Fordham University
Privacy & Surveillance (DTEM4440) An examination of surveillance technologies from everyday devices to state-level infrastructure, and their effects on society, culture, law, and individual rights. Students develop theoretical frameworks for understanding privacy and counter-surveillance. Syllabi: Spring 2026 · Summer 2025 · Spring 2025 · Summer 2024 · Summer 2023 · Fall 2022 · Summer 2022 · Spring 2022 · Summer 2021 · Spring 2021 · Summer 2020 · Summer 2019 · Spring 2019 · Summer 2018 · Spring 2018
Digital Cultures (DTEM 1402) An exploration of the cultures situated in and shaped by digital media platforms and devices. Topics include identity, participatory culture, interactivity, convergence, and the ways technology alters how people express cultural belonging. Syllabi: Spring 2026 · Spring 2025 · Fall 2024 · Spring 2024 · Spring 2023 · Fall 2022 · Fall 2021 · Fall 2017
Introduction to Digital Technology & Emerging Media (DTEM 1401) A comprehensive overview of digital media evolution, from early internet to social platforms and big data, with a focus on how technology shapes identity, knowledge, and power. Syllabi: Fall 2025 · Fall 2022 · Spring 2022 · Spring 2021 · Fall 2020 · Fall 2019 · Fall 2018 · Spring 2019 · Fall 2017
Resistance & Global Activism (DTEM 3500) An introduction to the theories and practices of collective action, social movements, and digital resistance. Students apply frameworks from sociology, political science, and media studies to historical and contemporary protest movements. Syllabi: Summer 2026 · Summer 2025 · Spring 2024
Digital Media Ethics (DTEM 4430) An overview of the ethical and social implications of data-driven society, covering the responsibilities of media professionals, the data lifecycle, and ethical dimensions of law enforcement, health care, and education. Syllabi: Spring 2024 · Spring 2023
Digital Property: Rights, Policies, and Practice (DTEM 2450) An examination of intellectual property in the digital environment, covering copyright, open licensing, free and open-source software, and the role of technology in regulating property rights. Syllabi: Summer 2021 · Spring 2020
Digital Media & Advocacy (DTEM 3475) Explores media use in social movements through theoretical and empirical literature, covering social media, political mobilization, media framing, collective identity, and civil disobedience. Syllabi: Fall 2019
Digital Resistance: Political Activism and Protest Online (Honors Program) A study of digital technology in political resistance, focusing on the everyday resistance of ordinary people and the ways the personal becomes political through digital networks. Syllabi: Fall 2021 · Fall 2020
Social Media & Civic Engagement (PMMA 5201) Explores the impact of emerging media on civic engagement, political processes, and social movements, combining theoretical seminars with practical analysis of internet-based campaigns. Syllabi: Spring 2018
University of Bergen
Critical Approaches to Technology & Society (DiKult 106) Taught during a Norwegian Fulbright at the University of Bergen. Explores the premise that technology is not neutral — that it shapes individual and collective behavior in ways that produce subcultures, countercultures, and social change. Syllabi: Fall 2023
UMass Boston
Communication & Social Mobilization (Comm 340) Syllabi: [Spring 2017] · [Fall 2015]
New Media & Society (Comm 200) Syllabi: Spring 2017 · Fall 2016
Privacy (Comm 480) Syllabi: Fall 2016 · Spring 2016
Hate Speech & Propaganda (Comm 380) Syllabi: Fall 2016
Media & Society (PCSCOR 350) Syllabi: [Fall 2016]
News Media & Political Power (Comm 365) Syllabi: Spring 2016
Political Communication (Comm 350) Syllabi: Fall 2015