See Schedule of Classes for current section offerings. Topics deal with new media and related issues.

This course focuses on “new media cities” – real and imagined. From the early metaphors of the internet, to the technologically mediated smart city; from the city form as a media technology, to techno-imaginaries of future cities, this course asks students to engage with the significance of new media in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, and the city as a new-media-oriented space. We will look at cities in video games; architectural design and modeling; spaces of new media art; online worlds and virtual communities; digital archives; urban simulations, and other new media contexts. Students will have the opportunity to research and imagine their own new media cities, as well as developing critical interdisciplinary awareness of new media and media studies, urban studies, cultural and digital geographies, game studies, and associated fields.

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