Restricted to first semester first year students in the College of Arts and Humanities.

Stories (narratives) shape and are shaped by infrastructures of thought,which are heavily influenced by media. In this course, we will consider how an increasingly complex media ecology is upending possibilities for shared narratives, authentic connection and collectiveaction. Bringing together ideas from sociology, rhetoric, philosophy, and political econ omy, we will discuss how algorithms are both useful and dangerous and explore how AI is transforming both narrative and social connection.