Culture, Media, and Data

Students study the agency of media and data in human cultural life with an emphasis on the production of culture and inequality. We excavate assumptions beneath representations of reality in images, track the circulation of mass media across diverse cultures, explore the datafication of personal experience, and engage with projects by indigenous internet activists and native filmmakers. We consider the globalization of media as an agent of difference. And we study the indigenization of data and media as cultural practices and as vertices in wide networks in which native peoples are advancing social agendas in their own terms.