CMAC 210S · also ISS 212S, VMS 210S, WRITING 210S
Global Digital Media: Critical and Comparative Approaches to Information Technologies
Hugo Felipe Idarraga franco
Description from DukeHub
Responding to recent trends in digital-media related fields, this course draws upon critical concepts and comparative approaches that deal with contemporary information and communication technologies (ICTs) across national and disciplinary boundaries. This course will develop Media Studies and Science & Technology Studies inspired analyses that connect the medium-specific and aesthetic qualities of digital media with historical and socioeconomic factors shaping their production, circulation, and reception. It examines how digital media reproduce or complicate physical and social boundaries, and how concepts of race, gender, and class are embedded in the operation of digital technologies.
Skills
No skill passed the confidence bar. Weak matches go to review instead of this page: an AI pass that has to quote the description, then a person.
AI-resilient: 1 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- No: Judgment someone is accountable for
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 15 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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