Social Media and Digital Cultures examines how social media platforms shape culture, identity, relationships, politics, and everyday life at both local and global levels. Rather than treating social media as neutral tools, this course centers platform design, algorithms, economies, and user practices to understand how digital environments influence behavior, power, and meaning-making. Students analyze social media across social contexts while developing critical media literacy skills related to misinformation, digital labor, and platform ethics. Through hands-on projects, case studies, and reflective writing, students connect theory to lived digital experience and explore how social media both reflects and reshapes society.
ENGL 097 which may be taken concurrently or ENGL 101 ready.