MSCR 6320: Digital Technologies and Global Society

Department: Communication Studies
Concentration: Media & Screen Studies
Institution: Northeastern University
Term: Fall 2026

Catalog Description
Presents key empirical and conceptual foundations to provide tools to address the complex challenges that digital technologies pose in a global context of social relations of power. Emphasizes the origins of the contemporary internet in imperial and military history and explores alternative possibilities that never came to be realized. A series of case studies, drawn primarily from the Global South, analyze power dynamics to highlight the pressing ethical and political questions raised by cutting-edge technologies.