Globalization and New Media

This course will introduce you to some basic concepts and debates on Globalization. It will then address the ways in which new media and technology practices are informed by, as well as, inform globalization (particularly issues of global inequality). This course adopts a CRITICAL and THEORETICAL view on globalization and its relation with new media. This is to say that contrary to unreflexive popular opinion in which we see globalization only in celebratory ways, this course will equip you to see globalization in terms of the various inequalities it produces yet the promise it can hold. The course tries to get us to think of the barriers produced by globalization, the kinds of new identities being produced, the links between contemporary globalization and earlier forms of colonialism, labor exploitation in media practices in globalization, and so on.