IFS 2030 Fall 2018 Ned Stuckey

A revolution has occurred. The world is now digital. This course explores the implications of the digital revolution: what it means for the publishing industry, books, magazines, copyright, libraries, how we read and write, and how we organize ourselves as a society. This revolution has come swiftly and been sweeping. A little more than a decade ago there was no iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Pinterest, or Snapchat. We read, write and speak differently now than we did then, and this course will investigate those differences and what they might mean for our culture and our future.