| SES # | TOPICS | STUDENT PRESENTATIONS |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Ideologies, Stereotypes and Agency | Hollywood Movies, Election Coverage, News Reports, Publicity, Social Representation of Identity (Race, Gender, Class) |
| 3 | Propaganda, Censorship and Net Neutrality | Propaganda or Censorship in China / Russia / Middle East, Coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Net Neutrality |
| 4 | Violence in Media and Video Games | Violence and Women, Censoring Violence, Violent Video Games |
| 5 | From Big Data to Big Brother: Surveillance and Privacy in the Information Age | Drones, Google, etc. |
| 6 | Digital Hacktivism, Civil Disobedience and Piracy | WikiLeaks, Edward Snowden |
| 7 |
Digital Rebellion, Direct Democracy and Cyber Left Guest: Lara Baladi, Egyptian-Lebanese artist and activist | Occupy Wall Street, Idle No More, Protests in China / Greece / Madrid, Protests Against Police Violence |
| 8 | GamerGate Controversy | AAA Video Game (Fable, Lara Croft, Grand Theft Auto), Indie Games |
| 9 |
From Gamification to Gamepocalypse Guest: Sebastian Deterding, Professor at Northeastern University | Nike+, Mint, Foursquare, Fold it, Serious Games, Advergames |
| 10 | Socialization and Intimacy in Digital Environments | Cyberbullying, Dating Websites |
| 11 | One-on-one Appointments to Discuss the Final Paper | |
| 12 | Collective Intelligence versus the Expert Paradigm | Specialized Information Sites, Crowdsourcing, Millennium Project, Second Life |
| 13 | Participatory Culture, Intellectual Property and Media Panic | Memes, Creative Commons, Micro-celebrities, Lifestreamers |
| 14 | Artificial Intelligence, Posthumanism and Technological Apocalypse Dissertation due | Dystopian Films, Smartphone Applications, Robot, Cyberterrorism |
