Ethnic Studies
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Ethnic Studies (ETHN )
As of: 07/25/2005, 05:10:00
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Students should go to the Ethnic Studies Department
Office, Social Science Building 201, to obtain
information and department approval for enrollment
in Ethnic Studies 197, 198, and 199.
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519431
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A00 |
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10:00a-12:50p |
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Srinivasan, Ramesh
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Subtitle: Designing Digital Media for Culture
and Community
Digital media has reached a level of
pervasiveness that has begun to fundamentally
alter how we perform our basic social activities.
Technological infrastructures have begun to
mediate and therefore intervene in the
interactions one has with other people, information,
objects, and architecture. The digital divide is a
term that begins to describe the inequities associated
with access to technology, placing certain
communities at risk of even deeper isolation
from new modes of existence and well-being.
These stratifications link to and correlate with
ethnicity. The differences between the "haves
and have-nots" who control and are familiar
with new technologies could potentially accentuate
power dynamics already associated with ethnic
difference. In this course, we work as designers
of new media on questions of culture and community.
We will build on a small yet growing set of research
studying how new media can begin to serve as a
tool of empowerment rather than stratification.
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