Topics in Mass Communication Scholarship

Subtitle: Digital Public Sphere 

6 week session begining June 23rd-July 31st

This is a course that focuses on the transformation of rhetorical inquiry to the digital public sphere.  The aim of the course is to develop strategies of critical inquiry into interactive spaces providing venues of public participation, rhetorical movement, and social change.  The course networks a dozen nodes of discussion in order to interlace topics of critical inquiry.  As fitting for the subject, the course is composed of numerous, short readings (rather than singular in-depth theories).  The aim is to engage discussion in topics related to communicative practices but given new visibility, trajectories, circulation and strategic power due to location in virtual space.