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This seminar will critically explore the identities, roles, and social functions of students and universities. Through a cultural studies lens, we will examine the ways in which universities have been sites of power, knowledge production, and ideological struggle. We will interrogate the relationship between the student as an individual and the university as a cultural institution, exploring issues such as education, labour, identity, discipline, and resistance. And we will study a number of student movements and student protests to understand how students in various locations and contexts have imagined and demanded different universities and, by extension, different societies.

This course examines various critical approaches to digital culture, drawing on critical theory, media studies, and ethnographic research to understand how digital technologies shape—and are shaped by—cultural practices, power dynamics, and identities and to examine the impact of the digital on everyday life, work, surveillance and policing, identity, creativity, politics and more.