producing, consuming, and engaging with content. Students will examine the role social media plays in crafting both self-identity and social relationships and its role in shaping public discourse. In particular, this course will focus on the formation of identities based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity and sexuality, and further, look at the formation of activist movements, and the building of communal narratives and networks online today.