THE WEB IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS: RACE GENDER, AND AFFLUENCE

This course seeks a focused understanding of the Web’s ability to liberate some while it restrains others in terms of rhetoric, agency, and voice. By examining topics such as the digital divide; composing race, gender, and sexuality online; the Web as a social practice; and e-Rhetorics of resistance (i.e., online countercultural communities), this course queries the rhetorical nature of digital spaces as well as the attendant concerns of literacy, agency, and power.