This course examines how digital media transforms feelings like rage and despair into propagandistic, addictive online content, and why this process has intensified as political participation decreases. Topics include, but are not limited to, populism, conspiracy thinking, and the search for individual and collective agency in a hypermediated age.

Antirequisite(s): MediaCom 3875F/G if taken in 2024-25.

Extra Information: 3 lecture hours.