Music, Internet, and Social Media

Innovations in media and technology accompany and contribute to fundamental changes in social and economic organization. Such shifts are often spoken of as revolutions, notably, recent digital or Internet revolution. Exploration of impact of Internet-based social media on ways in which people make music, connect through music, and live from music in diverse global contexts. Examination of how social media are social in new ways, and how they offer new potentials (and new limitations and challenges) for music. Examination of rise of Web 2.0; and exploration of how social media affects music in relation to artistic and creative work, affect and experience, livelihoods and remuneration, and music industries. Examination of both utopian and dystopian discourses in connection with music, Internet, and social media; and exploration of potential for marginalized people, as well as for corporate and political control.

P/NP or letter grading.