COML 6861 - Genres, Platforms, Media

(crosslisted) PMA 6461

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with COML 4861/PMA 4461.

J. Monroe.

How do questions of genre persist and evolve in the age of digital media and A.I.? To what extent do we choose our genres, and in what ways do they choose us? How do genres, platforms, and media intersect and inform one another? What hierarchies do they establish, and to what purposes? Moving among a range of genres and sub-genres, poetry, fiction, film, and multimedia, websites and streaming services, this course will explore the accelerating interplay of genres, platforms, and media, and the increasingly pervasive role of A.I., in contemporary culture and politics.