YouTube. Facebook. Smartphones. Twitter. These and other new media channels and technologies are reconfiguring our identities and our relationships, our communities and our culture. They present new opportunities for collaboration and creativity, but also for surveillance and control. This graduate seminar will examine how various new media technologies are interacting with us as individuals and with society, particularly how we engage creatively with our culture and participate in civic life. Throughout, the course will place an emphasis on how the core themes of “networkability,” mobility, and privacy are interacting with the phenomena under study.  This blog represents part of our ongoing discussion about these issues.