Ithaca College

TVR320: Topics in Media Technology: The Seduction and Surveillance of New Media (ICC WI) CRN# 10078 focuses on how the seduction of new media (mobile, social, web, etc.) has led to some unanticipated outcomes that affect our personal life experience in both utopic and dystopic ways. 

The widespread use of new media has led to the transformation of privacy and the most comprehensive surveillance state that has ever existed. Yet, we are also able to use these new media tools to collaborate and communicate in remarkably positive ways never before possible. Course topics include privacy and surveillance, community and collaboration, changing notions of time, effects on self and social relationships, copyright, governance, wearable media and the internet of things, and more. Course content is relevant to a wide variety of student interests, including the social and natural sciences, business and economics, legal issues, the humanities, etc.

Course work: discussing thought-provoking questions in the online forum, along with 2 interesting writing assignments that fulfill the ICC WI, one of which focusses on you own media use, and the other is a topic related to new media that you are interested in. 

All majors and levels are welcome to enroll in the Summer Session (May) section of this course; students outside of the TVR and Emerging Media majors should use the normal course request process. The course will count for the ICC WI requirement for all students, and will also count as a core class for TVR and Emerging Media majors.

Contact Dr. Rosen at drosen@ithaca.edu with any questions regarding course content or override information.